Dry lightning strikes have been blamed for causing a number of bushfires across Victoria. But what's the difference between dry and wet lightning?

Donna Andrews lost her house in a bushfire in 2020. She says the mental health challenges from living through a ...

Some of the fires in southern Australia, many of which were sparked by dry lightning, produced pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which then spawned their own thunderstorms near the fire grounds, the ...

Australia is enduring a dynamic mix of severe weather this week, with flooding rain, bushfires, heatwaves, severe thunderstorms, and two severe tropical cyclones. So, what is making this week’s ...

The animation below shows the convection and bushfire smoke across the states southwest Sunday. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud also formed over one of the major bushfires, with the intense heat causing hot ...

As the cloud goes "bubbling" into the air ... like several chimney bursts in the life of that individual pyrocumulonimbus. So, on the ground, what that means is that fire is pulsating in a ...