IMEX Malta |
IMEX Malta - It's a personal service. The Gateway to Europe. |
 | 
|
Smoke from extensive wildfires in Canada reaches Maltese islands
August 17 2024 14:10 by PCLMedia
Smoke from extensive wildfires in Canada has reached the centre of the Mediterranean, including the Maltese islands, Malta Islands Weather page stated on Tuesday.
As shared by popular local page Malta Islands Weather and snapped by Severe Weather Europe earlier this morning, a satellite image of the European region shows a thin layer of smoke covering much of the atmosphere around the Central Mediterranean. And as it so happens, that smoke has already travelled over 8,000 kilometres to be here.
“This smoke ended up migrating by combining with several storm systems across the Atlantic, northern Europe and finally the Mediterranean,” the weather page explained, following very strong northwesterly winds battering regions in Spain, Sicily and southern Italy, even bringing with them gusts of Force 4 and 5 to Malta today.
In fact, during yesterday’s beautiful and rather rare lunar spectacle, the popular blue supermoon ended up appearing over our skies in a much darker red hue, also due to all the ash in the atmosphere.
It’s been a harrowing couple of weeks for Canada, with some 375 wildfires still burning up till yesterday. Across British Columbia, some 127 wildfires are still out of control, with distressing photos and videos emerging on an hourly basis. And this isn’t an isolated incident, either: just last year, Canada’s wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of emissions, emitting around two billion tonnes of CO2.
“This phenomenon serves as a reminder that all that happens in any part of the world, no matter how isolated, eventually affects each and every one of us,” Maltese Islands Weather ended.
Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, was hit by the largest wildfire in a century which burned through over 80,000 acres of land and ravaged a third of the nearby township of Jasper.
The fire began on 22 July and was only classified as being ‘held’ – meaning that it is not expected to spread – two days ago.
Residents were allowed to return to Jasper on Saturday having evacuated the town three weeks prior. One firefighter died while fighting the blaze, succumbing to his injuries after a tree fell on him while he was fighting the fire.
Contact IMEX Malta
