viewers of Your time of Roberto Brasero They captured in photographs or videos what the sky looked like on Monday at sunset and during this sunrise in the places where they reside. From caceres, La Rioja either Madrid come images of orange skies and the smoky hazy sun of the fires in canada.
we are on at 7000 kilometersbut the particles crossed the Atlantic and traveled to Spain via the jet stream, which is a river-like air current located around 5,000 meters above sea level and responsible for the movements of storms.
On Monday it began to enter Galicia and quickly spread to much of the peninsula. RobertBrasero explained that “these particles are at a sufficient height that it doesn’t happen here like in New York or cause health problems.”
They clarify from the Spanish Meteorological Agency –AEMET– that by touching the earth, the particles fade. “The highest concentrations occur in the highest levels of the atmosphere, not on the surface, and it is normal that we receive weather phenomena from this country, because the storms that we experience in winter are generally generated there. -low, but the material generated due to the burning of the forests, it tends to disperse; for it to have reached us, there must have been gigantic fires“.
“What is happening in certain parts of the planet can end up being noticed in very distant places. In the satellite image we can see how the smoke from the fires in Canada is reaching the Iberian Peninsula. Further south we can see the suspended dust of the Sahara”, they assure AEMET.
Air quality
For the moment, no major drop in air quality is expected, but, as always in these episodes, the people with breathing problems for any symptoms.
Fortunately, nothing to do with what happened in the city of new Yorkwhere he was decreed alert level early June due to smoke from fires in Canada. Authorities had to advise the use of masks and advise people not to spend a lot of time outdoors. Some flights even had to be suspended or postponed due to poor visibility.
Canada’s wildfires by the numbers
As of today, 492 fires remain active in Canada and 257 are out of control. According to official data, the flames have already devastated 7.2 million hectares, the worst historical data in four decades.
To collaborate in the work of extinction, Spain has sent nearly one hundred forest firefighters and other professionals, according to data from the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Of these, 27 come from the Department of Therese Riberaand the rest from various autonomous communities: 25 from the Special Emergency and Immediate Response Unit (ERICAM) of the Community of Madrid, and members of the Castilla-La Forest Fire Prevention and Extinction Service Mancha, the Catalonia Fire Department, the Murcia Defense Unit Fire Department and other Autonomous Regions.
experts from European Copernicus program They believe that it is unlikely that this episode will have direct effects on the weather in Spain or that there will be a drop in temperatures. What is certain is that we will see darker skies at dawn and dusk and orange or reddish in color.
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