Australian heat waves & bushfires

[2hats]

Is it not coming up to autumn in Australia? Maybe things will cool down.

Meteorological autumn - not for 2 months.

 

[DexterTCN]

Meteorological autumn - not for 2 months.

FFS

 

[ice-is-forming]

Here's a nice jaunty jingle from their fucking clown of a PM:

Morrison's government on the bushfires: from attacking climate 'lunatics' to calling in the troops

From May 2018 to January 2020, the Coalition government has had an evolving stance on the fire crisis

www.theguardian.com

#notmypm

 

[weltweit]

Looks very odd given the circumstances.

 

[brogdale]

pols if this has gone up already, but...blimey

 

[spring-peeper]

Aussie Firefighters Break Into Smiles And Dance As Rain Falls On Bushfire Area

<p>After weeks of battling intense bushfires, firefighters in Australia have finally been given a reason to smile as rain begins to fall over the scorched woodland areas. And what do you do when you’ve been working all hours, risking for your life to protect lives, wildlife and homes, and you...

www.unilad.co.uk

 

[bluescreen]

Aussie Firefighters Break Into Smiles And Dance As Rain Falls On Bushfire Area

But that's from November! They could do with it now.

 

[shakespearegirl]

shakespearegirl have you heard from your friends?

they are trying to head home today. Looking on the emergency app it seems to mr there are still fires very close but the evacuation now warning has gone. Pissing down in Melbourne!

 

[bluescreen]

Bush fires are causing food shortages. WA can't get their fresh food and veg from the east and nor can WA send their produce east. Meanwhile, there are truckers caught in waystations because roads are shut.

Nullarbor road closures from bushfires could hit Perth grocery shelves

Bushfires closing major highways on the Nullarbor could cost the economy millions, with food shortages and price increases tipped for Perth.

www.abc.net.au

 

[2hats]

pols if this has gone up already, but...blimey

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See post #161 here.

 

[2hats]

 

[shakespearegirl]

they are trying to head home today. Looking on the emergency app it seems to mr there are still fires very close but the evacuation now warning has gone. Pissing down in Melbourne!

they are home safely, all houses still standing. Gentle, misty, lovely rain has been falling for 6 hours up there, bliss.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Shows how much smoke the fires have pumped into the atmosphere. It must be awful trying to breath in that.

 

[weltweit]

Rain? Excellent!

 

[albionism]

Never have I wanted it to piss down with rain so much.

 

[Mation]

I haven't the faintest idea of what's possible, but thought this was interesting.

We have to help each other mourn for what we all love and are losing day by day. But it is not too late to seek solutions from First Nations people who, if you care to ask, know how to do cultural burning to keep the fuel load down, and know where and when to do them.

Ask the First Nations people who are on the frontline on the south coast, like the Yuin crew of the Wreck Bay RFS, who fought blazes out the back of my home town for days over Christmas, and ask the others who are cooking meals, evacuating elders and opening their doors to people who have nowhere else to go.

For First Nations people the bushfires bring a particular grief, burning what makes us who we are | Lorena Allam

Our memories, our sacred places, we are losing what forever connects us to a place in the landscape. But we can help

www.theguardian.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's being reported that about 2m square miles has been burnt so far, an area about 8 times the size of the UK.

 

[MrSki]

Helicopter pilots getting good at this.

 

[lizzieloo]

Stunning photos of pyrocumulus over fires in Australia - Wildfire Today

They were taken on a flight from Canberra to Melbourne

wildfiretoday.com

 

[two sheds]

pyrocumulus

a new one on me

 

[bluescreen]

pyrocumulus

a new one on me

Also, pyrogenic lightning.

 

[lizzieloo]

pyrocumulus

a new one on me

Yeah, not sure of their use of "stunning" either.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

pyrocumulus

a new one on me

And me. What a dreadfully ominous phenomenon to have just learned about.

 

[two sheds]

Also, pyrogenic lightning.

And pyrocumulonimbus no not heard of that one either

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A number of devastating wildfires occurred in southeast Australia on 7 February 2009, colloquially known as Black Saturday. Atmospheric responses to this extreme fire event are investigated here with a focus on convective processes associated with fire activity (i.e., pyroconvection). We examine six different fire complexes on Black Saturday, finding three clearly distinct pyrocumulonimbus storms, the largest of which reached heights of 15 km on that day and generated hundreds of lightning strokes. The first lightning stroke was recorded near the largest fire complex 5 h after fire ignition. One of the pyrocumulonimbus storms was initiated close to midnight due to mesoscale influences, consistent with extreme fire behavior observed at that time for that particular fire.

 

[Humberto]

What is the political response abroad? Has anyone offered anything?

Just don't understand the paltry international response to such a disaster.

Even just good will messages. Or a fucking honest conversation.

 

[spring-peeper]

What is the political response abroad? Has anyone offered anything?

Just don't understand the paltry international response to such a disaster.

Even just good will messages. Or a fucking honest conversation.

As previously mentioned on this thread, New Zealand and Canada were in there before Christmas.
Canada is sending more.

The States are making a big production over how they may go and help.

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s way better than responses to other environmental disasters in poorer countries.

 

[Humberto]

There are supposed to be some ties between the UK and Aus. I haven't really seen any signs of fucks given by those who (over here in Britain) claim there is when it suits them.

 

[shakespearegirl]

The air quality in Melbourne has been awful for the last few days. But at least it’s been drizzly and cool, hope it’s heading the way of the fires..

 

[2hats]

Smoke has now crossed the Pacific and is turning up in South America...