Skylapse.org: 2009 Station Fire (LA, CA)

Brandon Riza provides this stunning lapse of the Station Fire near Los Angeles in 2009. This is perhaps the best illustration of pyrocumulus formation you'll find on the web. A lapse of the pyrocumulus tops can be found in this video.

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.