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A fire tornado in Portugal and an area the size of Funen burned in Spain. This is the result of this summer's wildfires on the Iberian Peninsula. And the fire season is still going on.
A rare natural phenomenon surprised Portugal: a tornado of fire was recorded on video on the night of August 15 in Aguiar da Beira, Guarda district. The event occurred during an active forest fire and forced the evacuation of people nearby. This extreme phenomenon adds to another tornado of fire recorded on August 9 in Moimenta da Beira, showing its recurrence in the region. How does a tornado of fire form? Fire tornadoes are generated when the …
Fires in Spain and Portugal have already claimed six lives. Thousands of firefighters are fighting the blazes, along with soldiers, and planes borrowed from abroad are helping them, the AFP agency reports. The heatwave has been plaguing the Iberian Peninsula for 16 days and could ease in the evening or on Tuesday, the Spanish meteorological agency Aemet said on Monday.
Europe faces an intense summer with high temperatures and multiple forest fires that affect countries such as Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal. In the latter, rare phenomena have been recorded: tornadoes of fire. On the night of Friday, August 15th, in Aguiar da Beira , district of Guarda, Portugal, a tornado of fire was caught in video. At first an active forest fire is observed; seconds later, the fire is organized in a vortex that causes the…
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