Winter is...[hang on]

"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly) 08/15/2018 at 19:28 • Filed to: None

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Winter is still here!!! So why is everything on fire?

Smoke from a large bushfire burning in the Bega Valley, southeast NSW, Australia 15th August 2018

South eastern Oz is deep into drought with much of the State having no significant rain since the start of the year and not much in the previous year.

Current forecasts suggest that little rain and high temperatures will be a feature of our coming summer. If we go into next winter like this then our country is in uncharted territory.

What concerns me more at the moment is that a spate of difficult bush fires have kicked off in late Winter on the NSW South Coast.

Now late Winter fires are not unheard of but they are more likely on the North Coast of NSW because it is warmer there and dries out a bit over winter as rainfall there is summer dominant.

This is not a good sign.

And it all hits home because the Boss left this morning as part of a four vehicle fleet and eight person crew from our region to spend a week down there fighting said fires.

The Lad and I are not really looking forward to this fire season...

BaconSandwich is tasty. > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/15/2018 at 20:01

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Yikes.

We're having fire issues up here as well. It seems like half of British Columbia is on fire, and all the smoke is blowing into Alberta.

fintail > BaconSandwich is tasty. 08/15/2018 at 21:32

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And south to Seattle, some say today’s air quality is the worst on record, due to smoke from fires.  Although I think it was as last as bad or worse last year (I remember one day we even had ash falling).

DipodomysDeserti > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/16/2018 at 03:10

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DipodomysDeserti > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/16/2018 at 03:19

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Big fires burning in the northern and southern hemispheres at the same time. Not a good sign. Saw lots of bleached coral while snorkling in Hawaii the last few weeks along with plastic filled beaches. Good times.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > DipodomysDeserti 08/16/2018 at 04:34

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Ah well. They tell me the end is just the beginning repeating...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > DipodomysDeserti 08/16/2018 at 04:37

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Short. Fast. Loud. Must be true.

pip bip - choose Corrour > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/16/2018 at 06:26

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not good at all

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/16/2018 at 06:56

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Not happy at all. Fortunately, the Boss and her convoy have arrived in Bega and they’ll fix it!!

DipodomysDeserti > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/16/2018 at 12:13

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Yep. Until the sun swallows the Earth.