{"id":835,"date":"2012-09-21T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/projects\/npp\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:59:35","slug":"the-outback-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/npp-blog\/2012\/09\/21\/the-outback-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Outback on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m not talking about a Subaru. I’m talking about the vast expanse of sparsely-populated Australia. We’ve already seen fires in the United States<\/a>, Russia<\/a> and the Canary Islands<\/a>. Well, they have been happening down under, too. (Is there any part of this planet not currently experiencing a drought?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the risk of getting fire fatigue (“Another post about fires?” *yawn*), we’re going to look at these fires for two reasons. First, it gives me a chance to show off the “fire tornado” video clip that has been making the rounds on the Internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n