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It's raining in Australia. People are ecstatic in the rain. The mountain fire has been alleviated

Australia finally ushered in large-scale rainfall. After the heavy rain in Melbourne, it also rained in Sydney. The long-standing drought has been alleviated, and local people began to celebrate. Children are having fun in the rain, and adults also choose not to travel with umbrellas. New South Wales and Victoria, where wildfires are the most serious, have been alleviated to varying degrees.

According to chinanews.com comprehensive report, it began to rain in eastern Australia on the 16th. The local meteorological department expects more rainfall in the next few days, giving Australia a chance to breathe after months of mountain fires. On the other hand, Australian firefighters successfully rescued 'Wollemi pines' in the fire. This kind of pine that has survived since prehistoric times is called' Dinosaur tree ', and there are only less than 200 in the world.

[Australia welcomes the rainy weather and will maintain it until this weekend]

It is reported that new South Wales, which was seriously damaged by mountain fires, began to rain on the morning of the 16th. Melbourne, Victoria, also had thunderstorms late on the 15th, improving the local air quality shrouded in mountain fire haze.

The Australian meteorological department predicts that from now on until the end of this week, more rainfall will usher in eastern Australia. If so, it will be the longest rainy weather in Australia since the mountain fire began in September 2019.

However, some officials warned that short and strong thunderstorms could cause floods, and lightning could ignite new fire points.

Jack, senior meteorologist at the Australian meteorological service? Phillips said: "we expect the weather to change at least in the next four or five days." Rainfall in some areas may be useful, while in others it may be only a millimeter or two. "

In addition, the weather forecast shows that after this round of rainfall, Australia will return to high-temperature and dry weather.

On January 12 local time, next to a residential house near Cooma, Australia, a storage basin was filled with rain stained brown by ash. It is reported that the rain in the basin also emits a strong smell of smoke.

[firefighters worked hard to rescue Aogu pine from mountain fire]

Affected by the fire, the forest land of blue mountain in Australia was seriously damaged. Fortunately, through the efforts of firefighters, the 'living fossils' of the plant world and the wild valmaison forest survived.

It is reported that valmaisson has a history of more than 200 million years (appearing as early as before the age of dinosaurs). At first, the outside world thought that these pines had been extinct. Until 1994, relevant units found it in the national park near the blue mountain in the northwest of Sydney. There are about 200 trees preserved here.

On January 7 local time, fallen trees blocked the road of the fire near Eden, a coastal town in Australia.

Although Valmai pine has been propagated and distributed to botanical gardens around the world, the Valmai Canyon is the only wild Valmai pine forest in the world.

In order to protect these precious trees from pollution, the location of the pine forest has always been kept secret, but the forest land has been seriously damaged due to mountain fires.

Australian officials pointed out that as the fire approached the area at the end of 2019, firefighters used fire-fighting aircraft to sprinkle flame retardants around the pine forest to form a protective circle. Special firefighters also established an irrigation system in the canyon to provide water for the pine forest.

New South Wales environment minister Matt Kean called the operation an "unprecedented environmental protection task". Keane said on the 15th that although some trees were charred by the fire, the pine forest as a whole survived the fire.

Mountain fires are common in Australia in summer, but this year's wild fire season comes very early. Reuters reported that the fire has killed 29 people, destroyed more than 2500 houses and killed about 1 billion animals.