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With the catastrophic wildfires of the past season in recent memory, Australia is shaking ahead of the summer season this year. This weekend, the first heat wave stops in the southeastern part of the country.
People cool off on Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Temperatures above 40 degrees are warned in the Sydney metropolitan area and authorities advise people to stay indoors. Australia crouches when the first big pressure of the summer season comes just in time for the weekend, Reuters reports.
During last season’s record fires, 33 people and several billion animals died.
This year, although there was a lot of rain in early spring, which has so far reduced the risk of fires, but the rain did not occur in November and the month seems to go down in history as one of the warmest months of November so far according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for Meteorology. (Boom).
– November has been unusual in many ways. Only about half of the normal rainfall has come in and November is quite possibly the hottest November we’ve ever measured, says Andrew Watkins, head of weather operations at Bom.
Last season’s unusually long wildfire season was caused by three years of drought. This year, instead, there is a risk of grass fires, as the grass had a chance to grow during the wet spring.
– Lawn may be greener, but it doesn’t take long to dry out when the summer heat hits, says Richard Thornton, executive director of the Bushfire and Natural Hazard Cooperative Research Center.
