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This firenado started on burning farmland in Chillicothe, Missouri, in 2014. Shooting flames can stretch 100 ft (30 m) into the sky. If hot air moves rapidly towards cooler air, it can generate a spiralling vortex (whirlwind). This can happen during a storm, causing a tornado. But a

Twisting flames leap high into the air
winds. When two of nature’s fiercest
create firenadoes (“fire tornadoes”).
In the line of
Beware blazing fires and whirling
in a dangerous spectacle that can
foes strike at the same time, they
firenadoes

quickly get out of control.
Science struggles to explain the regular occurrence of fireballs exploding from the Mekong River in Thailand. Locals believe that hundreds of “Naga fireballs” are released from the mouth of Naga, a legendary snake said to haunt the waters.

FIREBALL FRENZY

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