Giant Mushroom Cloud Appears in Beijing (videos and pictures)

Looks like clouds at sunrise or sunset. Or maybe a huge plume of factory smoke that the sun's shining through. You'd see a lot of stuff that makes that look tame in comparison if you got up early enough in the morning.

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Zaibach

Alright, that looks much more convincing and troublesome

It looks like the start of Independance Day.....

Clearly it was simply one of these clouds passing through a large thunderstorm cell (all kinds of lighting strikes in the cell in video) at sunset.

C2N2

Clearly it was simply one of these clouds passing through a large thunderstorm cell (all kinds of lighting strikes in the cell in video) at sunset.

Cumulonimbus Cloud

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Clearly it was simply one of these clouds passing through a large thunderstorm cell (all kinds of lighting strikes in the cell in video) at sunset.

Qixote

No but clearly the plume of cloud coverage is extended above the "mushroom" and it being sunset, the suns rays are yellow-orange and coming in from the side, illuminating that upper plume... That coupled with the edges of the "mushroom" extending out from the lower plume create darkness given that there is no sun directly above them and thus that yellow-orange lit upper plume is shining bright in the upper darkness of the plume because there is no other contrast...

And they didn't claim this was caused by burning straw, they claimed the strange colored haze in the area was caused by burning straw in response to internet posters claiming a chemical plant exploded and/or steel plant exploded...

Giant mushroom-tip appears in Beijing? Calm down, Beijing. Five inches isn't giant. :P

the end of the world is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't see any mushroom cloud in those images. Looks like it's late evening/early morining with the sun rising and causing the sky to turn reddish pink.

lol China

Giant mushroom-tip appears in Beijing? Calm down, Beijing. Five inches isn't giant. :P

BluRayHiDef

Isn't a mushroom cloud supposed to be in the shape of a mushroom?kuraimen

maybe its the same cloud from The Last Airbender :P