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Download How Does Wind Affect Bushfires? PNG. It can change bushfire activity in a moment, shifting the flank of the fire to the fire front, suddenly putting fire fighters and communities at risk. A change in wind can also change the rate of fire spread, increase the quantity, distance and direction of downstream spotting, and change the safety status.

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So, as air temperature increases, fuel moisture content tends to decrease, and vice versa. In southern australia, cold fronts are probably the most powerful influence on our fire weather. Bushfire recovery project.griffith university and the australian national university.

During fires at jindabyne and adjacent areas it was common knowledge to local residents that the surrounding mountain range had the potential to change a westerly wind at the southern tip of the ranges to a south/westerly and further northward along the eastern side of the range to a south/easterly to easterly wind.

Wind change matters to fire managers. The catastrophic bushfire season we are currently experiencing in australia is a clear example of the impacts of climate change playing out before our eyes. During fires at jindabyne and adjacent areas it was common knowledge to local residents that the surrounding mountain range had the potential to change a westerly wind at the southern tip of the ranges to a south/westerly and further northward along the eastern side of the range to a south/easterly to easterly wind. Wind speed has a linear relationship with the speed of the bushfire;