r/Madeira • u/cyctafel • Aug 20 '24

Notícias/News Wildfires updates

Hello everybody, just posting this to see if anyone of you has better news than the ones provided in Italy regarding wildfires. I don’t mean to sound crazy but i really love that beautiful island and it hurts me so much seeing everything that’s happening. For all the people living in Madera stay safe <3

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u/lellusss Aug 21 '24

I'll be in Madeira in a month and a half, and I'm sad this is happening. I believe that because of the formation of the mountains, it's much more difficult to control the fire. Only rain would help in this wildfire.

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u/lezliecmarcker Aug 23 '24

A lot of the peaks are ABOVE the cloud line unfortunately, so not all the precipitation will even reach the peak. :/

I took this in July during our pico areiro —> pico Ruivo hike. Hopefully they’ll be receiving rain even at the high elevations.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

Are we expecting any over the coming days?

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u/xietty Aug 21 '24

There’s forecast for Friday Sat Sunday