Hi Andrew, they just show in the german television that there are great fires in tasmania with a lot of damage. hope you and your family surive the heat. good luck to you!!!http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925657#msg-925657Wed, 22 May 2013 14:33:47 +1000 Phorum 5.2.16 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925879#msg-925879 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925879#msg-925879
We won't know for sure for a day or so but it seems there's some amazing stats that are about to be released. It's predicted that Australia will have it's 2 highest average temperature days in history two days in a row (yesterday and today).

For the first time in history it's expected that the average temp across the entire country/continent (something like 80-85% the size of the USA) will be above 40C which to me is an amazing stat...........and 2 days running.

Another interesting stat I heard the other day was that during the Black Saturday fires here in 2009 - which got within a few kilometres of me- the death toll from the fires of 173 (and of course thousands of properties) was dwarfed by the almost 400 who died from heat related illness.

Stay safe (and cool) everyone]]> the ORIGINAL brent NoticeboardTue, 08 Jan 2013 13:10:17 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925697#msg-925697 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925697#msg-925697
3 major fires still out of control and 20 others burning, and a week of hot conditions still ahead. So very hard time for the state.]]> Andrew NoticeboardSun, 06 Jan 2013 10:44:58 +1100 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925657#msg-925657 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,925657,925657#msg-925657 grimbsel NoticeboardSun, 06 Jan 2013 06:38:48 +1100