Environment
Melbourne's Wildfires Look Absolutely Hellish
The land just north of the city looks like a raging ocean of flames.
People waking up in southern Australia right now are in for a dismal newsbreak. Overnight, seven more homes were lost to a great wildfire outbreak that's crept into the metropolitan boundaries of Melbourne, darkening skies with smoke and suffusing the land with a hellish glow.
Bushfires have charred to oblivion a confirmed total of 21 houses and "several hundred thousand hectares of land," reports 9 News Melbourne. A great aggravator of this blaze, as well as Australia's unusually severe fire season, is a rash of warm and arid weather that's left vegetation as desiccated as matchsticks. According to 9 News: