#megafires

"When landscapes transition from a prolonged standard drought into a [hairdryer spell] – or when the two overlap – they create a “hyper-flammable” state. […] Combined, they cause the fire danger to skyrocket, setting the perfect stage for fast-spreading and intense wildfires." https://theconversation.com/flash-droughts-pull-alarming-amounts-of-moisture-from-the-landscape-and-intensify-wildfires-new-research-287879 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03809-9 #flammability #wildfires #megafires #climateChange

The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first pyrocumulonimbus France has ever seen. There was the largest firefighting mobilisation in EU history, and the destruction broke records anyway: https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories/news/eu-deploys-largest-ever-wildfire-response-2026-summer-2026-06-02_en #climatePolicy #adaptation #megafires #wildfires #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #firefighting #firefighters #France #EUPol #policy