As Argentina is in flames, the UN warns of extreme fires

After Patagonia and the Valdes peninsula, it is the turn of the province of Corrientes to be the prey of the flames, in the northeast of Argentina. No less than 850,000 hectares were devastated, ie one tenth of the area of ​​this region which shares borders with Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. The fire eats away at an additional 20,000 hectares every day. As often, it benefits from an extreme heat wave, with temperatures sometimes reaching 40°C – 8° above normal in February –, which is added to violent winds which sweep over natural and agricultural areas that have been dry for two years: while it usually falls between 800 mm and 1200 mm of rain each year in this region with a tropical climate, precipitation did not exceed 200 mm in 2020 and 2021.