On a hot, windy day, this is not what any rural resident wishes to see through the trees. Since Oklahoma doesn’t have volcanoes, the nature of this flammagenitus cloud formation (big pyrocumulus, atop a smoke plume) was easy to guess on a record-hot summer day. Pyrocumulus formation would continue through the rest of daylight. Though the fire stayed a few miles east of us, it immediately threatened some friends’ homes on its two-day rampage through a swath from eastern areas of Noble and Norman to the southern end of Lake Thunderbird.
Norman OK (3 Aug 12) Looking SE