Unusual weather events identified during the Black Saturday bushfires

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 09:00 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) -- Research has revealed that the extremely hot, dry and windy conditions on Black Saturday combined with structures in the atmosphere called 'horizontal convective rolls' -similar to streamers of wind flowing through the air - which likely affected fire behaviour.

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