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My state’s burnin’...click above to see this insane thing SPINNING.

From the Lava fire in California. You see one forming and dancing in the first minute, then a different (and scarier) one about 1:25. Every time I watch videos of these monsters, and we’ve seen several over the past three or four years, I’m totally amazed and I’m waiting for some horror movie to be released about these things.

This link is to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. Here’s a summary of the story published in the Washington Post:

Here’s a must-read story from the San Francisco Chronicle on two-and-a-half hours of survival and disaster as a fire tornado tore through Redding, Calif. during the Carr Fire last July. “The vortex of air ripped around a column of rising heat, flames licking its walls,” the story reads. “A freak of meteorology, it would annihilate everything in its path, uprooting trees and crumpling electrical towers. For the men and women who spend their summers on the fire lines, the tornado was an ominous glimpse of the extremes our warming climate will bring.”

How these “firenados” form: