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Large smoke cloud above the ground taken from a plane.

Thunder fire cloud over Kempsey

Flying back to Sydney I saw this dramatic mushroom cloud of bushfire smoke blooming through the thunderstorm clouds.
Terrifying … never been seen in Australia before a ‘fire tornado’. Taken on 26th November 2019.

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