Global & Disaster Medicine

Fort McMurray: A family watches as their living room goes up in flames on a security camera they had installed in their home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD5FHqtFO1Y

Heat Fuels Fire at Fort McMurray

NASA:   “….Winds gusted over 20 miles (32 kilometers) per hour, fanning the flames in an area where rainfall totals have been well below normal in 2016. Ground-based measurements showed that the temperature soared to 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) on May 3 as the fire spread.

Satellite observations also detected the unusual heat. The map above shows land surface temperature from April 26 to May 3, 2016, compared to the 2000–2010 average for the same one-week period. Red areas were hotter than the long-term average; blue areas were below average. White pixels had normal temperatures, and gray pixels did not have enough data, most likely due to cloud cover…..”

 


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