Larger infernos in the Amazon can only be put out by rainfall.
BRASILIA - Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil's Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through September 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.
While Brazil's government has launched a firefighting initiative, deploying troops and military planes, those efforts will only extinguish smaller blazes and help prevent new fires, experts said. Larger infernos can only be put out by rainfall. The far northwest and west of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest will see more rain in coming weeks but the eastern parts will remain very dry, Refinitiv data show."In some points you could put out some fires, certainly, but these are isolated points, it's not the whole area," Dias said.
She estimated it would take at least 20 millimetres of rain within 1-2 hours to put out a forest fire, with more required for more intense blazes. Rondonia and southern Amazonas state are expected to get 15-29 mm across the area in the next 15 days.
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