The Northwest part of the US is burning down. Over a million acres, over 400 square miles, have gone up in smoke, mostly from lightning strikes. If you click on this photo, you'll be able to see a forest fire in the foreground, another fire a couple of ridges behind that one with a secondary portion of it to the far left, and behind Mt. Jefferson is a HUGE fire--that's not regular clouds behind the mountain, it's smoke, with the tendrils of clouds rising up behind that. Taken from the slopes of Mt. Hood; July, 2014.