Sorry I should have worded the post warning better and have amended it accordingly, sorry to hear you haven't been well FCoD hope you feel better soon and Jules you know what I'm going to say, pretty as always

Thank you, hopefully it will go away as quickly as it came on, but I'm thinking that won't be the case.

Stay safe everyone. Sending all the love, hope, strength, prayers and hugs I have.

Thank you big hugs to you

As always, where ever you are, stay safe!

News and Weather for February 5th

• Daniel Andrews' stern warning to land owners after 'terrible' koala logging deaths
• Scott Morrison moves to set up royal commission into 'Black Summer' bushfires
• Near-death experience of firefighters stranded in inferno investigated
• Indigenous fire practitioner: ‘Let us drive for a change’
• Hundreds still without homes as Bateman's Bay begins bushfire clean-up
• January 2020 was the hottest month on record globally
• Protesters call for greater action on climate change outside Parliament House
• Canberra's leadership tussles distract from bushfire tributes
• Family's Hobart holiday goes from 40C to snow in one weekend
• Weather Hazards in Australia
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• Bureau of Meteorology Weather Across Australia

Wow! We regularly deal with weather whiplash, but 40 degrees in a couple of days? That's extreme. Ours are usually in the range of 20 degrees over a few days.

Those poor sad koalas...as if there hasn't been enough loss of wildlife.

My heart breaks for all the loss.

Sending love and hugs and prayers. Be safe everyone.

Any who, as always, where ever you are, stay safe!

News and Weather for February 7th

• NSW firefighters 'over the moon' as heavy rain extinguishes fires
• Bushfire-ravaged Selwyn Snow Resort won't open for 2020 season
• Australian beekeepers 'devastated' by bushfires
• American firefighters who died fighting Australian fires begin final journey home
• Endangered corroborree frogs survive bushfires
• Prime Minister concerned about flow of bushfire donations
• Victorian Golden Tag fish competition casts off cash bounty worth up to $10,000
• A PARODY HAWAIIAN SHIRT FEATURING SCOTT MORRISON’S FACE
• Weather Hazards in Australia
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• Bureau of Meteorology Weather Across Australia

that shirt is the only form of that sneering muppet's face i can stand looking at XD

Sneering Muppet 😂

Same here

I feel that these posts will be becoming fewer and fewer as less news becomes available to supply to you, which, in the long run is a good thing. I want to thank each and every one of you for joining, your donations and your support, and to those of you that helped spread the information via your social media, to all of you thank you. On a terrible and at times heartbreaking topic it has still been a pleasure to put these posts together for you all and I appreciate each and every one of you for taking the time to come by and keep updated, you are all totally awesome and wonderful human beings!

As always, where ever you are, stay safe!

News and Weather for February 9th

• NSW fires: Currowan fire officially 'out' after 74 days burning
• NSW weather: Heavy rain 'breaking back' of fires amid fears of flooding from weekend downpours
• Rain buckets down across NSW as state faces biggest downpour since late 1990s
• Heavy wind, rain as Cyclone Damien lashes WA's Pilbara region
• Pressure mounts on NSW Government to fund better masks for RFS volunteers
• 60 Minutes: US climatologist flags 'unimaginable climate crisis' after Australia's 'summer of fire'
• Record-high temperature of 18.3C recorded in Antarctica
• Weather Hazards in Australia
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• Bureau of Meteorology Weather Across Australia

That is quite a photo of the storm clouds. Along with the horrible pics of the fires and the damage brought by them, the pics of the flooding are also heart breaking. May there soon be a time when no updates are needed.

Sending love, hope, hugs and prayers. Stay safe everyone.

Thank you ❤

Thanks for putting all this together for us.

The rain here in Sydney is intense - I'm hoping it does a lot of good putting out fires and rejuvenating plants (one of our trees we thought dead has just sprouted new leaves in the last few days!) with as little flooding and damage as possible, but we'll see.

I'm loving the rainy day.

I'm listening to a gentle pitter-patter of raindrops outside my window as I read this update. We had a couple of tiny fires spring up nearby on Friday/Saturday (possibly due to lightning strikes as we had storms across this way end of last week but with no rain to accompany until now) so it's great to get a little more water on the ground from mother nature. Hopefully the emphasis is on 'little', we need good soaking rain, not too much of the stuff that gets dumped down in one go.

Thanks for organising all the awesome updates , you've done a great job ❤

This started life as Australia Burns (was changed due to upsetting someone) and I'm thinking I may need to change it again to Australia Drowns!

The wet weather that has now lashed the Eastern states is unbelievable when you consider the ravaging fires that only days ago were chewing through the country, but then again the whole state of the weather/nature around the world has gotten to such a tipping point that it's hard to believe that it is still being seen as nothing to do with climate change. Locust plagues are sweeping across East Africa and South Asia, volcanoes are erupting and killing people in places that you wouldn't fear such a thing happening as it did in New Zealand, floods in Brazil and Indonesia just to name 2 places, virus's spreading world wide as with the Coronavirus, world wide drought, unprecedented weather highs world wide, not to mention that 18C record for the Antarctic, earthquakes, tsunami's, wildfires the world over! Bushfires never before seen in the recorded history of Australia and now flooding to add insult to injury for an already suffering land and communities. What makes this worse is that for the first time since we started electing officials we have more unstable people in power than ever before and while I joked years ago about watching a train wreck unfold if certain people got elected I quickly realised, I am on that train! I don't know about you but I think we need something (even though it's sadly right) to give us a chuckle so I've linked these two beauties in for you guys, the first is funny as (still) and while it's not as funny the creators have made an up to date one to reflect our world today, I hope you enjoy!

News and Weather for February 11th

• 'How much can a community bear?': This NSW town survived bushfires, only to face floods
• Kangaroo spotted swimming in flooded NSW town devastated by fires just weeks ago
• NSW farmers hope record rainfall finally signals the end of the drought
• 'Extraordinary' drenching as Sydney weathers highest multi-day rainfall since 1990
• Gospers Mountain 'mega' bush fire extinguished by NSW deluge
• How rain downpours affected Australia's eastern states after drought, heatwaves and fires
• Weather Hazards in Australia
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• Bureau of Meteorology Weather Across Australia

Thank you again for this. Sending tons of love and hugs. Stay safe everyone.

While this is a satire site, it's a bit too realistic, and may give a laugh.

Celebration as natural disaster averted by slightly less horrific natural disaster

lol those clips were the best XD

Well, we're still standing here where I am on the east coast. Though, on Monday our harbour was throwing an epic tantrum...it was amazing. The jetty/boat ramp got lose and was actually bobbing in the harbour and was getting slammed against the wall! The pathway was also flooded at one point, and the beach was a mess! But more rain is coming...well, we got what we wanted I suppose...