Lightning cause of most bushfires
NZPA-AAP Melbourne Of 151 bushfires in Victoria over the last week, 122 were caused by lightning strikes and destroyed 200,000 hectares of farm or bushland, according to the Forestry Commission. Dr John Garratt, of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s atmospheric division, said yesterday that any significant control of the weather “was just not
on.” Lightning strikes were a natural phenomena and could not be controlled. “We have a big enough problem trying to seed clouds to produce rain,” he said. “The concept of having millions of lightning conductors is not even worth considering as it is too impractical,” Dr Garratt said. North-east Victoria had many lightning strikes because the area was moun-
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