smoke plume
Billowing airborne trail
A smoke plume is the visible column of smoke rising from a fire, smokestack, or other combustion source.
The term appears frequently in wildfire reporting and air quality discussions: The smoke plume extended fifty miles downwind.
Meteorologists track smoke plumes to predict where particulates will affect breathing conditions.
- billowSwell outward with air
- columnVertical structural element
- risingAct of ascending
- ashCombustion's powdery remains
- fire damageDestruction from flames
burning building · chimney · exhaust · haze · wisp · drift · curl · gray · tower · stack · emission · fumes · air quality · volcanic · signal · trail · cloud · smolder
- volcanoesvolcano, volcanic eruption, Mount Fuji, volcanic eruptions, caldera
- Wildfireswildfire, grass fire, surface fire, spot fire, fire front
- smoke
- ephemeral shapescloud, bubble, ripple, wave, snowflake
- plumesfeather, quill, marabou, aigrette
- electrosurgeryelectrosurgery, cautery, cauterization, electrocoagulation, monopolar
smoke plumeflame
Burning gas made visible
fire · blaze · conflagration · inferno · ember
smoke plumeclear sky
Atmosphere without clouds
fresh air · clean air · blue sky · unpolluted air · transparency
smoke, plume, smokes, smoked, smoking, smoker, smokers, smoky, smokiness