December 13, 2006
Still smokin'
This morning we woke to a brown sky, red sun and the smell of smoke. This photo was taken at 8.30am! The wind is coming from the NE again and the smoke from the burning alps is blanketing Melbourne. The only time I've seen anything like this was 1983, during the Ash Wednesday bushfires. The only time worse than that recorded by Europeans is the infamous Black Friday fires in 1939. But Ash Wednesday didn't happen until February and the end of a long hot summer. Its now December and the summer has only just started. God knows what it will be like by March.
Posted by Faith