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Being Green - 06 January 2017

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"The Fire Season is upon us and it’s early in the cycle. Yesterday a sample from the Vital Fire website, which offers a forestry-based Fire Index information service, said that, for instance, in the Breede River region the wind was SSW, 5kmh, the temperature at 10 am 17 degrees and the forecast Fire Danger Index for the day at 32, which is moderate but on the high end of moderate. For R285 you can subscribe to six months of daily updates for your area in the Fire Season, actually 2 updates per day via SMS, giving the Actual, or current Index, and the forecast Index for 2pm.“
6 Jan 2017 English South Africa Health & Fitness

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