Awesome time lapse video of the LA wild fires making their own weather, as the ash clouds spike with convection.

http://www.brandonriza.com/Video/HTML/ZeroPercentContained.html

 

Yeah, doesn't it? I always knew volcanoes did this, but never though of forest fires so much.

Hell, the clouds from volcanoes can have lightning in them and even below freezing temperatures.

Here's a stunning photo taken from the International Space Station, of Russia's Sarychev Peak erupting earlier this year. Amazing.