In a rapidly warming climate, the recent welcome, replenishing rains are a double-edged sword. What grows fast can also easily, and quickly, dry out then burn.
, reaches over two metres high, showing few traces of where the blaze tore through, apart from the skeletons of tall trees killed by the intense fires.
West of the great divide, Australia’s deserts, usually too parched and barren to burn, are turning green with prolific grass growth due to the rains. It is inevitable, as they do after every La Nina, that the new grasslands will eventually wither and die. They will then probably burn. We also had floods in NSW and Victoria, while bushfires raged and destroyed homes in the Perth Hills. Sound familiar? Already there have been major fires in WA and Tasmania as floods and storms ravage the east.earlier this month. After working for two days helping others, I spent a day clearing fallen trees from my property.
They weren’t particularly problematic, because grass fires are less intense than forest fires, and the weather conditions were hot, but rarely windy.
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