![]() ![]() Since the start of the first heatwave which hit Spain on June 11, dozens of wildfires across 23 provinces have been battled by firefighters.Ī forest fire raging across the Sierra de la Culebra in Zamora province, northwestern Spain in mid-June destroyed more than 30,000 hectares before it was brought under control, becoming the largest fire seen in Spain in twenty years.Īnother fire broke out nearby in the province in mid-July, claiming the life of a firefighter and a shepherd and continues to burn. So far this summer more than close to 200,000 hectares has been scorched by flames according to the latest figures from Spain’s, European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) on July 22. While three huge fires continue to rage in Burgos, Zamora and Avila provinces of Castilla y Leon, new fires have broken out in Andalucia, Valencia and Castilla-La Mancha. Story by Kathryn Hansen.WILDFIRES are raging across Spain in what is already the worst year for blaze devastation in at least a decade.Ī map produced by Nasa using satellite images from space is able to pinpoint in real time the burning areas of Spain. Geological Survey, and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, Landsat data from the U.S. Actual measurements of physical properties, like temperature, moisture, and winds, are routinely folded into the model to keep the simulation as close to observed reality as possible. The GEOS model, like all weather and climate models, uses mathematical equations that represent physical processes (such as precipitation and cloud processes) to calculate what the atmosphere will do. The darkest red areas are where air temperatures were 36☏ (20☌) higher than the 2014-2020 average for the same day. The map is derived from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model and depicts air temperatures at 2 meters (about 6.5 feet) above the ground. The map above shows air temperature anomalies across the western United States and Canada on June 29, 2021. local time (19:00 Universal Time) on June 30, 2021.The natural-color image was overlaid with shortwave-infrared light to highlight the active fire. The second image (below) shows a detailed view of the McKay Creek fire, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 at about 12 p.m. The clouds are a mixture of brown smoke and white ice, so they show up whiter than the dry smoke plumes to the west of each fire. According to Michael Fromm, a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory, these are the onset of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds-towering clouds created by the convection and heat rising from a fire. ![]() Notice the bright white areas over the two larger fires. A smaller fire is visible just south of the town of Lytton. By the morning of July 1, the McKay Creek fire (left) and the Sparks Lake fire (right) had burned an estimated 150 and 200 square kilometers (60 and 75 square miles), respectively. local time (21:00 Universal Time) on June 30, 2021. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite acquired this image (above) around 2 p.m. More than 40 wildfires were burning across the Canadian province by the end of June 2021, including a cluster of substantial blazes located about 200 kilometers northeast of Vancouver. So far in 2021, British Columbia has already seen dangerous wildfires and heat. ![]()
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