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Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard
The next 30 days is Australias hottest period of the year, Mid Summer
I'm in central Sydney so only get smoke, the air quality here this summer is worse than Bejing. Out of Sydney, I have many friends who are evacuated or on evacuation notice.
As "NewbieNudes" called it.. "national catastrophe on an epic scale"
Local news if you want to follow.
https://www.smh.com.au/
Many nations around the world have sent in people to help, USA included.
Its 5am here now, the weather forecast for today is 46c/ 115f, Not where I live, I'm close to the ocean so sea breeze, Sydney goes inland a 100 miles nearly and the further from the coast you go, the hotter and dryer it gets. Millions of people today will be heading to the beach ;)
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/w...03-p53onw.html |
going to have an economic effect as well, possibly long term
Land Acreage total statistics - States compared - StateMaster
perspective
California fires...
About 8.8 million acres were burned in 2018, compared with 10 million in 2017. The Mendocino Complex Fire broke out on July 27 in Northern California and grew to be the largest fire in state history with 459,123 acres burned
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/f...tics-wildfires