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Fire season no longer predictable
6 Dec 2004
The NSW Rural Fire Service said that fire seasons were changing, and that brief but heavy rain across NSW in October and November will not save the state from a brief but intensive fire season. The service said the chief danger period for big bushfires in NSW was likely to be January and February. Fire service commission Phil Koperberg said there was no longer a traditional pattern to the fire season. "We used to talk about the fire season starting on October 1 and fighting our first fire on October 2. What we see now is record high temperatures in September and record low temperatures in November. Now there is no pattern. Once upon a time fire seasons were October and November. Twenty years ago November was the fire month and things would slow down by Christmas as the humid air came through. Now it's the other way around. If you take the drought out of the equation, where we were getting grass fires in July, then fire seasons begin to impact later."
Sydney Morning Herald, 06/12/04
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