Experts warn extreme bushfire weather risk growing

Climate experts have warned the weather system fuelling this week's catastrophic bushfires across south-eastern Australia will be up to four times more likely to occur under forecast levels of global warming.

Hot, dry westerly winds created extreme bushfire
 conditions in south-east Australia this week.

This particular weather event occurs when a low-pressure system from the Southern Ocean races north and collides with a high-pressure system on the NSW coast. The two systems then force hot, dry air from inland Australia out towards the coast, resulting in strong westerly winds for days, before an abrupt southerly change when the cold front sweeps past.

Read the story from The Age by Mike Foley - “Experts warn extreme bushfire weather risk growing.”