Experts believe that the bushfire risk is mounting after three years of high rainfall. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Amid the brutally cold winter weather in Sydney in recent days, the distinctive smell of bushfire smoke hangs, disconcertingly, in the air.
El Nino is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in South-east Asia and Australia, usually leading to less rain. La Nina, the flip side to El Nino, brings warmer waters to the Western Pacific and cooler and wetter weather to the region.
Experts believe that the bushfire risk is mounting in 2023 because Australia has just experienced three years of La Nina events, which brought cooler, wetter weather that helped forests to regrow following the Black Summer fires. The bushfires have become “different” and “terrifying” and “uncontrollable”, a worrying phenomenon that he says is due to climate change.
A triple La Nina, or “triple-dip” La Nina, refers to the event lasting three consecutive years, which is rare. Firefighters tackle a bushfire in thick smoke in the town of Moruya, south of Batemans Bay, in New South Wales, on Jan 4, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
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