updraft

However, strong winds lifted him off the ground and grew even stronger, until he encountered the updraft that shot him up into the clouds.

It’s also true that the downdraft and updrafts have even inspired suspicions that White House insiders with advance word of the announcements are trading stocks on the knowledge, though no such evidence has emerged.

As a blaze heats the air above it, it can create updrafts powerful enough to form huge pyrocumulative clouds in the sky above.

This is the place to see people jump off a cliff, then rise on the updraft.

On the other hand, the strong updrafts can catch hold of burning embers, lofting them into unburned material, where they can produce “spot fires” up to several miles away from the fireline.