Wanderscout
Imagine you have a garden/piece of nature. It doesn’t rain and you don’t water it for 3 months and then light it with fire, does your garden air temperature need to be at 40°C for it to start burning?
Are we talking past each other?
So knowing that, how is heat necessary (as you wrote) for wildfires again? Surely you’re not suggesting fires can start by themselves (the famous „natural cause“ myth)
Temperatures are forecast to fall nationwide from Tuesday, though they will mostly remain above 30 C (86 F).
Lower temperatures alone will fix the fires I’m sure. Or why this completely random weather forecast?
Spain is faring better with its wildfires this week despite the high temperatures of the country’s third heat wave this summer.
They say „despite“ as if heat could just create some random fire. Maybe one could come to the conclusion that temperatures are irrelevant for wildfires after all.
But the evaporation!? Right, the third heat wave when it hasn’t rained in two, three months must be to blame.
At some point this will just lead to legitimating climate change deniers further, and I think we would benefit from avoiding that.
The headline is misleading again, high temperatures can’t cause fires. (250-300°C required to burn vegetation) You need two things: dry stuff and someone to light that, temperature is irrelevant. That’s why fires during winter exist, it’s just that less people are out during that time to do stupid.
Edit:
June/July/August are on average the driest months in southern Italy. If the soil is already dry because it hasn’t rained in two months there shouldn’t be anything left to evaporate. My point is, it should be communicated clearer that it’s burning not because it’s hot (people really think fires can randomly start by themselves), but because of arson, negligence or intention.
Edit 2: German newspaper (FAZ) literally writes this about wildfires in Greece:
It is hoped that on Thursday the temperatures should fall back to normal values of about 35 degrees Celsius for the season. In the two weeks before, the temperatures were between 40 and 45 degrees.
Like how is that supposed to help with the fires if it still doesn’t rain?! That’s why temperature is pointless to mention in the same sentence.