Bushfires 2019/2020!

[Flying mermaid]

Some more fire photos

'I've never seen bushland where the trees have become sticks': Fire carnage seen from the air

The ABC is given a flyover of the fire ground above the New South Wales Southern Highlands, about 100 kilometres south-west of Sydney. Before the fires, there has always been one constant in this lush landscape: green. But not anymore.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Flying mermaid]

Finally seem to be getting significant rain in the Snowy area. Just what was needed!

 

[juddles]

I feel for those who sufferred the last round of bushfires. As I also feel for those who during my 5 decades of life I have seen suffer droughts / floods / hail-destroyed crops / cyclones / loved-ones lost through war (yes - I have lived away from Aussie during its current peace time) / terrorism / economical annihilation / etc etc.

My guess is that in about a month the media bombardment will slow, within 6 mths this last season will rate no news as everyone moves to other things. But the reality is that bush fires are a part of Aussie life. How many people will be donating to bush fire causes come next winter? How many celebrities will be doing symbolic acts by then?

None. yet the dangers of bush fires will be as great as ever....

This is what gets me about modern society - we need to foster and support such things even when they are not just flavour of the month. Every year it seems memories are shorter....

 

[Pushka]

And some rain in Adelaide but not much for KI.
A poem taught to kids in the 1960s. Known to many here. Written in the early 1990s
One of the stanzas starts with

"I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains”

 

[RooFlyer]

Dorothy knew her stuff

I think a typo though, written early 1900s (1908 when she was 19)

 

[RooFlyer]

I am corrected by a kindly PMing member that it’s ‘Dorothea’.

 

[Pushka]

Dorothy knew her stuff

I think a typo though, written early 1900s (1908 when she was 19)

Wiki says otherwise. Started writing it in 1904! When she was 19.

Why did someone PM you and not post here?

 

[Deleted member]

I needed to remind myself that the poem (much longer than I remember) has a first verse which provides more context for that famous second verse.
We in Australia have been blessed with some amazing writers / poets who have captured the very essence of the land and the fierce forces which have defined it.

 

[RooFlyer]

Why did someone PM you and not post here?

A kindly soul, I think to save my blushes!

 

[Pushka]

A kindly soul, I think to save my blushes!

But you were correcting me! I guess they are kinder than you then!

 

[RooFlyer]

But you were correcting me! I guess they are kinder than you then!

I thought that might be a reaction, after i posted. I'm sure they are! .

 

[drron]

This verse of Dorothea's poem is more applicable in this thread.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze

 

[lovetravellingoz]

This verse of Dorothea's poem is more applicable in this thread.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze

Yes we are a land of cycles.

Our weather is in large part driven by the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), El Nino and Ln Nina. However the IOD being is largely unkown by many Australians.

With the IOD having recently returned to neutral we have seen moist air once again over Australia, and in turn rain.

While the global warming have seen most in the media, and in turn the general public, sheeting the fires home to global warming in large part the dryness and in turn the firs are the result of natural cycles. Global warming may of course have exacerbated things but the main villain has been the Indian Ocean Dipole.



Indian Ocean Dipole returns to neutral
The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has returned to neutral after one of the strongest positive IOD events to impact Australia in recent history. The IOD is expected to remain neutral in the coming months, meaning that it will have little influence on Australian and global climate.
However, the IOD’s legacy of widespread warm and dry conditions during the second half of 2019 primed the Australian landscape for bushfire weather and heatwaves this summer.
In the Pacific Ocean, although indicators of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are neutral, the tropical ocean near and to the west of the Date Line remains warmer than average, potentially drawing some moisture away from Australia.
Most climate models indicate ENSO will remain neutral until at least the end of the southern hemisphere autumn, meaning it will have limited influence on Australian and global climate.


What is the Indian Ocean Dipole? : See Indian Ocean climate influences

 

[Deleted member]

I always thought the Netherlands was the land of cycles .... (lol)

 

[Quickstatus]

Ditto with cyclones and floods.....

Ditto with bushfires and floods

 

[Quickstatus]

I'm sure everyone's had the experience of having torrential rain at their place with little in the official gauge a km or so away, or vice-versa.

Or the other way around for us. Our rain gauge says 15mm (coughulative)

Some areas not getting much especially regional NSW

Hopefully the rains in SE QLD and NE NSW will result in some water flowing down the Darling rivers

We use Netatmo as the IoT rain gauge

 

[get me outta here]

Near CBR airport - fire out of control | ACT Emergency Services Agency.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Near CBR airport - fire out of control | ACT Emergency Services Agency.

That’s the Oaks estate one? Hope it doesn’t get into the Pialligo area - so many beautiful nurseries and speciality shops there

 

[get me outta here]

Hope it doesn’t get into what’s left of the Redwood forest.

That’s the Oaks estate one? Hope it doesn’t get into the Pialligo area - so many beautiful nurseries and speciality shops there

 

[Flying mermaid]

Hope it doesn’t get into what’s left of the Redwood forest.

They seem to be throwing everything they can at it. High winds tomorrow might be more of an issue.