I think lots of the green area of Europe is forest. The UK does really have any forest cover.
I take it you meant doesn't, that said. New forrest, Epping, Keilder, just 3 I can think of off the top of my head. Mind you they are probably all too small to show clearly on a satellite picture .
The New Forest isn’t really a forest … a large part is unfenced pasture and heathland … more than 50% if memory serves. It just the sort of area that suffers really badly in the drought, high temperatures and drying winds we’ve had this year.
Norfolk’s heaths and breklands are suffering really badly too … they’re similar habitat as are the coastal heathlands of Suffolk (Minsmere, Dunwich, and the areas stretching inland over Martlesham Heath to Ipswich).
It’s all so tinder dry at the moment it looks ready to spontaneously combust.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It’s all so tinder dry at the moment it looks ready to spontaneously combust.
I think this what the MSM were trying to intimate last week (and again now) but even in 40+C heat the dry ground will still need a source of ignition...which doesn't diminish the awful feeling of watching your house burn down but the wildfires are or were almost certainly either arson or carelessness (which could be something as simple as a discarded cigarette). Granted, the sun shining through a piece of broken glass (for example) could cause ignition but it's more difficult than you'd imagine. Although once a fire gets a hold in dry ground/vegetation its very difficult to contain - as we saw.
I don’t understand any of those maps, our moor is always white in the summer, no trees, apart from a couple of plantations of pine for cutting. Bodmin the same, that’s even more scrubby than Dartmoor.
As the footnote on the map says, Fields are always white this time of year.
It’s been heaven for farmers, not many years where their hay doesn’t spoil just as they’re about to cut it.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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The source is the European Space Agency Sentinel-3 satelite so it should have data for Europe but I haven't had a chance to look yet.
New forrest, Epping, Keilder, just 3 I can think of off the top of my head. Mind you they are probably all too small to show clearly on a satellite picture .
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Although once a fire gets a hold in dry ground/vegetation its very difficult to contain - as we saw.
Bodmin the same, that’s even more scrubby than Dartmoor.