Australia bushfires - Massive RAIN BOMB to bring much-needed relief but could cause deadly LANDSLIDES

A MASSIVE 'rain bomb' is forecast to bring relief from Australia's devastating bushfires - but the downpours could cause dangerous landslides.which has been deemed the worst season since records began.A firefighter hosesdown trees and flying embers in an effort to secure nearby houses from bushfires near the town of Nowra in the Australian state of New South Wales.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service joyfully tweeted the map, with the caption: “If this rainfall forecast comes to fruition then this will be all of our Christmas, birthday, engagement, anniversary, wedding and graduation presents rolled into one. Fingers crossed.

Sydney, which recently experiences scorching temperatures of 50C, will receive a significant downpour, with between 2-8mm of rain on Thursday and 5-10mm on Friday.Meteorologist Gabrielle Woodhouse of the Australian Buerau of Meteorology said: “We are looking at a couple of days in a row of some showers and thunderstorms, some of which may produce significant accumulation over those couple of days.

'It will be quite welcome but there are some extra dangers and risks associated with it as the landscape is quite vulnerable with the fire damage. We've lost a lot of vegetations and there is the risk of landslips.

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