The "catastrophic" hot weather caused a 10km stretch of the Hume Highway, near the Victoria state capital Melbourne, to become soft and sticky, causing havoc for motorists trying to enter the city.
Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania have now declared a total fire ban after blazes on the outskirts of Melbourne raged out of control, destroying buildings and threatening lives.
It took a team of 300 firefighters, 50 trucks and three helicopters to tackle one fire in Victoria's Carrum Downs on Saturday, which threatened dozens of homes.
Comment: The climate is certainly changing, it's getting colder and weather events are becoming much more intense, but it has nothing to do with the global warming lie and this is becoming clear for all to see, even Al Gore has had to change his tune: Al Gore's Global Warming: 'Bitter cold' is 'exactly what we should expect from the' err 'climate crisis'
The planet experiences periods of cyclical cooling and other more dramatic changes driven by much more massive influences than cow farts and old cars, see: