Posted on 07/29/2026 11:01:08 AM PDT by dennisw
The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated thunderstorm. This rare phenomenon is sometimes seen in the kinds of megafires that afflict the US and Canada, but was unprecedented in France, until now — and it’s just one sign that Europe is entering a new fire era, experts say.
Europe has always had wildfires, but they are becoming increasingly extreme as the climate crisis tightens its grip. Firefighters in France and Spain have this week been trying to tame blazes more ferocious and more erratic than anything they’ve tackled before.
On Wednesday, authorities in Spain and France said that some wildfires had been stabilized, but expressed concern that things could still deteriorate amid Europe’s fourth heat wave so far this year.
The European Union has also warned there is a risk of fires further east in Greece and Italy.
This all follows from Europe’s record-breaking fire season last year, with experts saying the continent is joining a long list of regions — from Siberia to the Amazon — which now endure back-to-back extreme fire seasons.
“We have entered an era of fires that cannot be extinguished,” said Víctor Resco de Dios, lecturer of forestry engineering and global change at the University of Lleida in Spain. “These are fires that burn with the intensity of several atomic bombs.”
Wildfires in France have now scorched more than 160,000 hectares (about 617 square miles), making them the largest on record for the country, and there are still months of wildfire season left.
“The situation we face today is the hardest we’ve ever recorded, the hardest since the Second World War,”
the appearance of fire clouds, or “pyrocumulonimbus,” which formed over the weekend in the Gironde region, near Bordeaux, according to fire authorities.
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“...as the climate crisis tightens its grip....”
On jeez...they are so hopeless.
You’d think Vesuvious just eruoted.
The fires will probably immeasurably improve Europe.
All of Europe needs a high colonic.
(There goes Net-zero up in smoke)
Not to worry
MORE taxes will fix everything
Ask Jolly Olde England
Gotta get rid of Tumble Dryers!!
🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
The new era of Muslim initiated fires. Churches, woods, anywhere.
I’ve gotta say it.......”And then I realized I’ve never even been to Mt. Vesuvius.”
The boogyman climate crisis at work again!
MORE taxes will fix everything
...and the band played on....
Import more Muslims!
It’s climate change, of course!
Climate Change got the Titanic!
(“...as the climate crisis tightens its grip....”
On jeez...they are so hopeless.)
They’re Delusional
STRONGLY Delusional
“The rumour I’ve heard is that parts of Europe, like Canada and California, have dispensed with fire prevention in forests and grasslands.”
That’s the first thing I thought as well. The forest will burn, it’s just a matter of a controlled burn and proper forest management or uncontrolled fires.
And yes, the politicians just blame it on “climate change” Not their poor management.
The Palisades fire was cause by an arsonist, not global warming.
Europe has allowed in millions of Mooselimbs who are all too happy to see the "Old World Establishment" burn.
Yea... they're entering "a new fire era"... but probably not for the reasons they will admit.
Yep
If you have lots of kindling around and its dry,....
You’ve gotta admit, CNN is trying hard. However, no one gives a shi...er...gives a Democrat about anything that oozes from either end of their sorry-assed bodies.
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