Sydney was today painted a dreary grey, despite recent blue skies. Experts are now warning we could experience the opposite extreme next summer, with a possible return of bushfires and drought. LizzyBryan1 9News MORE:
Sam Markham, a landscape photographer, took this image after a firestorm tore through his south coast property on New Year's Eve 2019.
"No two fire seasons are exactly the same, but with so much 'fuel' in store from vegetation growth, the next El Niño riding on warming from increasing greenhouse gases is likely to induce severe bushfires and intense heatwaves," he said.Between 2000 and 2018 there were 473 heatwave-related deaths reported, a 2022 analysis of Australian coronial records found.
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