Fire-dangerous season: why the woods to Russian Federation started blazing in the spring

Unexpectedly early this year in headings of the Russian newspapers there were news about forest fires. If to lift statistics, it is easily possible to be convinced that the Siberian taiga burns nearly an every year, but flashes reach federal mass media only by the end of summer when because of hot and droughty weather the separate centers merge in one big fiery a tornado. However this year the Siberian cities covered with a smog from forest fires at the beginning of May. The situation was complicated by a gale, its speed reached 40 meters per second, as a result fire was quickly thrown on settlements...