French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

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verzali•about 3 hours ago

The situation in Bordeaux right now feels close to apocalyptic. I left yesterday. Two hundred thousand people are evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed, and the fire about 10 miles from the edge of the city.

jaynetics•11 minutes ago

I also left yesterday. I thought the mood was still surprisingly calm, considering that there was already enough smoke in the city to make it look like a foggy winter day and smell heavily of campfire.

Now I am wondering if my return flight from Bordeaux in a few days will actually happen. Currently the airport is still operating, although the surrounding area has been evacuated. It really looks apocalyptic there, though:

https://static.actu.fr/uploads/2026/07/aeroport-bordeaux-fum...

toomuchtodo•about 2 hours ago

What resources would you recommend to follow this event as it continues?

verzali•about 1 hour ago

NASA FIRMS is good for tracking where the fire is. As well as the site another user recommended, I was following this one: https://feuxgironde.fr/

msk-lywenn•about 2 hours ago

It’s in French but this crowd sourced website updates quite quickly : https://feuxdeforet.fr/gironde-33/saumos-22-07-2026-4367/

expedition32•about 1 hour ago

Everyone in Southern Europe who hate tourists are about to get their wish!

ynac•about 2 hours ago

Just had the same here in Washington state for the Little Giant fire. Great image in the article. We had another fire cloud behind Rainier the other day, and saw it from the Rount Mainier farm - it really looked like the volcano was smoking up and ready to top-off. <clench>

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little...

eikenberry•about 2 hours ago

https://archive.is/20260725052942/https://www.seattletimes.c...

loeg•32 minutes ago

"East" of Seattle is certainly one way to describe it (100 miles east).

pelasaco•28 minutes ago

That's remember me of https://www.france24.com/en/20190824-macron-france-brazil-bo...

superkuh•about 2 hours ago

There's a good chance that conflagrations during WWII generated such clouds. There are well established incidents of such in Germany (and Japan) (ref: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/91/9/2010bam... , Hamburg, Dresden, etc) but nothing for certain in France. The British attacks on Royan which destroyed 85% of it with high explosive and napalam would be the most likely site.

touwer•41 minutes ago

Don't look up

rich_sasha•about 2 hours ago

Good job climate change really, definitely, is a global conspiracy and completely untrue.

Because if it weren't, the current trend would be pretty amazing horrifyingly awful.

mingus88•about 2 hours ago

Everyone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them

Never let them live this down

edhelas•about 2 hours ago

https://rehost.diberie.com/Picture/Get/f/532005

Picture from the french "moderate" right journal Le Figaro, mai 2026.

"investigation into environmental alarmists"

SiempreViernes•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, lets not forget Bush sr switching from advocating action against climate change to enforcing inaction on the political pretence of protecting jobs.

https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/globalwarming2ed/chpt/bush...

dgellow•about 2 hours ago

The president of the United States, and pretty much all his cult-members/followers

jauntywundrkind•about 2 hours ago

I think part of why the right keeps getting more brazen, more anti-reality, anti-science, anti-education, anti-school, anti-democracy is that so many of their numbers are coming due. Disinformation isn't working, as the problems mount, so animosity/overdrama/anger and anti-information are the routes left to them now, as Titanic walls of flame engulf the world in their wake.

Bush II dismantled NASA's mission statement to monitor the world, for example. This is not a new foe, and I have not forgotten. https://www.ucs.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-sta...

jubilee33•about 2 hours ago

Yes because it was the old people watching Fox news who did this...those led astray; but not corporations polluting and their employees "just doing their job", not politicians enabling them and taking payoffs, not the people who own the propaganda outlets?

I mean ultimately it is everyone who ever bought an electronic product or drove an automobile or ate a burger right?... At some level. But it just seems like this level of anger should be directed at the actually decision makers and their lackeys... or are u claiming that there is some sort of functioning democracy that holds power accountable, because most of the electorate like wars and bombing and usury and these things too? If you must be angry, and not saying you shouldn't be, please focus it on the correct source and not other powerless people, misinformed as they may be.

jrajav•about 2 hours ago

Let's roll with the futilist attitude for a second; what is it you suggest that we actually do, once we're focusing the anger on the correct source?

cineticdaffodil•32 minutes ago

So, if you used climate credits, to build up those forrests. Do they get nil and void, if those forrests burn up?