Large parts of Victoria and NSW were evacuated today creating holiday traffic chaos. The danger zone now is far eastern Vic and south eastern NSW.

Tomorrow's forecast for that area is another 40C day plus 35kph northerlies then a gusty cool change. Despite the media and political hysteria, that's bad conditions, but not as bad as it was a couple of days ago. There will likely be more homes lost - certainly 1000's of hectares of forest burned - hopefully no more lives.

As for Dan's question about 'When will the climate change deniers admit they were wrong?' - i can answer that easily: Never

Just listening to talkback radio on the way back through the smoke haze from fishing with my brother today the airwaves were peppered with idiots saying the fires were all the fault of the greenies. The thing about being an idiot is that you will never admit you were wrong and you have zero interest in the truth.