The warmest winter on record, followed by an unusually warm and dry spring.
Hundreds of fires along Australia’s east coast, including one that razed 53 homes in Queensland.
It’s not yet summer, but Australia’s fire season is well underway, in the latest example of how climate change is altering the rhythms of life across the Earth.
Stoked by the El Niño weather pattern, it is the first dry and hot year since the Black Summer of 2019-2020.
“We’re still at the very beginning of the fire reason, and already we’ve had hundreds of fires since early October,” Western Australia’s emergency services minister, Stephen Dawson, said on Friday.
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