Hello and welcome to Its Tomorrow News. I'm Sara Himmani. Australia bushfires could be the most dangerous since Black Summer. Bush fires have been ravaging Australia with more than 50 burning throughout New South Wales, destroying homes and causing at least one death. Nine blazes remained out of control on Monday as flames ripped through homes and critical infrastructure
Scorching temperatures peaking at 41° C 105.8 F in Kle Wong combined with fierce erratic winds to spread the fires rapidly and made them harder to control.
On Sunday night, an Australian firefighter was killed after a tree fell on him while he worked on a fire near Bula about 150 mi north of Sydney. The blaze scorched 3,500 hectares and destroyed four homes over the weekend.
New South Wales, one of Australia's most fireprone regions, is particularly vulnerable because of its hot, dry climate and vast eucalyptus forest, which shed oils that become highly flammable. Farther south, Tasmania faced its own emergency with a fastmoving 700 hectare fire at Dolphin Sands, destroying 19 homes and damaging at least 40 more living coastal communities.
Authorities warned the heightened bushfire threat is being fueled by rising temperatures and a dangerous buildup of vegetation. Previous years of La Nina weather systems had unusually wet summers, resulting in dense growth across forests and grasslands.
However, recent months of below average rainfall have rapidly dried the vegetation, turning it into abandoned volatile fuel. With the season already labeled as high risk, many fear this could be Australia's most dangerous summer since the Black Summer fires of 2019-20.
Meanwhile, the US state of Washington is bracing for dangerous flooding as an atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest. Authorities issued immediate evacuation orders for about 10,000 residents on Thursday as relentless rain plummeted the region for another day. In just 24 hours, northwest Washington has been hit with 120 to 205 millimeter of rainfall with flooding for Cascade Foothills to Puget Sound expected to worsen through Friday.
Rivers across the state are surging towards their most severe flood classifications with several threatening to break historic records. The Skagget River, one of Washington's largest, is forecast to crest 6 ft above its previous peak. That's all for now.
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[KE: Everything climate scientists predicted about global warming/ climate change since the 1970s is coming true, only faster]
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