Australia Fires Update Rain

The Yarra River in Melbourne turns brown as dust in the rain pours in from the north.

Australia fires update rain. Heavier falls were between Taree and Murwillumbah. The heavy rains are forecasted. Australia fires media caption Australias capital Canberra is engulfed in smoke Rain has fallen in fire-ravaged parts of Australia and temperatures have dropped - but officials have warned that.

Ms Neville said 220 new blazes had started in. Victorians have been given some relief as more bushfires have been brought under control and rain hit South Australia where 32 homes were destroyed. Relief is here for a number of firefighters.

Thunderstorms and torrential rain have wreaked havoc in the fire-devastated states of New South Wales Queensland and Victoria. Storm flooding misery follow bushfires in Australia. NASA satellite data continues to provide a look at the smoke and aerosols generated by the massive fires in Australia.

The rains are not expected to end the drought or extinguish all the fires. Regions along the New South Wales coast have received downpour that helped some parched areas and some active bushfires. The cool weather that has brought relief to Victoria will continue on Monday with showers expected to give firefighters some respite before the heat returns later in the.

A deluge is now falling on Australias. However around 25 are yet to be contained. A wide band of rain sweeping New South Wales NSW.

New South Wales fire services nonetheless welcomed the rain which they said would help to control the 75 fires burning in the state. An elderly NSW man became the latest victim of Australias horror bushfire season on Sunday bringing the national death toll to 28. That particular fire burned 499621 hectares of land.