Australia's deadly relationship with heat

                                        As an achy to go home young person in Britain in the mid 1900s, the author Dorothea Mackellar longed for the "barbarous blue sky" of Australia.

"I cherish a sunburnt nation," she pronounced in her immortal sonnet My Country, and over a century after those well known words were created, parts of Australia have persevered through another savage summer of warmth. Sydney has had its most smoking December and January evenings on record and there have been new year heatwaves in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.

The blasts of burning conditions are not just awkward, they can be a noiseless executioner. Specialists are stressed that numerous Australians are thinking little of the perils postured by the warmth, the country's deadliest characteristic danger.

Deadlier than flames

In 2009, 173 individuals kicked the bucket operating at a profit Saturday bushfires in the condition of Victoria, a standout amongst the most fire-inclined areas on the planet. In any case, more than twice the same number of casualties lost their lives in a heatwave that went before the flames.

"What we are seeing progressively is climate that truly pushes us as far as possible," Dr Tessa Kennedy from the Australian Medical Association of New South Wales told the BBC. "Many individuals don't have a clue about that heatwaves are entirely hurtful to human wellbeing than bushfires and surges."