Wildfire … in December? : collapse

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When the fuck is California not on fire? I feel like I'm always hearing about it...

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bushfire season in Australia depends on where on the continent you are and falls between July and May.

December bushfires are extremely common and there's a monster roaring in the state of Victoria right now.

One of my mates was fighting a different fire about 90km from where I'm typing this. He came off shift at 3am yesterday morning after dealing with gruelling 40°C temperatures during the day.

Right now there's a total fire ban in my state of Western Australia. There's 10 current "bushfire advice" warnings and 30 bushfires in the last three days.

https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/textonly.html?view=map

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I'm dumb, I thought December was summertime in Australia

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 5 points 3 weeks ago

It is.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it was wild getting a red flag warning the other day. Like what the fuck is going on?

(We know why we just prefer to ignore it because it's not convenient to the rich)

[+] Wooki@lemmy.world -6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Welcome to the other half of the world, its called the southern hemisphere. Its seasons are inverse of the northern hemisphere.

It's not rocket science.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 15 points 3 weeks ago

The article is specifically about wildfires in the northern hemisphere in December. It's not a good evolution that it's turning into a year round phenomenon instead of seasonal.

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