Wet weather delays fire season preparation as rain set to continue to for months | Laura_R_Chung
In the latest financial year, the agency has treated 40,000 hectares through burning, grazing and clearing efforts – which will offer asset protection to 47,000 homes – well short of its 102,600-hectare target. The previous financial year saw 176,000 hectares burnt.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s outlook for August to October has forecast above-average rainfall from eastern Queensland to the NSW South Coast, with parts of Victoria and the Northern Territory likely to also experience heavy rainfall. He added that it would probably be some months before the agency is able to declare a third successive La Nina event, and if climate drivers are strong, it would provide greater confidence to authorities of the risk of a wet summer.Johnson added that the impacts of climate change were already being experienced, including more intense rainfall events, lengthening fire seasons, and declining rainfall trends in south-west Western Australia and the south-east corner of Australia.
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