Alerts of "black rain" in Argentina
After the massive forest fires in Bolivia, Brasil and Córdoba (Arg province) have caused a large part of Argentina to have ashen skies, now the incoming rains will catch all that smoke.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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Are argentineans also burning their fields in preparations for the oncoming sewing season like in São Paulo?
Here have been a week with the worst air quality imaginable in account of the idiot governor who just gave a free for all burning season, instead of how it used to be done, that is, giving scheduled permissions to let the smoke dissipate before a new burning field ignite.
free for all
libertad!!!!
But no, like, it's not a regional thing. The entire continent is burning.
In Arg, in the main agricultural areas most farmers don't do burnings/controlled burnings. The source of the ashen skies in all the Parana/Uruguay/Plata basin are wild forest fires in Bolivia and Brasil. Idk if they originated as intentional, but they are out of control.
When I lived in Buenos Aires, 2007-2013, I remember a year when they did it (maybe 2008?) and Buenos Aires looked like Silent Hill for like a week (there was also a tornado in the Money River (Rio de la Plata) and a day when it went totally dark in the middle of the day. It was a very strange year. Edit: that year also had ice storms that destroyed a lot of cars)
Maybe that's the year of the Paraná/Silver river delta grasslands fires?
Anyways Bs As can be very foggy
Yeah, I heard that either this was done by the Bolivia/Brazilian far-right or the organized crime (which has ties with the far-right anyway). I think Chile is currently helping Bolivia.
Milei aside, watching these forest fires grow...
spoiler
across my lifetime has doomed me out. There was some tipping point when I realized every summer of my life is now covered in smoke, and it never really was when I was a kid.
I moved away from the worst of it, only to have it blow in eventually even here. The locals were like "this is the first we've ever seen anything like this," and I'm just thinking "prepare yourself."
I'm surprised this doesn't cause more of a eco panic reaction in more people, because it's really unsettling when the air smells like fire.
Spoilered for bad vibes.
That's a pretty loud sign. May Argentina be free of the 
quickly.
Is the opposite of acid rain when lye falls from the sky?
Based rain?
The 10 plagues of Egypt are happening again.
On the plus side, he may have found the way to get "conservatives" committed to beating climate change...
Pfff nah, not happening
Yeah, I guess even for a joke about 
being racist it's just too implausible 
On the plus side, he may have found the way to get "conservatives" committed to beating climate change...
Lol nope most of them still think it's all fake