hello there. friday is set to be another day of split weather fortunes, with largely dry and often sunny weather across northern and western areas. further south and east, well, the chance once again of some thunderstorms or at least some torrential downpours of rain. feeding up from the near continent, you can see this weather system herejust fringing into south eastern areas, whereas this ridge of high pressure is going to be keeping things mainly dry settled across a part of scotland, northern ireland, north west england, wales, and the far south west, after a fairly cool, fresh start. there will be some spells of sunshine and just the odd shower. but down toward the south east, you can see more in the way of cloud and some sporadic outbreaks of rain. now, don t take the detail on this chart too literally, it s often hard to pin down the detail in these thundery scenarios, but there will be some heavy bursts of rain, perhaps as far as the west country, the west midlands, up to parts
life will never be the same. the areas of grey forest visible in the distance are dead. a crown fire under a 90km wind burnt through and there has been widespread mortality. eucalypts don t have dormant seeds so because of the sheer scale, it is highly unlikely eucalypts will be regenerating or germinating where whole mountainsides are dead below us, so that is effectively ecosystem collapse. kangaroo island s story since the fires is one of extraordinary resilience and recovery. separated from the mainland 10,000 years ago, it liesjust off the coast of south australia and is the country s third largest island.