Climate change will make fire storms more likely in southeastern Australia

Temperatures across many regions of Australia are set to exceed 40℃ this week, including heatwaves forecast throughout parts of eastern Australia, raising the spectre of more devastating bushfires.

Last year fire storms raged across California.
Similar conditions could become more likely for Australia.

We have already heard warnings this fire season of the possibility of firestorms, created when extreme fires in the right conditions form their own weather systems. 

Firestorms are the common term for pyrocumulonimbus bushfires – fires so intense they create their own thunderstorms, extreme winds, black hail, and lightning. 

While they are very rare, our research published earlier this year, found climate change is making it likely they will become more common in parts of southeast Australia.

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