The fires that are sweeping part of the territory of the Iberian Peninsula illuminated the night sky last night and were visible from the satellite, even below the clouds. In the images taken by NASA's NASA-20 satellite, the main spotlights can be seen, which hit the center and northwest of the Peninsula with special virulence.
The satellite perspective shows some of the 14 great foci that remained active on the night of August 13 in Castilla y León, Galicia, Andalucía, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura. This situation propitiated by the heat wave and the phenomenon of the “Flash drought”, whose virulence has led the Interior Ministry to declare the pre -emergence phase of the General Emergency State Plan already convene a meeting of the State Committee of Coordination and Directorate to evaluate the situation and coordinate actions.
The image of NOAA-20 corresponds almost millimétricamete with the data offered in real time by CopernicusThe European Meteorological Surveillance System. The geologist and relievation is nahúm Méndez chazarra has elaborate A assembly with the satellite images that allows to compare the situation a week ago, on the night of August 7, to verify the change of situation with respect to the fires. In the image edited to remove the lights of the large urban nuclei, the magnitude of active fires is better appreciated:
The night has been Especially difficult in the south of the province of León and Zamorawhere it has evicted more than 5,000 people from about thirty locations and where There is already a dead man and 10 wounded as provisional balance. Meanwhile, in Galicia several fires ravage the province of Ourense, although there has also been in Lugo and Pontevedra and at least three firefighters have been injured. In Extremadura, the eleven active forest fires during the night have forced the regional government to request the intervention of the UME.
The Minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Sara Aagesen, has warned this morning that the heat and drought that affect the peninsula this summer dangerously influences the expansion and virulence of fires. “The fire is part of the impact that comes from the hand of climate change,” explained the minister, before influencing that “the temperature does not stop increasing.”
You can consult the map of active fires in Spain here:
