What actually happened:   Australia is known to have bushfires every year around October however, the fires that took place in 2019 were unmatched in destruction. The reason the fires were so bad that year in particular is because 2019 also had the driest spring on record for the country (Britton et al.) Because of the dryness, the fires were able to spread at a pace that was hard to keep up with and hard to predict. The fires continued to escalate through December when smoke began to generate storms. The lightning from these storms only caused more fires to ignite. In December, the United States sent aid to Australia while…