Multiple firestorms during 2019-20 blazes

By Megan Neil
Updated June 16 2020 - 6:16pm, first published 6:11pm
Firestorms that create their own thunder and lightning markedly increased during summer's bushfires.
Firestorms that create their own thunder and lightning markedly increased during summer's bushfires.

Australia experienced almost as many firestorms - bushfires so intense they create their own weather systems - during the 'Black Summer' season as in the previous three decades.

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