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Some wildfires are large enough and hot enough to create their own weather systems.
Scientists estimate that tens to hundreds of storms created by these blazes occur around the world each year. The trend of increasingly severe fires, fuelled by climate change, means that the number is likely to grow.
These wildfire-born storms are becoming a growing part of fire seasons around the world with lasting impacts on air quality, weather and climate. They also make wildfires extremely hot and chaotic, wreaking havoc on firefighting strategies.
Until now, experts have struggled to reproduce this weather phenomenon in their models.
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