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Green hell campfire ash1/31/2024 ![]() The Turkish meteorological office sees little likelihood of respite in the week ahead. The heatwave in southern Europe is expected to linger well into next week with some forecasts suggesting it could be among the most severe on record. It has urged preparations to prevent health and water supply problems. The World Meteorological Organisation tweeted that extreme heat is hitting the wider Mediterranean region with temperatures forecast to rise well above 40C in inland areas of Italy, Greece, Tunisia and Turkey. This year looks likely to continue the trend. Our smallest mistake leads to great disaster,” he tweeted.Ī wildfire on the southern Turkish coast near Manavgat, Antalya province. The Turkish climate scientist Levent Kurnaz said recent weather had created conditions for easy ignition. Future wildfire risk is projected to increase in southern Europe, according to the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Few domestic reports mentioned broader climate trends that are heightening the dangers of fire in Turkey and elsewhere.Ĭlimate scientists have long predicted the Mediterranean will be hit hard by rising temperatures and changes in rainfall, driven by human emissions. Government ministers speculated that the cause may be arson attacks by the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, but provided no evidence. As news spread, #PrayForTurkey was trending on Twitter with images of devastation and maps showing the locations of the more than two dozen fires across the country. Throughout the country, firefighters battled more than 50 blazes. I lost lambs and other animals,” he told the Daily Sabah. “Everything I had was burned to the ground. Ibrahim Aydın, a farmer, said he had lost all his livestock and nearly been killed while fighting the flames. Residents of affected towns told reporters they had never seen anything like it. Sunbathers watch as a helicopter carries water from the sea to dump on fires near Marmaris. He said the smoke from fires near Antalya and Mersin was now drifting to Cyprus. “Those numbers are off the scale compared to the last 19 years,” said Mark Parrington, a senior scientist in the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. ![]() Satellite analysis by the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service show the heat intensity of the country’s fires on Thursday reached about 20 gigawatts, four times higher than the previous daily maximum. Wildfires are common in Turkey during the summer, but the blazes over the past two days have been exceptional. The flames cut off two hotels, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,000 tourists and staff by coastguard and fishing vessels. At Bodrum, in Muğla province, 80 hectares (197 acres) were burnt despite firefighting efforts on the ground and by air. Local media published photos of popular Aegean Sea resorts surrounded by burning hillsides and forest and farmland reduced to ash. Fires rage in the hills behind Icmeler Bay, in Muğla province.
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