Climate change could lead to increase in dangerous firestorms that were once 'rare'

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The race to understand this once 'rare' weather event.

Professor Sharples is also a volunteer firefighter in the ACT and said he has been through an area ravaged by a pyroCB once. It was in the aftermath of the Black Saturday 2009 fires and he said the scene was "like a bomb had gone off".

The storms can cause unpredictable changes in fire behaviour, making it more dangerous for firefighters and nearby communities. "This season has been unprecedented [for pyroCBs]... we've seen multiple pyroCBs developing on the same day over individual fires," she said. "Some days, state operations issued five or six alerts for different fires around the state because of pyrocumulus columns. [PyroCB] are a big concern. We'll be seeing more and more as a feature for the future," Dr Heemstra said.

Over this fire season, NSW experienced several pyroCB events, including during the Gospers Mountain fire."I was underneath it when it went pyrocumulonimbus, there was rain, hail and lightning all around the area. I was in a burnt-out area so I was safe, but there were strong winds, and, in particular, lightning ahead of the actual fire front and the storm," he said.

 

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Maybe it helps installing lightning arresters into forests. Is there a cheap version to mass produce, so they can be installed into forests?

You said the science was settled! Be honest, we know very little about climate and weather, which is why all the predictions have been wrong.

Not enough to catastrophise about already?

In the 1970's the CSIRO (Scientists) were dropping pellets out of light aircraft in remote bushland. These pellets ignited on impact and burnt the fuel load. Bushfire's where gum trees still have green leaves in them. Go to any area that has had regular hazard reduction and look.

Root cause is unprecedented high fuel loads.

Could Really, is that the best you can offer. I could maybe potentially hopefully have sex with Margot Robbie....

Lets get back to stories about UFOs and little Green men.

Maybe they're being observed more often. It's amazing how you won't notice that which you're not aware of.

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