Yeah its the East coast mate from the middle of New South Wales up to Queeensland is worse some have joined up and totally out of control flames hunderds of feet high in spots. Firemen report that they create their own wether patterns around the fires drawing air into them from all directions. We have some smaller fires around here and when you view them all on a map, it looks like hell on earth. Safe here in Victoria atm as we have south winds and we are south of the major fires but when it blows northerly we are in smoke from 500 kilometers away so its massive. It all makes the one burning in the Amazon look small too in size we are millions of acres gone . Too dry here,not a good rainfall in winter,the weather patterns have changed due to stripping forests back into farming lands no trees so it rains elsewhere.Is from the Elnino pattern too,warm ocean currents reversing down the East coast apparently keeping some of low pressure systems slightly further south and offshore more so we just get grazed by the top of them here in the south now. We had 43 Celsius the other day here just one day, thats about 113 Fahrenheit and broke records for some places, but no major fires thank God.We have our driest months ahead in JAn and Feb so who knows what it'll bring,another problem here are the amount of Eucalyptus trees inland and tea trees around the coasts, they have volatile oil in them both so just explode into flames.
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