Just looking at what we’ve seen already, this is a major concern that fire seasons seem to be starting earlier and lasting longer. We’ve got to get a greater understanding on this, on the frequency of fires, the earlier start to the season and if there’s any connection to climate change.
If you’re talking about the driest August on record and the warmest August on record and you set that against a period of drought, then you would have to be concerned that this could be a bad fire season.
The agencies, no doubt, will be taking precautions and would be stressing that people who lived in properties at risk of bushfires make very, very serious preparations for potentially a very bad season.
Kevin O’Loughlin, Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre, Melbourne.
Photograph courtesy Jimmy Deguara
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