could be b uilding up to another ash wednesday. What sort of tools do you have to spot them, something like ours below or just Blinky Bill and with the mark one eyeball and binoculars.
http://www.firenorth.org.au/nafi/app/init.jsp
In the north interested observers have been closely watching the fires in the NT, poised to the north west of the big cattle production hub the Barkly tableland, (sort of centre screen on the NT north map.
This is a magnificient tool and uses several satellites to update info quite regularly.
Novemebr has been hot - hot with mostly strong easterlies - yesterday from midday for four hours they were 15 knots gusting 25. OAT 39 degrees, uncomfortable for mustering let me tell you.
This web site comes from a combined research centre on tropical savannahs, located in Darwin.
The R & D dollar providing excellent outcomes!
Sats sensors trigger temp is variances over 55 degrees C and can now handle more than 500,000 hot spots simultaneously.
I only know that because it crashed one day two years ago when hot spots far exceeded that number. Then they tweaked the temp down , that was an absolute root we were finding fires amongst the smoke that we didn't see on the website days after they were started, they finally expanded the system.
You can measure the areas by the use of some of the tools, e.g. one fire started from Newcastle waters which went west now covers well in excess of now 11,000 sq K.