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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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These reporting nitwits won’t describe the real culprits: greenies and their ignorant policies of neglect through refusing to thin forests and scrub vegatation.
It’s the muslims.
Really. They do this in every country they invade.
The media MAY call them “arsonists” but they’re really jihadis.
It is so cool what “immigrants” can do!
Bordeaux is not in southwestern France.
Alternative media in Europe is reporting that a LOT of these fires have been set by arsonists. A Youtube channel of a prepper woman in Austria - “Survivalilly” - did a good vid on this just today. Been lots of arrests in France and Spain. Not something CNN was likely to put into its lede.
Here’s video that claims to be of someone in France starting some Global Warming. (If anyone doesn’t have X or can’t open the video, or whatever, sorry.)
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2082354050670989772
Just another ignorant idiot at CNN who thinks her hyperobole she probably found on tik tok is the truth. God help us all.
Chilling, absolutely chilling....
Oh no! 0.25% of France has been scorched! Whatever will the other 99.75% do now?
Much like Phoenix is not in the southwestern US?
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