European wildfire smoke dampens UK heatwave with unusually hazy conditions
Estimators said that the smoke from forest fires in Southern Europe has disrupted the existing heat wave and brought hazy conditions to England.
The UK experienced the fourth heat wave in summer this week, and some regions have climbed over 33C in the hottest places.
However, Met Office said, “Duman and Sahara Dust, one of the forest fires in Spain and Portugal, were dragged to England.”
This means that the UK should be waiting for developed sunset and sunrise in the coming days – deeper reds and oranges thanks to the light scattering, “he added.
Scientists say that the phenomenon is linked to two processes known as Rayleigh scattering and mie scattering.
According to the Royal Meteorology Association, Rayleight scattering caused by small air molecules normally makes it look blue by scattering shorter light wavelengths such as violet and blue.
However, larger particles released by forest fires such as institution and ash triggers the scattering of Mie, which spreads all wavelengths more evenly and allows longer red and orange wavelengths to dominate.
Met Office Meteorologist Greg Dewurst Sky News said that “he will hang out for the next few days”.
Met Office’s estimated on Sunday means that low clouds taken towards the North Sea will be “plenty of sunlight for most”. There will be strong winds in the south -west of England and will remain hot along the east coast.
Spain, authorities, already killed seven people and burned an area of London to fight the “negative conditions” to fight, while warning about the high winds on Friday and aggravated by Heat fought by 14 major fire.
Firefighters are fighting to produce flames throughout southern Europe in one of the worst summers for forest fires in 20 years.
Virginia Barcones, General Manager of Emergency Services, said that a two -week early heat wave in Spain and the southern winds worsens.
According to the European Union’s Forest Fire Information Service, fires have burned more than 157,000 hectares in Spain this year, almost twice the annual average.
In the neighboring Portugal, in the meantime, in the central and northern regions of thousands of firefighters were fighting five large flames, about 350 km northeast of Lisbon, now there was a fire in Trancoso, which lasted six days.
According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s.
The EU Monitoring Agency says that 2024 is the hottest year with both global and Europe, which is the second highest ‘heat stress’ day.
