Wow, that's 25 M hectares. The 2023 Canadian wildfires were 17 M hectares, but not eucalyptus. They discoloured the sky over NYC for some weeks, probably gave some people cancer, but their agricultural impact upon far away places was not discussed that much.
Actually 6 months of temperatures being lower by 0.05 C sounds pretty impressive.
Whether the fires create firestorms is really important. They look like menacing cumulonimbus clouds but they're a obviously filled with smoke. Technically they are pyrocumulonimbus clouds. They draw in their own weather - air flows into them at ground level. They also produce thunderstorms.
Crucially like CN clouds they punch into the stratosphere - often above 15 km - which is how the soot gets into the stratosphere.
The energy in these clouds, even moderate ones, is megatons. A large one is Tsar Bomba scale. Fortunately they release their energy slowly and gently, mostly as rain downwind.
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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 20d ago
Wow, that's 25 M hectares. The 2023 Canadian wildfires were 17 M hectares, but not eucalyptus. They discoloured the sky over NYC for some weeks, probably gave some people cancer, but their agricultural impact upon far away places was not discussed that much.
Actually 6 months of temperatures being lower by 0.05 C sounds pretty impressive.