While watching news24 just now, they showed the fires out of control
in Spain and Portugal, with all that fire and heat, would it have an
added affect on the existing heat conditions in Europe?
or no affect at all

I was thinking of a heat boost , like a microclimate, pushing the
temperature up slightly

No!

....... enough particulates in the atmosphere will drop temps.... they'd
have to be pretty big fires though.. normally it's volcanic or impact
ejecta punched high into the stratosphere that's known for this so you can
see the problem of scale a few bush fires will have.

Les


"TrunkY" wrote in message
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No!

"Les & Claire" wrote in message ...
...... enough particulates in the atmosphere will drop temps.... they'd
have to be pretty big fires though.. normally it's volcanic or impact
ejecta punched high into the stratosphere that's known for this so you can
see the problem of scale a few bush fires will have.

Les


If the experience of the Australian fires of early 2003 (much bigger
than anything in Europe at present) is anything to go by, you might
expect to see maxima locally reduced by up to 5 C in areas with dense
smoke haze, but this would be unlikely to occur more than a few tens
of kilometres from the fires themselves. There would be few or no
continent-wide effects.

Blair Trewin
National Climate Centre,
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia

In uk.sci.weather on Mon, 4 Aug 2003 at 09:56:50, Les & Claire wrote :
...... enough particulates in the atmosphere will drop temps....

I never thought I'd be hoping for a nuclear winter...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham, England