Time to relate #uqxpol radar data to bushfire long distance spotting… pic.twitter.com/fiiqFdJJBB
— Nicholas McCarthy (@mccarthy_nfm) February 29, 2016
Looking at this tweet and the video, Nicholas McCarthy is saying embers from the Mt. Bolton Fire in Victoria, Australia caused a spot fire five kilometers (3.1 miles) away from the main fire.
Mr. McCarthy is working on the Bushfire Convective Plume Experiment based out of the University of Queensland studying extreme fire weather with portable radar.
On February 23 the researchers shot the following time-lapse video of the smoke plume from the Mt. Bolton Fire.
The fire was burning furiously while the video was being filmed, but in a day or two it ran out of heavy fuel and was corralled by firefighters.
Below is a photo showing shorter-range spotting on the Mt. Bolton Fire.
