Fires are now not like those who before. This is one of the lessons from which many experts learn Natural forest fire that died for the lives of two people in the Segarra regionIn Llade. Is The fire of the sixth generation, the reproduction of which occurs at high speedThe field climate factors make this type of foci unpredictable and extremely virulent.
Origin is nothing but climate changeThe field rains of recent months caused the growth of thickets that are very favorable for the spread of fire. “When drying, it is very fuel and, with a strong wind, the trigger is very large“Explains Jose Ramon Gonzalez, a representative of the college of forest engineers.
The cluster of those herbaceous with strong gusts of wind caused a flame The distribution speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, one of the highest registered in Europe. The speed that surprised the extinction teams. “At first, the fire exceeded the repayment of the fire department,” explains David Borrell, the head of the fire, the general.
In the same way as the climate affects these fires, fires are able to change the climate through their distribution, since they generate huge columns of smoke that form when hot air begins to rise and condenses with the authorities.
The result is the creation of pyrocal, huge clouds in which particles of smoke and ashes are mixed, and this can, as today, influence the safety of aircraft. In the case of Lleida, the column reached a height of 17 kilometers, twice as much, on which many planes fly.
In turn, these clouds can cause thunderstorms that, with the subsequent risk of the fact that new focuses are generated near the original, which can lead to the fact that forest macro -Indians in a phenomenon that will be more and more frequent, and against which You can only fight climate changeField
