More than 26,000 people have faced evacuation as fires on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, continued to blaze. Firefighters continued to drop water and battle the wildfire in and around northern communities like Güímar and La Orotava. The fires on Tenerife broke out earlier this week amid a regional heat wave. “Spain, including Canary Islands, and Portugal also experienced extreme heat, fueling an extremely severe fire risk,” said the World Meteorological Association on Friday. There is high confidence that human induced climate change from greenhouse emissions, is the main driver.”Image: Bomberos de Tenerife

Source: The North Africa Journal August 19, 2023 22:31 UTC