Australia Fires - ScienceNerds

Australia is not a stranger to wildfires, every year during summer the bushfires are seen in the New South Wales and Victoria (South-east Australia )

                                                                                                                                                                   

       A bushfire, which started on 11th Oct, approximately 120 km south-east to Broome, burned off the field of around 22,00,000 acres. This time the fires were predicted to last for few months thanks to extremely dry weather and heat.

Source: DAFF and Local Fire Services, 6 Jan

Some serious bushfires within the history of Australia :

• The 1851 Black Thursday bushfires
• Ash Wednesday the bushfires of Australia were a series of fires that went through south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983.
• Bushfires in Australia affects massive areas and cause property damage and caused deaths of 800 people and many Animals in Australia since 1851.

Causes

                                                                                                            

Bushfires can be triggered by natural events such as lightning, but more frequently by human activities such as arching from powerlines, campfire, accidental ignition in the course of agricultural clearing, sparks from machinery, cigarettes.

Why do bushfires 2019-20 causing so much damage?

every year there is a season of the fireplace during summer in Australian summer, with hot, dry weather making it easy for blazes to start out and spread. Natural causes are responsible most of the time, like lightning strikes in drought-affected forests.

The hot, dry and windy weather has precipitated an early and grisly start to the present year's fire season. thanks to the long-term drought in southern Western Australia, the Australian Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC anticipated an eventful fire season for 2019-2020. Smoke from the fires has blown half-way round the world.

Bushfires are every day include in Australia's schedule often triggered by natural causes like lightning strikes & can't be blamed on global weather change or increasing greenhouse emission emissions alone.

The flames are exacerbated by 40C temperatures and amazing breezes, making troublesome conditions for a great many firemen sent inside the field.

Short rainfalls since 2017 :
                                                                                                     
As indicated by the Bureau of Meteorology, 80% of the field gets however 600 mm of precipitation yearly and a half has even yet 300mm. As an entire, Australia features a very low annual average rainfall of 419 mm.

An Artist's visualisation of fires over the past few months

~sciencefreak