Australia is experiencing fierce heat battle with temperatures in some areas up to 43 degrees C, strong winds and relative humidity at about 21%.

Both South Australia and Victoria state has a record first summer hot days in 2012.

In those days, temperatures up to 43 degrees Celsius in some parts of Southwest Victoria, in South Australia, the temperature has reached at 40 degrees C.

In Western Australia, the weather is very hot and has occurred many forest fires, the temperature forecast at 39 degrees C in Perth city.

Weather experts predict -Terry Ryan of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology of Australia assessed that heatwave this year will be more seriously than in South Australia, although the heat is common in summer in the country.

Summer is also the beginning of fire season in Australia. Authorities said although forests remain humid, grasslands in the northern have been warming. According to experts, high temperatures, strong winds and low humidity are the extremes weather haven't seen in years, can easily cause fires.

Both Victoria and South Australia are warned seriously about the risk of forest fires. The fire service in two states now been put on alert as temperatures remained high during the night. However, very low rainfall making the fire more difficult.

Victoria has more than 100 fires occurred on 2 / 1, in which many clusters occur in the western prairie. In the east, the fire crews to use helicopters to spray water to extinguish a forest fire in this area.

The insurance company in Australia has encouraged people of this country are ready to deal with the situation more extreme weather due to global climate warming.

In 2011, Australia and New Zealand accounted for more than 1 / 3 the cost of compensation for natural disasters worldwide, of which only the damage caused by floods in Queensland state of Australia and the earthquake in Christchurch city of New Zealand was about 22 billion AUD (over 22.8 billion USD). /.

According to VietnamPlus.