VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA — CBS News reports that bushfires in Australia are burning so fiercely that they are creating pyrocumulonimbus clouds which are then creating thunderstorms. <br /><br />The Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria tweeted that the bushfires in East Grippland had triggered one such storm in a warning issued on Thursday last week. <br /><br />CBS News meteorologists say that bushfires heat the air so intensely that they could send ash upwards at a speed of 100 miles an hour or more.<br /><br />The updrafts can then cause ash and smoke to rise miles up into the atmosphere where cooler temperature causes water to condense into clouds.<br /><br />According to CBS News, freak storms like this could increase as our planet continues to heat up. <br /><br />According to CBS News, the more violent the bushfire, the faster the updraft and the more likely the clouds will form thunderstorms.<br /><br />Unlike normal storms, bushfire-caused storms do not result in much rain since the falling raindrops are evaporated by the heat from the fires raging below.<br /><br />CBS News warns that lightning strikes from these storms are far more likely to cause further bushfires due to the lack of rain.