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> ‘We can only pray now,” said one campaigner pointing to a risk of a dam burst on the Solzana River where a bride had been swept away already. I'm really hoping it's a bridge that was swept away. That's obviously still terrible, but not quite as tragic.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes our planet reminds me an infant with a fever.
It'll be over it soon.
I think not, and I hope that we will find a cure and come back to the point of balance.
The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color. https://biwork.ru/uploads/images_07-2019/images/7jzR0S33.png https://biwork.ru/news/adernoe-leto-samye-zlovesie-snimki-sm...
We have had an unseasonably wet summer thus far, which I understand from the ecologists around me here means there will be more dry brush when the dry season is fully in force, and the fires will likely become more pronounced than usual.
It's absolutely terrifying to know that this is going on, just across the pond. There are usually a lot more fires here, we've been lucky so far this year. (I myself am from Western NY, where we say "we'll gladly take the snow, if it means there are no wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, ...")
I always have a hard time making sense of very large numbers like this, especially in units that I'm not particularly familiar with. So I checked and noticed that this is about a state of Massachusetts. The area on fire is one Massachusetts.
The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color. https://biwork.ru/uploads/images_07-2019/images/7jzR0S33.png https://biwork.ru/news/adernoe-leto-samye-zlovesie-snimki-sm...
This is terrible. Russia is going to lose a pretty substantial chunk of its forests if there are no heavy rains soon. We've had very high levels of air pollution for the last few days here in Kazakhstan, with visibility levels of a few hundreds of meters. I mean, how many trees do you have to burn for the air to be so bad more than a thousand kilometers away?
The rain is the only hope...
The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color. https://biwork.ru/uploads/images_07-2019/images/7jzR0S33.png https://biwork.ru/news/adernoe-leto-samye-zlovesie-snimki-sm...
Thanks for sharing. I am in NW Montana and saw the sun like this for the first time a few days ago, I'm not from here. We have had an unseasonably wet summer thus far, which I understand from the ecologists around me here means there will be more dry brush when the dry season is fully in force, and the fires will likely become more pronounced than usual. It's absolutely terrifying to know that this is going on, just…
> Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union. I always have a hard time making sense of very large numbers like this, especially in units that I'm not particularly familiar with. So I checked and noticed that this is about a state of Massachusetts. The area on fire is one Massachusetts.
Certainly, such wildfire events are not new as we can read from https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/what-happened-to-the-s...
But it is scary anyway.