Australian bushfires - Authorities warn about weather systems

6 Jan 2020

Australian bushfires – Authorities warn about weather systems

Australian bushfires – Authorities warn about weather systemsWe recently read about mass evacuation orders in Australia because of wildfires.

Now, the intense heat producing wildfires are creating their own weather systems. These systems include dry lightning storms and fire tornadoes.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) warned about a coastal fire, which was generating its own weather system.
 	A fire-generated thunderstorm has formed over the Currowan fire on the northern edge of the fire near Nowra, Australia.
 	The weather conditions are the results of the pyrocumulonimbus (fire-breathing) clouds, which are recorded all over the world.
 	As the global climate changes, such cloud formations are predicted to frequently occur in Australia.
 	Fire tornados are causing calamities such as killing of a RFS firefighter and cyclonic base sliding in the area.

Such unpredictable fire-behaviours are causing lighting strikes, which can in turn ignite new fires.

In the state of Victoria, one of the worst affected states of Australia, a Sikh couple, who own Desi Grill restaurant. They are serving between 500-1,000 meals every day. They believe that they are following the Sikh culture by serving free meals in times of need.

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