Record drought. Record heat. Unstoppable fires. Fire experts say Australia's Black Summer is being repeated in the United States.
Australian fire scientist Owen Price from the University of Wollongong echoed Mr Pimlott's comparison."Parts of New South Wales and Victoria were experiencing their deepest drought on record since records began in the early 1900s. And there were certain days in New South Wales that broke the temperature records during these fires, and also fire danger records.This map from the Bureau of Meteorology shows the drying trend in southern Australia.
"We know that vapor pressure deficit [VPD], a measure of vegetation water stress, has been tied to high severity fire in the western United States," she said. BOM said in a statement that in the spring and early summer of 2019, exceptionally low or record-low relative humidity was observed at a number of locations in Australia where fires occurred.
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