Firefighters race to control wildfires near Madrid and Bordeaux as another heatwave hits

Firefighters are racing to control wildfires near Madrid and Bordeaux as another heatwave hits

Temperatures will reach 39C (102F) this week in the Spanish capital and south-west France, with no rain forecast until at least Friday

Firefighters west of Bordeaux are reporting a relatively good night, our correspondent writes, with the fire stabilised – but not under control

In the Gironde region, which includes Bordeaux, the wildfire has burned more than 42,000 hectares, with 240 homes destroyed - see drone photos here

"[It] reminds me a little bit like Pompeii," one resident of Bordeaux tells us. "It was quite difficult to breathe"

More than 300,000 people have been evacuated across France and Spain in recent days.


North America wildfires burn millions of acres in western US and Canada

Over the weekend, dozens of wildfires burned over 1 million acres in the US state of Oregon. Thousands are under evacuation orders as the fires have burned homes and forced the closure of major highways.

In Canada, thousands of lightning strikes from storms over the weekend also ignited fresh fires in British Columbia. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said this is one of the worst wildfire seasons on record for the country.


Climate collapse, due to human activity = future human civilisation collapsing because of it.

Let's look the other way and keep the heat up.

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 5:49pm:



Oh dear, now lightning is climate. I guess arson is also climate.

"Romps et al. constructed a proxy based on the energy available to make air rise in the atmosphere and on precipitation rates to model the frequency of lightning strikes across the continental United States. They predict that the number of lightning strikes will increase by about 12% for every degree of rise in global average air temperature."

Ah, predictions and proxies.

You do realise that lightning is local. Nothing to do with "global average air temperature" .

And models don't have a high enough accuracy to predict lightning. The model grid resolutions are too wide for thunderstorms.

Greg Mullins, a former commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW and a founding member of Emergency Leaders for Climate Action, said that as a result of climate change, firefighters were battling fires that did not behave the way that textbooks said they should.

Hotter weather is drying soil and plants faster than it once did, and as a result, areas that should not be prone to fire were beginning to burn, while some fire-prone areas were proving to be dangerously combustible soon after rains.

“The thing that gives me the horrors is what an El Nino fire season will look like after this,” said Mullins.

The Bureau of Meteorology declared an El Nino event was under way in June, and since then, the water temperatures in the Pacific – one of the key indicators of the phenomenon – have risen faster than any other occasion in history. El Nino tends to drive temperatures higher on the east coast of Australia, making fire seasons longer and more dangerous.


How extreme weather in Europe and North America is signalling a new era of fire danger for Australia

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/how-extreme-weather-in-europe-...

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 8:49pm:


And you have proof of this? Or does it merely say there is a probability of a lightning strike?

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 8:49pm:


So how do they beat physics/ Aren't the algorithms supposed to be physics derived?

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 8:49pm:



Models are only as good as any data it receives. If the grid resolution of the data is low, there is low confidence. The data is too sparse to accurately predict anything.

From AI: "GOES Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) — optical lightning imager from geostationary orbit

    Spatial resolution (near-uniform): about 8 km at nadir and 14 km at the edge of field of view."

Also "Instrument location accuracy

This is usually reported as how accurately the instrument can geolocate a lightning flash/event, which is not the same thing as pixel size. For the exact “instrument accuracy” number, you need the instrument-specific performance spec (often stated in mission/algorithm documentation). From the sources I pulled here, I can give:

    GLM pixel/ground sampling size (8–14 km) but not a single official “instrument accuracy” error (e.g., 1–2 km RMS) from the NOAA pages I found. "

Not accurate enough.

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote on Jul 28^th, 2026 at 8:49pm:


See above. And they cannot "predict".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That%3F

Watts's blog has been criticised for inaccuracy. The Guardian columnist George Monbiot described WUWT as "highly partisan and untrustworthy".[28] Leo Hickman, at The Guardian's Environment Blog, also criticised Watts's blog, stating that Watts "risks polluting his legitimate scepticism about the scientific processes and methodologies underpinning climate science with his accompanying politicised commentary."




Denialism is a psychological and social phenomenon where people reject clear, overwhelming evidence and refuse to accept established facts. People often use it as a defence mechanism to cope with stress, fear, or a reality that feels too painful or difficult to accept.

Seek help Lee.

I'm betting all the illegal scum in Europe are starting the fires with environmental terrorism, just like they did in LA.

The illegals in LA started the fires via their nightly drum bin fires where the embers blew far. Sadly, Hollywood, who helped all the illegals in, didn't burn as was hoped for.