| Event: | WF Wild fire |
| Number: | 2021-000104 |
| Country: | HUN Hungary |
| Location: | Europe region |
| Date (YMD): | 2021-8-4 |
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| Comments: | As forecasted, a significantly warmer air mass than normal is moving from the Mediterranean into the Balkan peninsula, with nearly 10 °C above average temperatures. Italy, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece are the worst affected by the extreme and dry heatwave.
Experts say that heatwaves hitting Europe are more frequent and more severe than climate models have predicted.
Drought and wildfires are considered to be the consequences of significant heatwaves. Rising temperatures, longer period of droughts, lower precipitation and strong wind create a favourable condition for wildfires in the Mediterranean region. In addition to the favourable fire climate conditions, warming temperatures prompted by anthropogenic climate change also increase the likelihood of longer and more frequent fire seasons.
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