Tuesday 5 March 2019

The New Normal

Copernicus are doing a series of posts on Twitter entitled 'the new normal?'. Images of wildfires in the middle of winter - often only a few kilometres from snow. These images were on the Dublin Fire Brigade twitter page at the weekend of the fires in the Dublin mountains. One day later the whole county was covered in snow. The whole country is still way behind on groundwater levels, see Teagasc's latest map of the month for satellite derived measurements of soil moisture. Measured via MODIS at 1km spatial resolution, you can see how bad 2018 was for crops.

SWIR Image from Sentinel 2 - Copernicus Imagery

Image taken out window of plane leaving Dublin Airport - Dublin Fire Brigade Twitter

 It is the same all over Europe at present - Croatia, Romania, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina - have a look at the Copernicus Twitter Page

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