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Post #4074561
2026-07-23 11:39 UTC
"The heat was such that even regions that experienced a relatively wet winter were baked dry just months later, study co-author Dominik Schumacher from ETH Zurich told journalists.
"If you have increasingly hot air, it will soak the soils dry. And then it gets even hotter, and the soils get even drier," he said. This rapid drying also primed the land for wildfires, he added."
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20260723-climate-change-has-intensified-europe-risk-of-drought-scientists-say
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 20:25
"French forces have joined operations near Bordeaux after blazes forced 110,000 to flee the south-west. In Spain, military units are leading efforts under a national emergency as merged fires near Madrid and Ávila displaced or confined 60,000 people." https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/24/wildfires-trigger-mass-evacuations-across-france-and-spain