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Satellite images show the temperature of the land surface in southern France, Spain and northern Africa in the morning of 17 July.

Throughout the entire crisis period, the EFFIS Fire Danger Forecast warned of "extreme fire danger" which could lead to a devastating series of wildfires.

In particular, CAMS has been monitoring the intensity of wildfires in northern Portugal, where a number of fires burned for several days in late January and early February 2022.

Since the end of July, the forecasts of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) had already predicted the likely development of fires...