Thread: Fires in the NE Victoria

That could explain the beautiful sunset last night. There was a great band of fire red and orange out that way in the middle of the sky.

not good at all

thats the main reason why myself and the family WILL NOT be camping anywhere near the high country this year

way to dry already

Yeah and I was going up to Wonnangatta next weekend .... looks like that's off
WTF's going on ? This is normally one of the best times of year for high cointry trips.

Lightening strikes

Originally Posted by waynep

Yeah and I was going up to Wonnangatta next weekend .... looks like that's off
WTF's going on ? This is normally one of the best times of year for high cointry trips.

oh well you can come and have a beer instead

its not good news at all

The high country is the driest I have ever seen it... and given that the rivers are barely flowing, and a hot summer is expected I don't imagine I will be going much over summer.

Hopefully they can control these fires before some really hot northly weather sets in.

Was in Bright this weekend, had lots of lightning on Friday night, nows there's spot fires all over the place, very smokey

This is a symptom of the worsening drought as well as "climate change?" Normally the fire seasons start in the north (qld/nsw) and move progressively south, it would appear that the predictions of the whole of SE Aus coming into a fire season at once are true. There a literally fires all the way from Qld-SA. Some of them are very extensive - Pilliga fire (NSW) around the 80000Ha, Wollemi fire (NSW) around 70000Ha, Riverland fire SA @ 115000Ha coupled with all the fires in the NE Vic (that normally wouldn't be ready to burn until late Jan/Feb.

Unless we get some significant and well spaced rain things won't get any better.

http://sentinel.ga.gov.au/acres/sentinel/index.shtml

Theres a reason I'm here typing this and not at the NSW gathering this weekend


Martyn