As apocalyptic fires rage across France and Spain, experts have warned that an extremely dangerous ‘fire cloud’ is supercharging the devastating inferno.
More than 250,000 people have been evacuated as wildfires tear through southwest Europe, with wind and record-breaking heat fuelling the blaze.
The fire has become so intense that it is now generating its own weather phenomenon, known as a pyrocumulonimbus.
This towering cloud forms when an intense blaze pumps vast amounts of hot air, ash and smoke high into the atmosphere.
As the plume rises, it cools and moisture condenses to form a giant ‘fire cloud’ which generates strong, erratic winds that
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