There are lots of bush fires around the country at the moment and summer has hardly begun, today melbourne is covered in smoke from fires up in the mountains east of us. Visibility is down to maybe 500m when it’s at it’s worst and I can feel the smell as soon as I woke up this morning. So far not many houses has dissapeared but aroung 750 000 Hectares (or coming up towards 1.5 million soccer fields) have been burnt down and still afet two weeks the fires continue. They stardet as a lot of individual fires after a thunder storm, (here they have “dry thunder storms” = no rain) but have merged into a few massive fire fronts, see pictures