Australia Fires a scene from a horror movie. A British teacher living in Melbourne - 30 miles from Australia's worst ever bush fires - did not need local news reports to know something was wrong.
James King said the sky went a dirty crimson "like something from a horror movie", as the sun was blotted out by fires that have killed almost 100.
Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the world, his mother Jenny King was having her own taste of extreme weather.
The 60-year-old retired teacher was snowed in at her home in Devon.
Mr King, 34, who lived in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, before emigrating seven years ago, said: "I knew something was not right. The sky went crimson with ash and I could smell all the smoke in the atmosphere.
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