On top of El Niño, there’s another climate fluctuation in the mix that amps up the likelihood of heat and drought.
A fire rages in Bobin, 350 km north of Sydney, on November 9, 2019, during Australia's catastrophic Black Summer fire season.
A combination of extreme heat and wind would likely fuel very intense fires “that will seem to come from nowhere,” he added.
Whether summer heat will be unprecedented remains uncertain.
“Increasing extreme heat is the clearest example,”he said, but it’s worsening the impacts of drought and extreme rain too.
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