We cannot speak of a collective hallucination, a smell of smoke is rising north from the Gironde. We felt it as far as Nantes. The fires of Gironde in question.
In La Roche-sur-Yon, this Tuesday morning, residents had the unpleasant sensation of smelling a burnt smell. Still, no plume of smoke in sight. Similar testimonies were noted on Noirmoutier.
Same thing in Nantes where, from the first hours of the day, we smelled this characteristic smell of the fire of vegetation.
Most the departmental fire and rescue services of Vendée and Loire-Atlantique do not report fires large enough in these areas to be “felt” at this point.
Some explain these smells by the fallout from the fires in Gironde. It is true that a southerly wind is blowing this Tuesday morning on the departments close to the Atlantic coast from the Gironde to the Pays de la Loire, via La Rochelle where the same observation was made.
No need to call the firefighters who have much else to manage at the moment. Fire outbreaks are also numerous in Pays de la Loire these days as the news shows.
This is due to the fires in New Aquitaine.
“When we analyze the retro-trajectories, which make it possible to follow where an air mass comes from, we are told at Air Pays de la Loire, added to our network of air measurements, we see an increase in particle levels in Vendée and Nantes, but it remains moderate. And it does come from the Gironde”
In the morning, with winds turning more to the southwest, therefore coming from the Atlantic, the phenomenon faded.
It should also be noted that the ongoing fire in the town of Mulsanne, in Sarthe, has also caused an increase in the level of particles in the air detected by Air Pays de la Loire aircraft in Le Mans.
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