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English: Image of the Balkan Peninsula captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite in July 25, 2007, and showing many fires dotting the landscape of Southern Europe.

The fires, represented by red dots, pumped out thick plumes of smoke that blanketed the region with haze. A thin white-gray pall of smoke hangs over the Ionian Sea southwest of Greece, and additional smoke covers the Black Sea in the northeast. The Aegean Sea to the east of Greece likely also had smoke-filled skies, but sunlight reflecting off the surface of the water masks the haze from view in this image.

The fires caused a state of emergency in Macedonia, and Greece put its northern forests under constant watch fearing further fire outbreaks, reported BBC News on July 25. The fires were fueled by extreme, desiccating heat starting in mid-July. Super-hot air pushed north from Africa and settled over much of southeastern Europe, where temperatures climbed above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). As many 500 died in the heat in Hungary (north of the area shown here), and the high demand for power caused black-outs in Greece, Kosovo, and Montenegro, said the BBC. On the following month, even stronger fires outbroke in the Peloponese peninsula.
Français : Image satellite prise le 25 juillet 2007 par la caméra MODIS du satellite Aqua pour la NASA. Cette image couvre la péninsule des Balkans et montre les nombreux feux de forêts présents ce jour là en Europe du sud.

Les feux, indiqué en rouge, ont émis de grosses quantités de fumée qui a recouvert la région d'une brume. Une fine couche gris blanchâtre de fumée est visible au dessus de la mer ionienne au sud-ouest de la Grèce, ainsi que la mer noire au nord-est. La mer Égée, à l'est de la Grèce, est probablement elle aussi recouverte par ce voile de fumée, mais il est rendu invisible sur cette image par le reflet du soleil sur l'eau.

Les feux, qui causèrent l'instauration de l'état d'urgence en Macédoine et dans le nord de la Grèce, furent causés par une vague de chaleur apparue à la mi-juillet. De l'air surchauffé venant d'Afrique s'est installé dans le sud-est de l'Europe, causant une montée des températures au dessus de 40°C. Cette vague de chaleur à causé la mort de 500 personnes en Hongrie et des pannes de courant due à la forte demande d'électricité pour les systèmes de climatisation en Grèce, au Kosovo et dans le Montenegro (Source BBC). Le mois suivant, des feux encore plus important allaisent dévaster la Grèce, particulièrement dans la péninsule du Péloponnèse.
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Date Taken on 25 July 2007
Source http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2007-07-28 direct link
Author NASA's Aqua (EOS PM-1) satellite (Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC)
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current09:03, 27 August 2007Thumbnail for version as of 09:03, 27 August 20074,800 × 6,200 (4.33 MB)とある白い猫 (talk | contribs)== Summary == {{Information |Description=Several days, ago, we had an image of fires in southern Europe from July 22, 2007. Today's image is from July 25, 2007, and it shows the many fires that still dot the landscape of Southern Europe. This image, captu

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