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heatwave weekend 10-Jan-2010 At 10:49:38 PM lacto

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I think you will find that tomorrow is an abnormal hot summer day . Humidity levels , fuel load and wind are all important indicators. Last year about 10 days after black Saturday all trhe indicators were worse than the saturday and the priority warning was put out and the only areas that really evacuated were there were already fires burning in the Yarra valley , fortunately no large fires got going. Here it was 45 to 46 degrees with 30 to 40 km /h wind and if a fire had have started nothing would have stopped it . (only good thing was grass was almost all gone . Wimmera has had good crops , stubble everywhere and flames will be 10 to 15 times the height of the fuel , NOT the spot to be caught in a car . Yes the government is over reacting unless there is a fire, then they will be hung drawn and quartered for not warning people . My recollection of last year was severe fire danger predicted on friday before . These days with low irrigation our area is prone to district fire as not enough green pasture to stop such a fire . Be aware of the danger how prepared are you if you are caught in a car in a fire .