Widespread rain has continued over the fire zones - this may be the end finally for the northern Australian bushfire season.

Before then though:

"Bushfires in New South Wales and Queensland have emitted a massive pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere since August that is equivalent to almost half of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
Analysis by Nasa shows the NSW fires have emitted about 195m tonnes of CO2 since 1 August, with Queensland’s fires adding a further 55m tonnes over the same period."

I'd wondered how that fit into Australia's emissions equation - you feel like it's these 'freak' events that could push us over the edge.

Meanwhile, Perth (south west Australia) is in the middle of a run of 4 consecutive 40C days