After weeks on end with images of giant flames, blood-red sky and thick røgskyer it was a drastic change of weather that hit southeastern Australia Sunday.
In the course of the past week has the province received any tremendously much-needed rain, and over the weekend were the cities of Melbourne and Canberra hit by more extreme precipitation.
the Cities were hit by hail the size of golf balls, who smashed cars and ‘ripped trees’, as a resident in Melbourne Krystian Seibert beskrever it over to the Herald Sun, according to the News.com.au.
– Haglene sounded like a pinball machine with hail the size of golf balls fell.
– I have lived a long time in Melbourne, and I have never seen or experienced anything like it here.
at the same time, in spite of the recent week’s rain is still more than 100 fires started in the federal states of Victoria and New South Wales.
The heavy rainfall has conversely meant that there has arisen a new problem in the form of floods in several places.
– There are risks associated with it, so it is not always a good thing, especially not if the rain falls too quickly.
– What we need is a steady pouring rain, said meteorologist at Australia’s meteorological department Jake Phillips to the news agency Reuters.
Biologists estimate that up to one billion animals have lost their lives in the fires, writes the news agency DPA.
Australia’s government has put a 50 million australian dollars, equivalent to 231 million dollars to the side for the reconstruction of the country’s nature and animals, writes DPA.
Australia had in the 2019 its warmest and driest year ever.
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the Fires have resulted in poor air quality, which tennisspilleren Dalila Jakupovic got to feel during the Australian Open in Melbourne. Here she gets a hosteanfald during a match. Video: Reuters via Ritzau Scanpix
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over the last few months have apocalyptic images like these dominated the news from Australia. Video: Storyful via AP
