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French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
- verzali 3mo agoThe situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 miles from the edge of the city.
- toomuchtodo 3mo agoWhat resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?
- msk-lywenn 3mo agoIt’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/ https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/
- verzali 3mo agoNASA FIRMS is good for tracking where the fire is. As well as the site another user recommended, I was following this one: https://feuxgironde.fr/ https://feuxgironde.fr/
- expedition32 3mo ago[flagged]
- jaynetics 3mo agoI also left yesterday. I thought the mood was still surprisingly calm, considering that there was already enough smoke in the city to make it look like a foggy winter day and smell heavily of campfire. Now I am wondering if my return flight from Bordeaux in a few days will actually happen. Currently the airport is still operating, although the surrounding area has been evacuated. It really looks apocalyptic there, though: https://static.actu.fr/uploads/2026/07/aeroport-bordeaux-fumee-incendie-gironde-960x640.jpg https://static.actu.fr/uploads/2026/07/aeroport-bordeaux-fum...
- TacticalCoder 3mo agoHad to evacuate a few years ago: south-west of France. We could see 20 meters high burning flames on the closest hill. But weirdly enough it wasn't the most terrifying: the most terrifying was driving back (to the same place) at night time, in the summer, and feeling like it was snowing... for ashes from a huge fire about 20 kilometers away (?) were raining down the sky and covering everything. I could hardly see the road and didn't understand at first what was happening.
- orwin 3mo agoIt impacted the north of Bordeaux too. from Thursday to saturday, a lot of small fields/forest in Charente/Charente maritime started to catch fire because of the embers. The smoke was also so dense it completly modified the local climate and fucked up the wind prevision (i know because i was suppose to wingfoil all afternoon saturday and we had no wind until like 18-19), also dropping the temperature 2-3C (150km away). Good luck, and stay safe.
- nianderwallace 3mo agoThese train workers in northern Ontario had an intense view of a wildfire up close. I would have freaked out. They're acting like there's a cute animal on tracks. see https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/train-cab-wildfire-armstrong-9.7271351 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/train-cab-wildfir... [edit] other video links in case the first link isn't viewable outside Canada. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc16INKNq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc16INKNq0 or https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qAerRqQQHAM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qAerRqQQHAM
- ludicrousdispla 3mo ago"ah, we're encased in flames here, eh?"
- jojomodding 3mo agoThis video is so insane. They're in a combustion engine. I can not fathom why they survived let alone managed to drive out of this. Trains are not build for fire resistance.
- a-french-anon 3mo agoI'm 500 km away in Hérault and this morning was a tad hazy with smoke from there! Impressive I'd say.
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- mingus88 3mo agoEveryone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them Never let them live this down
- jauntywundrkind 3mo agoI think part of why the right keeps getting more brazen, more anti-reality, anti-science, anti-education, anti-school, anti-democracy is that so many of their numbers are coming due. Disinformation isn't working, as the problems mount, so animosity/overdrama/anger and anti-information are the routes left to them now, as Titanic walls of flame engulf the world in their wake. Bush II dismantled NASA's mission statement to monitor the world, for example. This is not a new foe, and I have not forgotten. https://www.ucs.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-statement https://www.ucs.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-sta...
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- wat10000 3mo agoWhat science is that going against?
- edhelas 3mo agohttps://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005 https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005 Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026. "investigation into environmental alarmists"
- ColdStream 3mo ago
- superkuh 3mo agoThere's a good chance that conflagrations during WWII generated such clouds. There are well established incidents of such in Germany (and Japan) (ref: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/91/9/2010bams3004_1.pdf https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/91/9/2010bam... , Hamburg, Dresden, etc) but nothing for certain in France. The British attacks on Royan which destroyed 85% of it with high explosive and napalam would be the most likely site.
- vouaobrasil 3mo ago[flagged]
- nerdsniper 3mo agoI feel like this would be much less of an issue if the datacenters were all fully solar+battery powered.
- mistrial9 3mo agohello from California -- in 2017 three thousand homes burned (Santa Rosa) .. the damage totals are easy to look up.. The skies over San Francisco were so black that the sun was barely an orange dot. I am fully sympathetic to the people in France and elsewhere. This part of the world suffers from wildfire also.
- vouaobrasil 3mo agoWhat I was referring to were the elite benefitting from AI the most. Even if their house burns up, they likely have enough money to just buy a new (maybe cheaper) one somewhere else and retire. Obviously, not everyone in California is like that - I was referring to those who are getting huge salaries at tech corporations. But it's a lot different for a poorer person to lose their home than a super rich one.
- jryle70 3mo agoPeople also stupidly watch soccer games such as World Cup, go on meaningless vacations, eat out when they can cook at home, argue nonsense on online forums such as HN. Sure those activities aren't "encouraging more consumerism and more CO2 output"?
- cineticdaffodil 3mo agoActually- when you take it standalone- e-activities, that lead to little else consumed, are quite ideal. You will never get the budhist monk, meditating on a rock out of normal people, but somebody sittings there, playing a game for hours on a glowing rock, is as close to nilwanna as it gets. So thank you gamedevs out there for creating this.
- ynac 3mo agoJust had the same here in Washington state for the Little Giant fire. Great image in the article. We had another fire cloud behind Rainier the other day, and saw it from the Rount Mainier farm - it really looked like the volcano was smoking up and ready to top-off. <clench> https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little-giant-fires-pyrocumulus-cloud-rises-east-of-seattle/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little...
- eikenberry 3mo agohttps://archive.is/20260725052942/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little-giant-fires-pyrocumulus-cloud-rises-east-of-seattle/ https://archive.is/20260725052942/https://www.seattletimes.c...
- loeg 3mo ago"East" of Seattle is certainly one way to describe it (100 miles east).
- whoamii 3mo agoTaylor Swift recently got married east of Seattle
- rhyperior 3mo agoAnd, technically, west of Seattle.
- t-writescode 3mo agoWould you feel weird with someone saying 100 miles North of Miami, 100 miles Sourth of Orlando, 100 miles west of Huston, 100 miles South of Chicago?
- kortilla 3mo agoIf they left of the distance yes.
- touwer 3mo ago[flagged]
- cineticdaffodil 3mo agoSo, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?
- sunshine-o 3mo agoThey should go negative because the gigantic amount of CO2 being released right now because of the obvious incompetence of the authorites is criminal.
- pibaker 3mo agoBold to assume that buying emission offsets actually leads to anything tangible being done.
- stinkbeetle 3mo agoIt fills the pockets of grifters.
- bigfatkitten 3mo agoSaving the environment with Microsoft Excel.
- ColdStream 3mo agoA lot of the more realistic environmentalists very quickly figured out that it was nothing more than an accounting trick. Greta Thunberg announces she has gone 'net-zero' on swearing after 'f-bomb' furore - https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/greta-thunberg-announces-gone-net-22053969 https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/greta-t...
- juujian 3mo agoNope, read a couple stories about climate credits over the years, and this is a problem. The credits are permanent, even if the new grown forest burns down.
- Dylan16807 3mo ago
- pelasaco 3mo agoThat's remember me of https://www.france24.com/en/20190824-macron-france-brazil-bolsonaro-amazon-fires https://www.france24.com/en/20190824-macron-france-brazil-bo...
- marcosdumay 3mo agoUnsurprisingly, that was just propaganda from some rich locals protecting their market power. What was really surprising was the number of people around here asking some army to come murder Brazilians. But then, it's real that Bolsonaro was criminally negligent on fire-avoidance. What we will discover next year is how much of it could be avoided at all.
- throw-the-towel 3mo agoWow, the audacity of that guy. When is the rest of the world sanctioning France for these fires?
- ceejayoz 3mo ago> So far this year, there have been 76,720 forest fires in Brazil -- the highest number since 2013, official figures show, with more than half in the Amazon rainforest. https://incendieencours.fr/en/incendies https://incendieencours.fr/en/incendies says 17 ongoing and 92 recent in France. I can't promise they count the same way, but… the motive's also substantially different: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgxv8n7wd0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgxv8n7wd0o > Most fires here are illegally started by humans, according to scientists, the Federal Police, and the government: loggers and miners looking to exploit land in the Amazon, or farmers turning it into pasture.
- tcp_handshaker 3mo agoIf you the are in the area and hesitating to evacuate, or if you want to realize what terrible phenomenon you are you facing. Watch this great documentary about the tragedy that unfolded in Portugal a few years ago. Leave now. "Witness to Disaster | National Geographic" - https://youtu.be/clTeqIpGBeU https://youtu.be/clTeqIpGBeU https://youtu.be/clTeqIpGBeU?t=1734 https://youtu.be/clTeqIpGBeU?t=1734
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- dolmen 3mo agoAt 12:00 pyrocumulus is explained. At 29:00 pyrocumulonimbus is explained.
- LtWorf 3mo ago[flagged]
- sunshine-o 3mo agoAlso I can understand fires in gigantic forests in Canada or mountainous area are almost impossible to prevent but just looking at the Gironde/Bordeaux area on Google Maps it just looks like an absolute failure by the state. And this is not an earthquake, it happens every years at the same time. It is too easy to blame climate change.
- well_ackshually 3mo agoThey repeatedly underspent on hardware (bought 2 canadairs instead of 4 to replace aging ones), people (last time the firemen protested for a higher budget, they were tear gassed by the police), forest management (cut off the budget of the forest management agency), enforcement (private forest owners have to introduce fire cut lines into their parcels, which they didn't do. Forest management agency has nobody to spare to go verify that they did, and even when that happens, it takes years to be judged, or the government drops the case), ecology as a whole, and the list goes on. But don't worry, it's not just about fires. The same can be said about pretty much everything they've done.
- throw-the-towel 3mo agoAnd meanwhile the taxes go up, and up, and up.
- vitally3643 3mo agoForest fires are possible to prevent most of the time. We lack the political will to do controlled burns. And climate change is making them worse.
- ares623 3mo agoOne of the biggest lies is that these events will only happen (or will happen first) to the "global south" and only affect the "other peoples". Unfortunately for us, the Earth has no preferences and doesn't run on our schedule.
- nolok 3mo agoI don't know where you live or where you heard that but it is not a lie that was told in france at least. If you want a "lie", it was how far in the future that was going to happen, but that's mostly because the deniers got control of the messaging for a long time.
- ColdStream 3mo agoHere is the image/tweet that will live on for a long while regarding the accelerated timeline. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F37159x719j9h1.jpeg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F3...
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agoon average, 240k acres burn every year in Spain. this is somewhat larger, but not abnormal. it's just near people this time.
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agoI guess I need a disclaimer on every comment that says "climate change is obviously real you can save your downvotes"
- yongjik 3mo agoI know it's a cold and cynical take, but if it has to happen somewhere, better for it to happen in Europe, the US, or other developed countries. These countries can at least do something to keep climate crisis from getting worse. (Or... more realistically, to keep it from getting worse too fast.)
- j1elo 3mo agoSpain is also completely on fire - there's a website that collects all official information and locates every fire on a map: https://incendiosespaña.es/ https://xn--incendiosespaa-2nb.es/ (in Spanish) It is disheartening to see how everything is basically in red.
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agospain loses ~240,000 acres to wildfire every year. this is larger than normal, but fire is normal there
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- darkwater 3mo agoThis sounds like a climate change denier statement: Spain has always been hot, lately is a bit hotter than usual but it's normal to have hot weather there.
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agowhat am I denying? some people were under the impression that wildfire is a totally novel thing in Spain. I'm only pointing out that fairly large wildfires happens every year, but that this one is larger than normal. I guess I need a disclaimer on every comment that says "climate change is obviously real you can save your downvotes" jfc
- kuu 3mo agoYes, Spain has fires every year, but this time is different: 240,000 acres is about 97,000 hectares. By July 26, Spain had already lost more than 150,000 hectares, or around 371,000 acres, six times the area burned by the same point last year...
- tjwebbnorfolk 3mo agoYes that's what I meant by "this one is larger than normal"
- Dibby053 3mo agoFor context on why this region is burning so easily: the Landes and Médoc are huge, artificial pine forests created in the 19th century under Napoleon III to drain and reclaim what was considered an inhospitable wetland, where shepherds famously walked around on stilts. Pine resin and needle litter makes it exceptionally flammable, and being an uninterrupted monoculture on flat land it lacks natural barriers to stop the fire from advancing.
- artisinal 3mo agoMight be time to revert it back to wetland.
- ColdStream 3mo agoSounds like a good plan to me. Probably a dozen reasons why we cannot that I am unaware of, but from my arm chair it looks good.
- coldbrewed 3mo agoThe water was likely redirected for agricultural purposes and the farmers won't/can't surrender it on top of drought, if it's anything like the US. Would be real cool if we could make investments like this though.
- jcattle 3mo agoIn this case no, all the water is drained. I don't think meaningful amounts are retained for agriculture.
- svara 3mo agoThe pine forest is the agriculture.
- phoronixrly 3mo ago
- chewbacha 3mo agoI’m sure if we build a few more AI data centers the world will cool down and we’ll stop having all these fires. Just a few more GPUs ought to fix it.
- ballsac 3mo ago[dead]
- ColdStream 3mo agoI always though it would be funny if we actually did manage to get to super AGI, we then ask it "How can we save the future for us?" It thinks for a few days, cross comparing everything in written history and then comes back with only a single sentence. "Love the Earth and life like you love yourselves." Then it goes quiet not answering anything else.
- lnsru 3mo agoThe AGI’s conclusion will be simpler: humanity extinction. I am renovating my home and digging out the perimeter. Despite pavements being decades old I still find thrash buried around the house. Other houses in the neighborhood has the same problem. Relatives bought a villa near Bordeaux. Guess what, previous owners buries many cubic meters of asbestos under the entrance. AGI will not save few ones picking their litter for the majority of environmental pigs.
- zahlman 3mo ago> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoGoogle Maps provides overlays for wildfires and air quality. I can watch Western Europe from here.
- jobigoud 3mo agoJust a point about precision, Google Maps fire overlay is based on NASA Firms + some processing, and it's not perfectly accurate. It is currently marking my little town as under fire / burned down, but it's not and hasn't been so far. (north west front of the fire, next to the lake). It looks like their contouring algorithm is very greedy and any hot spot marked in the past few days has become part of their fire perimeter. The massive fire clouds probably contribute to the difficulty of measuring ground temperature from satellite.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agohttps://support.google.com/maps/answer/9985621#zippy=%2Csources-for-wildfire-information https://support.google.com/maps/answer/9985621#zippy=%2Csour...
- donohoe 3mo ago67 comments. One mention of “climate crisis” (appropriate), 3 of “climate credits”. No one here is really discussing “climate change”. Is it denial, or just that we’ve accepted the obvious?
- Aboutplants 3mo agoI truly think it’s because we are in the “Find out” phase and most people have very little hope (justifiably) in anything meaningful actually occurring that can prevent or mitigate climate change even a little bit.
- ballsac 3mo ago[dead]
- ColdStream 3mo agoIt is also fairly disheartening to see a lot of proposed responses just quietly get shelved because it was economically not idea on the short term. A lot of them were fairly weak to begin with and even they couldn't hold. I don't think it will be grim forever, this isn't "DOOOOMED, WE ARE ALL DOOMED!" but I am not holding out for the Frutiger Aero future of only a few decades back.
- lazystar 3mo agoacceptance; the problems identified. efforts now should focus on innovative solutions that dont rely on nation state investment.
- derriz 3mo agoWhy? The vast majority of fossil fuel production globally is through state-owned companies.
- lazystar 3mo agoin the 1800's, were the vast majority of horses produced through state owned companies? that process was upended by human ingenuity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz begging governments to solve the problem has obviously failed; focusing our efforts on fostering ideas and inventions is our best hope at getting our of this mess.
- senderista 3mo agoI will be surprised if the climate crisis doesn’t eventually escalate to the point where basically everyone agrees that geoengineering of some kind is worth the risk.
- ColdStream 3mo agoI think the only reason it doesn't come to this is the risk of liability over possible blow backs. Say they start sulfur injection or whatever, and a year later there are crop failures in India. While it could have happened anyway, there is now a plausible chance that it can be pinned on who ever did the geoengineering. The amount of scapegoating on any climate issue would be wild.
- rasz 3mo agoCould start with Sulphur spray into atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio... Wonder how much 2020 Bunker Fuel ban contributed.
- kergonath 3mo agoYay, acid rains.
- Ma8ee 3mo agoOne of the many problems with limiting the amount of sunlight reaching Earth is that it reduces plant growth worldwide. This would not only decrease agricultural output, with the obvious consequences for food production, but also reduce the amount of carbon absorbed and stored by growing vegetation. Which of course wouldn't help.
- Cthulhu_ 3mo agoAnd reduce evaporation, which reduces moisture in the air, which reduces rainfall, etc. I don't know what I'm talking about and already think messing with the weather in any way is a Bad Idea.
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- moralestapia 3mo ago>it is a war-like scenario where we are under constant bombardment and must get everyone to safety Thank you for your service everyone, these are real life heroes like the ones you see on Star Wars movies but real.
- falloon 3mo agoPedantic cloud enjoyer here, the article should name this a pyrocumulus not pyrocumulonimbus - the nimbus part means 'rain-bearing' in meteorology, fire clouds don't rain.
- realslimjd 3mo agoTo be fair, it's not the article that's the problem. Pyrocumulonimbus is the accepted scientific name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_flammagenitus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_flammagenitus.
- byte_0 3mo agoThanks for the article. However, the article mentions that they might involve precipitation.
- margalabargala 3mo agoYes, they might. The grandparent comment of this thread in multiple different ways, not just the name.
- margalabargala 3mo agoThe term used by the UK Royal Meteorological Society is pyrocumulonimbus: https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/pyrocumulonimbus-clouds https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/pyrocumulonimbus-clouds
- imoverclocked 3mo agoIt rains ash. While it’s a metaphorical use of “rain” it’s physically accurate.
- julienchastang 3mo agoIncorrect. These fires basically create their own weather systems. All that smoke also contains a lot of water in the material that is burning. (That makes sense. They are trees, after all.) When the smoke reaches high enough in the atmosphere the smoke cools and water can precipitate out (rain) and also lightning potentially producing more fires.
- locusm 3mo agoWe get these in the Australian bushfire season, the weather systems they create can flip a 10 tonne fire appliance. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/volunteer-firefighter-samuel-mcpaul-died-when-fire-tornado-overturned-10-tonne-truck https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/31/volun...
- holografix 3mo ago“Australia enters the chat”
- PAndreew 3mo agoI hope I'm not the only one who wanted to check PyPi to see what package is this... '-.-
- uwagar 3mo agothis package drops u in the line of fire.
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- wosk 3mo agoLe Monde, very reputed French newspaper (NYtimes equivalent for France perhaps) says that it’s not the first time this cloud is seen in France [1]: (translation mine) > “What is happening right now is extremely, extremely unusual. Seeing a cloud this massive and reaching such an altitude above a wildfire is exceptionally rare,” the researcher explains. “During the Pedrógão fire [which claimed around 60 lives in Portugal in 2017], there were two episodes of fire-induced thunderstorms. Here, we are already at eight or ten, and the forecast is not encouraging at all.” Although unprecedented in both intensity and frequency, the phenomenon has been observed in France before, according to the expert: during the Fontainebleau wildfire (Seine-et-Marne) in July, the Ribaute fire (Aude) in 2025, and the Générac fire (Gard) in 2019. It seems that this cloud and the attached storms have been seen before, even recently, in France, but this one is one of a kind for intensity, by far. [1] https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2026/07/27/le-pyrocumulonimbus-l-orage-de-feu-qui-rend-l-incendie-en-gironde-si-imprevisible-c-est-un-miracle-qu-il-n-y-ait-pas-encore-eu-de-mort_6733570_3244.html https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2026/07/27/le-pyrocum...
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- Loquebantur 3mo agoWhat is indicative of escalating climate catastrophe is indeed the intensity and frequency of those firestorms, not any lack of precedent for a cloud shape. But the really salient observation is how people individually and their social system as a whole react (or not). Debating the shapes of clouds points to a fundamental dysfunctional disconnect on multiple levels.
- Galanwe 3mo ago> What is indicative of escalating climate catastrophe is indeed the intensity and frequency of those firestorms I don't think we have the data that proves this theory (which of course doesn't mean that the theory is wrong), because the vast majority of these fires are man-made, not natural disasters. This year's Fontainebleau wildfires were caused by 1) a deranged person ligthning bushes and drenching them with fuel 2) a simple minded person throwing a cigaret but in bushes during a heat wave... The huge wildfire in the south some years ago was caused by a similarly simple minded dude that caried his alight barbecue from one place to another on the back of his pickup truck (creating a dozen wildfires in the process along the road).
- tonyhart7 3mo agofire force
- jcattle 3mo agoJust an aside: I'm a researcher trying to classify forest disturbance types from satellite imagery. The Landes Forest which is currently burning is really interesting in that you have all 4 of the major European disturbance types there: Human clear cuts, storm damage, large scale insect infestation and fire. Most other forested areas in Europe only have two or three of these. For example most of the Mediterranean does not have meaningful amount of storm damage. Just shows how badly suited the Landes Forest with its current forest management is in todays climate.
- baxtr 3mo agoInteresting. Have you tried back testing your model agains fire data to analyze how well you could predict fire likelihood?
- jcattle 3mo agoNo, at the moment classifying disturbances is only done retrospective. Predicting fire likelihood is its own large area of research. An open case is more in terms of temperate forests which are increasingly starting to burn, for example in Austria or other central European countries. These tend to be understory fires, which (for now) only rarely catch the crown. For these fires the tree crown stays green and you can't see any change until later in the year or the next year, where the trees die due to damage the fire did to their cambium and roots. Correctly attributing this later decline to fire damage is a bit challenging.
- madaxe_again 3mo agoThe Landes Forest is a human disturbance. The whole damned thing was planted in the 1850s as an enormous pine plantation. Same thing as drives wildfires in Portugal - maritime pine (and in Portugal’s case eucalyptus). Vast, dense, barely managed pyrophytic monocultures. The problem isn’t poorly managed forest, it’s the forest, period - it shouldn’t be there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_forest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_forest
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- TurdF3rguson 3mo agoIt reminds me of that French fire-fighter who threw caution to the wind in rescuing me and my precious cat Lulu from our flat when it was engulfed in flames. He sadly perished in that fire but I will never forget him. I can't recall his name but I think he had a mustache.
- ratsimihah 3mo ago> This smoke cloud generates its own weather system Fascinating, we’ve got sentient clouds before sentient AI
- hncsiocp9x 3mo ago[dead]
- shafyy 3mo agoIn other news, July 23 has recorded the busiest flight day ever with over 150k flights: https://simpleflying.com/over-150000-flights-airlines-busiest-day-recorded-history/ https://simpleflying.com/over-150000-flights-airlines-busies...
- pvaldes 3mo agoLets have a resume: Biggest wildfire in the history of Spain: 2026 Biggest wildfire in the modern history of Norway: 2026 Biggest wildfire in Austria: 2026 Biggest wildfire in Germany: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Denmark: 2025 Biggest wildfire in UK: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Montenegro: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Serbia: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Albania: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Bulgaria: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Malta: 2025 Biggest wildfire in Ukraine: 2024 Biggest wildfire in USA: 2024 Biggest wildfire in Greece: 2023 Biggest wildfire in Switzerland: 2023 Biggest wildfire in Czechia: 2022 Biggest wildfire in Slovenia: 2022 Biggest wildfire in Italy: 2021 Biggest wildfire in Turkey: 2021 Biggest wildfire in Poland: 2020 Biggest wildfire in Ireland: 2020 Plus some special honorary mentions for some of the largest wildfires in: - France: 2026 - Lithuania: 2026, - Estonia: 2026. - Cyprus: 2025 Almost every European country and USA suffered the biggest wildfires in their whole history in the same period as the Ukraine war. France still can sing bingo. Almost there. Hungary on the other hand, suffered their biggest wildfire in 2012. One hurrah for Hungary. And Croatia in 2017, congratulations. I wonder what is different to the other countries here. They must clean their forests really good.