“Severe drought and strong dry winds in Sao Paolo have caused a rare fire tornado in the northwest city of Aracatuba. A three month drought in the region has led to brush fires across Brazil, creating the conditions for the fire tornado. Fire tornados, also known colloquially as fire devils, happen when a fire acquires a vertical rotating column of air. Some can be more than a half a mile tall and contain winds over 100 mph.

In 1923, Great Kanto earthquake in Japan, ignited a firestorm that raged through the city and produced a gigantic fire tornado that killed 38,000 in 15 minutes in the Hifukusho-Ato region of Tokyo.”

Read more at The Telegraph (Thanks @whispywolf)

COMMENTS

August 31, 2010 at 8:33 am

Dude says:

Should be easy to reproduce on studio…

August 31, 2010 at 6:10 pm

Jess xxx says:

Just another example of nature being beautiful but deadly.

August 31, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Daniel Gilbert says:

That’s why I like English weather- it might be miserable, but it rarely tries to kill you.

September 1, 2010 at 11:53 pm

bruno says:

the air here in sao paulo is very dry nowdays. it does not rain for days and weeks.but people dont say the wather tries to kill us , it is very rare to this happen

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