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Record-shattering heat, strong winds cause Australia's bush fire crisis to escalate International Jan 05. 2020 As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. By The Washington Post · Andrew Freedman As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. But the disaster facing the country is nowhere near over.Ahead of a cold front moving from southwest to northeast, strong, dry winds out of the northwest helped instigate new blazes, vaulting embers from fire lines into areas not already ablaze. The fires knocked out power and water in some communities and forced the government to call up the military to assist in firefighting efforts.As of Saturday morning, the Rural Fire Service of New South Wales was still issuing emergency warnings, the most severe level, containing dire language: "The fire is spreading quickly. If you are in Tallong, Werai, Exeter, Manchester Square, Avoca, Fitzroy Falls, Barrengary or surrounding areas it is too late to leave. Seek shelter as fire approaches," read one emergency warning for the Morton Fire.Because the cold front is still making its way through the area of most intense fire activity, the hottest part of the day came and went with little to no relief. This allowed temperatures to soar to what appears to be a record high temperature for Sydney, with Penrith, located in the far western reaches of the metropolitan area, hitting 120 degrees (48.9 Celsius). In addition, Canberra, the nation's capital, hit a record high of 110 degrees (43.6 Celsius), breaking the previous record of 109 degrees set in 1939.Many of the fires that intensified on Saturday developed smoke plumes that were vaulted high into the atmosphere. Some of them turned into what are known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorms birthed by the combination of rising heat, smoke particles and water vapor from a major fire. At one point on Saturday, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology issued a thunderstorm warning for storms generated by smoke plumes.These pyroCb clouds, as they are known in the meteorology community, typically indicate that a fire is exhibiting extreme behavior, since they help a blaze draw in more surrounding air and can shift surface winds while also giving rise to fire tornadoes. A young firefighter in Australia died when a fire tornado overturned his vehicle.On Friday into Saturday, fires also erupted in other parts of Australia, including a destructive blaze on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. That island is home to a nature preserve that contains numerous unique species. Fires have devastated habitat for iconic animals that are only found in Australia, including koalas and rare birds, though the toll on wildlife won't be fully known for some time.Bush fires are expected to continue burning through the weekend and in the weeks and months to come as Australia enters its dry season in a precariously hot and desiccated position. However, the fire weather forecast for the next few days features cooler weather, which could help weary firefighters hold flames back behind containment lines.Last year was the hottest and driest year on record in the country, and December turned out to be one of the top 2 hottest months ever recorded. December featured the country's hottest day on record as well. No significant rain is expected in the hardest-hit areas of New South Wales and Victoria for months.While bush fires are a regular occurrence during the Australian dry season, a combination of long-term climate change and natural variability is making the situation far worse.Human-caused global warming is raising the odds of and severity of extreme-heat events and also adding to the severity of wildfires by speeding the drying of the landscape, among other influences. One of the most robust conclusions of climate studies has been that human-caused warming would increase the frequency and severity of heat waves and also boost the occurrence of days with extreme fire danger.Both trends are playing out in Australia right now, a country that has recently seen other severe climate impacts in the form of marine heat waves that devastated parts of the Great Barrier Reef.The southern part of Australia has warmed by 2.7 degrees since 1950, according to climate researcher Zeke Hausfather, climate and energy director at The Breakthrough Institute. This is consistent with the period of faster human-caused warming worldwide.The unusually warm and dry year in Australia is also due in part to a weather pattern that has set up across the Indian Ocean. It's known as the Indian Ocean Dipole, or IOD, which is an air circulation pattern in the Indian Ocean. When the IOD is in its positive phase, the water is cooler than average off the coast of Sumatra, leading to reduced atmospheric lift there and reduced rainfall over Australia, and there are warmer-than-average waters off the coast of Africa.A positive IOD the past two years has meant drier-than-average conditions in much of Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology found that it's unusual to have back-to-back years with a positive dipole, which helps influence precipitation patterns across South Asia and Oceania.This natural climate cycle is changing over time as ocean and air temperatures rise in response to increased amounts of greenhouse gases in the air because of human activities, namely the burning of fossil fuels for energy. This is expected to make back-to-back positive IOD events more common and make Australia even more prone to drought conditions accompanied by extreme heat."While the IOD is a natural mode of variability, its behavior is changing in response to climate change. Research suggests that the frequency of positive IOD events, and particularly the occurrence of consecutive events will increase as global temperatures rise," the bureau stated.The scale of the ongoing disaster in Australia is difficult to fathom even for those on the ground. At least 12 million acres have gone up in smoke so far in Victoria and New South Wales alone, which dwarfs the amount of land that burned in California's worst fire season in 2018. It's equivalent to the burning of the entire state of West Virginia.Smoke from the blazes has made it to South America, a journey of 9,000 miles, and some may stay aloft for months, having a small effect on the planet's climate.On the ground, though, residents in affected areas feel helpless and scared, and increasingly weary.Rebecca Butterworth, a house painter and journalist in Albury, a city in southern New South Wales, says it's been surreal to hear the small towns in the picturesque Murray-Darling Basin, some of which have populations under 100, mentioned on national newscasts."The signal for 'leave' is a red rimmed triangle with a black interior, and a little traffic light guy at full hock within it. It's just hanging everywhere," she said in an email. #ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย

Record-shattering heat, strong winds cause Australia’s bush fire crisis to escalate International Jan 05. 2020 As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. By The Washington Post · Andrew Freedman As authorities feared, Australia saw a dramatic escalation of its wildfire crisis on Friday night and Saturday, with the hardest-hit state this time being New South Wales. It will take another day for fire a to ease as temperatures drop but winds remain high. But the disaster facing the country is nowhere near over.Ahead of a cold front moving from southwest to northeast, strong, dry winds out of the northwest helped instigate new blazes, vaulting embers from fire lines into areas not already ablaze. The fires knocked out power and water in some communities and forced the government to call up the military to assist in firefighting efforts.As of Saturday morning, the Rural Fire Service of New South Wales was still issuing emergency warnings, the most severe level, containing dire language: “The fire is spreading quickly. If you are in Tallong, Werai, Exeter, Manchester Square, Avoca, Fitzroy Falls, Barrengary or surrounding areas it is too late to leave. Seek shelter as fire approaches,” read one emergency warning for the Morton Fire.Because the cold front is still making its way through the area of most intense fire activity, the hottest part of the day came and went with little to no relief. This allowed temperatures to soar to what appears to be a record high temperature for Sydney, with Penrith, located in the far western reaches of the metropolitan area, hitting 120 degrees (48.9 Celsius). In addition, Canberra, the nation’s capital, hit a record high of 110 degrees (43.6 Celsius), breaking the previous record of 109 degrees set in 1939.Many of the fires that intensified on Saturday developed smoke plumes that were vaulted high into the atmosphere. Some of them turned into what are known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which are thunderstorms birthed by the combination of rising heat, smoke particles and water vapor from a major fire. At one point on Saturday, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology issued a thunderstorm warning for storms generated by smoke plumes.These pyroCb clouds, as they are known in the meteorology community, typically indicate that a fire is exhibiting extreme behavior, since they help a blaze draw in more surrounding air and can shift surface winds while also giving rise to fire tornadoes. A young firefighter in Australia died when a fire tornado overturned his vehicle.On Friday into Saturday, fires also erupted in other parts of Australia, including a destructive blaze on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. That island is home to a nature preserve that contains numerous unique species. Fires have devastated habitat for iconic animals that are only found in Australia, including koalas and rare birds, though the toll on wildlife won’t be fully known for some time.Bush fires are expected to continue burning through the weekend and in the weeks and months to come as Australia enters its dry season in a precariously hot and desiccated position. However, the fire weather forecast for the next few days features cooler weather, which could help weary firefighters hold flames back behind containment lines.Last year was the hottest and driest year on record in the country, and December turned out to be one of the top 2 hottest months ever recorded. December featured the country’s hottest day on record as well. No significant rain is expected in the hardest-hit areas of New South Wales and Victoria for months.While bush fires are a regular occurrence during the Australian dry season, a combination of long-term climate change and natural variability is making the situation far worse.Human-caused global warming is raising the odds of and severity of extreme-heat events and also adding to the severity of wildfires by speeding the drying of the landscape, among other influences. One of the most robust conclusions of climate studies has been that human-caused warming would increase the frequency and severity of heat waves and also boost the occurrence of days with extreme fire danger.Both trends are playing out in Australia right now, a country that has recently seen other severe climate impacts in the form of marine heat waves that devastated parts of the Great Barrier Reef.The southern part of Australia has warmed by 2.7 degrees since 1950, according to climate researcher Zeke Hausfather, climate and energy director at The Breakthrough Institute. This is consistent with the period of faster human-caused warming worldwide.The unusually warm and dry year in Australia is also due in part to a weather pattern that has set up across the Indian Ocean. It’s known as the Indian Ocean Dipole, or IOD, which is an air circulation pattern in the Indian Ocean. When the IOD is in its positive phase, the water is cooler than average off the coast of Sumatra, leading to reduced atmospheric lift there and reduced rainfall over Australia, and there are warmer-than-average waters off the coast of Africa.A positive IOD the past two years has meant drier-than-average conditions in much of Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology found that it’s unusual to have back-to-back years with a positive dipole, which helps influence precipitation patterns across South Asia and Oceania.This natural climate cycle is changing over time as ocean and air temperatures rise in response to increased amounts of greenhouse gases in the air because of human activities, namely the burning of fossil fuels for energy. This is expected to make back-to-back positive IOD events more common and make Australia even more prone to drought conditions accompanied by extreme heat.”While the IOD is a natural mode of variability, its behavior is changing in response to climate change. Research suggests that the frequency of positive IOD events, and particularly the occurrence of consecutive events will increase as global temperatures rise,” the bureau stated.The scale of the ongoing disaster in Australia is difficult to fathom even for those on the ground. At least 12 million acres have gone up in smoke so far in Victoria and New South Wales alone, which dwarfs the amount of land that burned in California’s worst fire season in 2018. It’s equivalent to the burning of the entire state of West Virginia.Smoke from the blazes has made it to South America, a journey of 9,000 miles, and some may stay aloft for months, having a small effect on the planet’s climate.On the ground, though, residents in affected areas feel helpless and scared, and increasingly weary.Rebecca Butterworth, a house painter and journalist in Albury, a city in southern New South Wales, says it’s been surreal to hear the small towns in the picturesque Murray-Darling Basin, some of which have populations under 100, mentioned on national newscasts.”The signal for ‘leave’ is a red rimmed triangle with a black interior, and a little traffic light guy at full hock within it. It’s just hanging everywhere,” she said in an email. #ศาสตร์เกษตรดินปุ๋ย

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Born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the “Olivia” (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.

Self-portrait at age 38. Oil on canvas. William Fehr Collection In 1855 Baines joined Augustus Gregory’s 1855–1857 Royal Geographical Society sponsored expedition across northern Australia as official artist and storekeeper. The expedition’s purpose was to explore the Victoria River district in the north-west and to evaluate the entire northern area of Australia in terms of its suitability for colonial settlement. His association with the North Australian Expedition was the highpoint of his career, and he was warmly commended for his contribution to it, to the extent that Mount Baines and the Baines River were named in his honour.

In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia.

From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman’s Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines’ Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other’s practice.

Baines made some of the drawings for the engravings illustrating Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1869 book The Malay Archipelago.

In 1870 Baines was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation. Thomas Baines died in Durban in 1875.

Baines is today best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa and Australia. Many of his pictures are held by the National Library of Australia, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Maritime Museum, Brenthurst Library and the Royal Geographical Society. There are also numerous paintings at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town.

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