Santa Clarita Acton Fire Smoke Plume Time lapse

[jcmegabyte]

As spectacular as these fire plumes can be, there's almost always some tragic event(s) associated with them... hopefully your losses weren't too bad..

[Jestus13]

I love how it turned unto a pyro-cumulus cloud at the top. I still have pics of it

[jcmegabyte]

I hear that really intense fires can produce pyrocumulus with lightning! I haven't ever seen it myself, but it would be an interesting capture :-)

[KWEKOSHKUKI12]

looks like a tornado when u think about it

[jcmegabyte]

Yea, it kinda does - thanks for checking it out!

[Evilfisher]

why do you enable adds, it fucks up the sound if you click just when the adds pop up

[marylynncleveland]

cool to see in time lapse.

[jcmegabyte]

I thought so too. One thing for sure, there will be more to film with all the fires we have here! Thanks for stopping by :-)

[Elleivier]

What happened?

[jcmegabyte]

This was a medium-sized forest/brush fire that broke out in the desert mountains nearby. The heat from the fire carried the smoke and water vapor up where it cooled and condensed into a cumulus cloud, called a "pyro-cumulus". Many forest fires do this, and I thought it would be interesting to time lapse it.

[123KOcris]

i hate these fires i wanted to move away

[jcmegabyte]

Yea, they are pretty scary sometimes. Hopefully this season won't be as bad.

[123KOcris]

exactly

[45Mang]

by the looks of it... its pretty fucking bad!

[oscccar1]

1 miljon people died that day:(

[TwoPointProductions]

wow this is really cool! was this the buckweed fire?

[jcmegabyte]

This one happened before the Buckweed fire - it was a much smaller fire near Acton, and I don't know that it was a named event. Thanks for watching :D

[TwoPointProductions]

huh, wow yeah that was a fun couple of months last year with all those fires, it was like the scv was in a ring of fire, everywhere you looked there was smoke and/or flames

[jcmegabyte]

We've certainly been getting pounded around here. Now it's time for the heavy rains and mudslides for a change. Maybe an earthquake or two. Enough with the fire disasters already! hahaha XD Welcome to CA!

[TwoPointProductions]

hahaha yeah! that little earthquake over the summer freaked me out! i was like 2 months old during the northridge one so luckily i cant remember it XD yep i love seeing people faces from out of state when they see a fire here, they freak out, but to ppl in socal, its just another fire season

[mttvluigi]

how do u make the sound? i tried ur site but i do not know where to go

[jcmegabyte]

All the music stuff is on the Technician music source page - there are 14 CD and DVD projects shown there - just pick a CD or DVD then click the links to the left of the tracks - You will need a sound card and a music (MP3) player application on your computer to hear the music. If you don't hear anything after following the lonks to the sites where the music is hosted, try asking a friend or your local computer nerd to help you get it to work. :-)

[theLonelyArtistClub]

I like it a lot!

[jcmegabyte]

Cool! - thanks for watching :-)

[etravus]

that's awesome

[jcmegabyte]

I thought it was interesting to see the cumulus form out of the smoke plume. Thanks for watching! :D

[supercellstorm]

Son Pyrocumulus!!! Fnatastic clouds!

[KevinMartinOWS]

It's called pyro-cumulus, and sometimes these fires can be so hot, the heat produces their own thunderstorms.

[jcmegabyte]

Wow - I didn't know they had an "official" name! Thanks for the info. I figured that low-level moisture and particulates could generate rain under the right conditions but thunder activity is a surprise. I thought ice crystals were necessary to generate the static charge. I've definitely seen the anvil formations before though, come to think of it. :)

[KevinMartinOWS]

If you think about it the ice crystals needed for the static charge is friction. The ash can act like friction and boom. Instant charge. They are scary when they can start new fires around it.

[jcmegabyte]

I've seen volcanic ash plumes supercharged with static and lightning, so that makes perfect sense!

[homiealex006]

i never saw it like this b4

[nayrusfire]

very interesting! i love the way the smoke kinda envolve in white :S so weird... i didnt know that happenned..

[jcmegabyte]

I thought it might be interesting to see it in fast motion. In REALLY hot fires, the smoke plume goes up into the stratosphere and levels-off in the upper winds, becoming an anvil-shape like Nimbus. Thanks for watching!