File:Firestorm cloud over Hiroshima, near local noon. Aug 6 1945.jpg
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Summary
For decades this image was commonly misidentified as the mushroom cloud of the Little Boy bomb that formed around 8:15 AM local time. However due to its greater height and the wholly different time of day, it is a pyrocumulus* cloud that occurs frequently over firestorms.
- A Pyrocumulonimbus cloud(PyroCb) is another superior, although not widely accepted, meteorological classification.
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US military.
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| current | 01:20, 14 March 2021 | | 887 × 717 (149 KB) | Thales (talk | contribs) | For decades this image was commonly misidentified as the mushroom cloud of the Little Boy bomb that formed around 8:15 AM local time. However due to its greater height and the wholly different time of day, it is a pyrocumulus* cloud that occurs frequen... |
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