Floods North and Heat South

While towns in the north are flooded such as Ingham and Innisfail.

Down south the heat is still lingering. Adelaide's heat is still not relenting. Melbourne and Sydney are expected to experience some of the same. These distorted tracks were the result of the heat.People stay cool the best way they can.
Now the threat is also, bushfires. Many home have been lost. Some of these fires have been started by louts who do not think of the consequences.
The latest new today Saturday 7th Februry 2009

Today was a day of wild weather extremes across Australia as floodwaters rose in northern Queensland while more than 100 thousand firefighters remained on standby in the three southeastern states.
More than 40 blazes are burning in Victoria and New South Wales as a heatwave pushed the mercury as high as 47 degrees accompanied by strong winds and South Australia faces its 13th straight day of searing heat.
For more on the Victorian fires click here.
Melbourne recorded its hottest day since records began 150 years ago, peaking at 46.4 degrees.
The town of Avalon, 50km south-west of Melbourne, also smashed its heat record, reaching 47.9 degrees.
There are fire bans across much of the nation's southeast with conditions said to be the worst since the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983, which killed 75 people and razed two and a half thousand houses.
A 160-hectare inferno's burning out of control about an hour east of Melbourne with flames up to 10 metres jumping control lines power lines supplying Melbourne under threat and evacuations underway in three nearby towns.
Meanwhile, flash floods have hit the north Queensland town of Innisfail after 350 millimetres of rain fell on the saturated state overnight swelling already flooded rivers.
Two thirds of Queensland's been declared a disaster area with more than a million square kilometres and three thousand homes flood-affected by two recent cyclones.
The sugar cane and cattle industries are being devastated by the floods with tens of thousands of stranded cows starving to death.

Latest News 10.30pm Sat 7th feb 2009

Fourteen people have been killed in the savage bushfires which set Victoria ablaze on Saturday.
Victoria police confirmed the deaths on Saturday night and said they fear the figure may reach into the 40s.
Deputy police commissioner Kieran Walshe said all the deaths were in a massive blaze northwest of Melbourne - six at Kinglake, four at nearby Wandong, three at Strathewen and one in Clonbinane.
Mr Walshe said he believed the Kinglake victims were all in the same car.
He believed arsonists were responsible for some of the nine major fires ripping across the state.