[mixedmath]

> Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

I always have a hard time making sense of very large numbers like this, especially in units that I'm not particularly familiar with. So I checked and noticed that this is about a state of Massachusetts. The area on fire is one Massachusetts.

[kerzol]

The area with ashes and smoke instead of usual air is several times larger... It covers Siberian part of Russia, Kazakhstan an probabaly China and Mongolia.

Certainly, such wildfire events are not new as we can read from https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/what-happened-to-the-s...

But it is scary anyway.