Australia Had Its Driest Ever Year In 2019, With Rainfall Being 40% Lower Than The Average Recorded From 1900 To 2019 New South Wales And Victoria Have Been The Worst Affected States The Severity Of The Wildfires Are A Consequence Of Global Warming With ‘Climatic Extremes’ Now Being Widely Forecast Around The World
The current australian wildfire season is unprecedented in scope and impact—no state in australia has been spared. It may take a century or more for forests to absorb the co2 released so far during this season’s fires, one expert told the sydney morning herald. The bushfires’ impact on australia’s famed wildlife and the lands that hosted them left a far greater scar on the country when compared to the number of destroyed structures and the unfortunate loss of 34 persons.
1) Australia’s Fires Are Seriously Unprecedented.
The australia defence force had called 3,000 army reserve forces and other specialists to help fight these australian bushfires at least 150 firefighters from the united states have volunteered to combat these australian bushfires! There are currently more than 100 active fires in new south wales alone, with more than 2,000 homes already destroyed. Australia faced a devastating start to it’s fire season in late 2019, and things swiftly got worse before rains helped contain many of the worst fires in.
There Were Already 9,360 Fire Alerts In Just The First 10 Days Of 2020.
The number of fire alerts in new south wales in 2019 was roughly 4 times higher than any time in the past two decades. There were substantial property losses, as well as threats to lives and property that New south wales was hit the hardest, though no state was spared.
While Australia’s Highest Temperature Recorded In One Day Was 50.7 Degrees.
Since the fires started in september, at least 27 million acres in the country have burned, 29 people have died, and an estimated 1.25 billion animals have been lost. Around 126,000 square kilometres of land and thousands of buildings. According to the new york times, that area is six times the size of the 2019 amazon fires.
About 2,700 Firefighters Were Battling The Australian Bushfires And Three Have Been Killed.
According to the spring report from the australia bureau of meteorology, it was the driest spring on record for the country as a whole, with rainfall below average almost everywhere. That’s an area larger than portugal, and more than 14 times the area. Experts agree that high temperatures and prolonged dry conditions led to wildfire activity on an unprecedented scale.
