On Sunday 13 August 2006 21:54, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > José> The temperature around here last week was really high, almost > José> 40 C outside (42+ in some places) with the low above 25 C. > > Fahrenheit?
Nope, more than 42 in some places. The problem is that air conditioned is not usual in public buildings like the university. As it was not heating until a few years ago. Crazy... > José> We had problems with forest fires as well. It is not usual but > José> most of the problems occurred in the North of Portugal/Galicia, > José> notice the following satelite picture from ESA: > José> http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMMDJY7QQE_index_0.html > > Hmm, I know this trick, they photoshoped the smoke, right? Last year I arrived to Porto coming from Azores, when in the plain I saw some forest fires and the respective smoke columns. It is difficult to describe the feeling. On the other hand some of those pictures are difficult to fake due to the Reynolds number, that is why you can distinguish the different scales involved. Usually we can identify if a (small scale) model was used when we see a scene with a damn breaking up from a real event because the water behaves differently in a first order approximation... Probably Angus knows this a lot better than me. :-) > José> There is something unusual in this picture the wind was coming > José> from East from Spain. The dominant wind in this region is West, > José> coming from Atlantic. > > Impressive. Worst, if you notice the small picture from August 6, you can see that the smokes goes in direction to sea. So for a week we had strong dry wind coming from the centre of Peninsula, a recipe for disaster. > JMarc -- José Abílio
