Crazy Weather Footage

By Shae and Macey

BushfiresFire is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources. Wildfires often begin unnoticed, but they spread quickly igniting brush, trees and homes.

Australian Black Saturday 2009

Queensland on a Tuesday, as temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius across much of the state

Tasmania

A large bushfire is out of control in Tasmania and will impact the township of Richmond, fire authorities warn.

Lighting

Lightning is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm.

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Pretoria

Brisbane

Tornadoes/cyclones/hurricanes Hurricanes are large tropical storms with heavy

winds. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air

extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. Cyclones are winds rotating inward to an area of

low atmospheric pressure

23rd January 2013

in Queensland’s south-east, or the Melburnians who were affected by tornadoes on Christmas Day of 2011.

New York City

U.S