A rare firenado has been captured tearing through Queensland as terrifying bushfires continue to rage across the east coast of Australia.
The shocking footage of the fire tornado shows it whipping around on Saturday as it moves across dry grassland in Bundamba in Ipswich.
The centre of a fire tornado can get up to 1093C as smoke and embers draw into the “chimney” of the fire. “As hot air rises from the ground, it forms vertical columns, or ‘chimneys’, until it becomes less dense, cools and then dissipates at higher altitudes,” writes Marc Lallanilla on“As more hot air is pulled into the rising column, it begins to swirl in a vortex, not unlike the vortex that’s formed when water drains from a bathtub.”Last year a firenado formed during the deadly Carr Fire in northern California.
It said the firenado was formed in much the same way as a regular tornado, which differs from the “fire whirls” that are formed only by heat from a wildfire.
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