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2026-07-14 11:15 UTC

"Just 70 kilometres (43.5 miles) from Paris, the Fontainebleau wildfire forced the closure of the A6 highway linking Paris with Lyon and the south, and, for the first time in the Greater Paris area, the dispatch of air assets to contain the blaze which turned the skies black. Smaller fires in the area also disrupted high-speed train services. The death toll from last week's devastating wildfire in Spain's southern province of Almeria reached 13." https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/france-sends-water-bombers-tackle-wildfire-outside-paris-2026-07-13/

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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2026-07-21 12:49

More heat. "An unforgiving atmospheric furnace is setting its sights on the Iberian Peninsula, with an excessive heatwave threatening to push temperatures into a staggering and potentially record-shattering 45 to 47 °C range this week. As a stubborn heat dome of high pressure anchors itself over southwestern Europe, Spain is bracing for what meteorologists warn could be one of the most intense and dangerous early-summer thermal anomalies in recent history." https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/extreme-heatwave-excessive-heat-dome-spain-portugal-iberia-europe-july-2026-mk/

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