Climate Changed
Climate Change Will Bring More Fire Tornadoes to Australia
- “Pyrocumulonimbus wildfires” are almost impossible to control
- Canberra, Melbourne among areas facing increased risk
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Fire tornadoes are set to become a more common feature of the Australian landscape as climate change takes hold later this century.
That’s according to new research from the University of New South Wales’s Climate Change Research Centre in Sydney, which found the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuel “catastrophic pyrocumulonimbus wildfires” are not only likely to occur more frequently in southeast Australia, but also earlier in the spring and summer.