Australia Fires Update Rain

Storm flooding misery follow bushfires in Australia.

Australia fires update rain. Regions along the New South Wales coast have received downpour that helped some parched areas and some active bushfires. Canberra airport closed reports of air tanker crash in NSW bushfires latest updates. However around 25 are yet to be contained.

A wide band of rain sweeping New South Wales NSW. The Yarra River in Melbourne turns brown as dust in the rain pours in from the north. An elderly NSW man became the latest victim of Australias horror bushfire season on Sunday bringing the national death toll to 28.

Victorians have been given some relief as more bushfires have been brought under control and rain hit South Australia where 32 homes were destroyed. Monday 6 January 2020 852 AM AEDT. A deluge is now falling on Australias.

The rains are not expected to end the drought or extinguish all the fires. Australia is expected to get heavy rain this week but officials say it wont be enough to tamp down the raging wildfires that have gripped the country for months. Heavy rains in the state of New South Wales this week contained the last of a series of deadly wildfires some of them lasting for months to plague Australia.

Heavy rains drench some Australia bush fire zones helping firefighters contain the raging blazes. The heavy rains are forecasted. That particular fire burned 499621 hectares of land.

Multiple regions across Australia reported Thursday they had received more than a months rainfall in just 24 hours according to 9 News Australia. Torrential rain across the east coast of Australia has extinguished a third of the fires in the region - and could put more out officials say. Significant rain is forecast to fall across multiple Australian states bringing much needed respite after a week of catastrophic bushfire weather conditions.