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Cold front made Ash Wednesday bushfires worse and changed focus of research around them

Thursday marked the 40th anniversary of the Ash Wednesday bushfires.

There was one surprising reason the bushfires of Ash Wednesday, 1983, were the worst in more than four decades.

It was a cold front, not the extreme heat or 10-month drought, that made the fires 40 years ago so bad.

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