Reference :- We are waiting for the meteorologist at Sky News , Rowan Dean , to laugh at the fires in California .

 Reference :-    California is ablaze  , but where is the detailed assessment by Rowan Dean ? 

Oh dear Rowan , don't tell me you are letting fellow journalist Chris Kenny cover the California fires for you .   He did a fair job of explaining that it was just a normal fire season , but he does lack your flair . 

It seems that 200,000 folk near San Francisco have been advised to evacuate lest they face incineration . 

But Rowan , San Francisco suffered a catastrophic conflagration in 1851  , so their experience with uncontrollable infernos  goes back at least as far as The Great Fire , as it is called.   Although  The Great Fire is thought to be the result of arson , not lightning strikes like the current California fires . I reckon the arsonists must have immigrated to Australia when the gold rush fever headed our way .  That would explain why our fires are now the result of arson and not lightning like the old days . 

There is a lot of material for you there Rowan .

For now , I  guess you might be waiting for climate change alarmists to declare the current fires " unprecedented " before running a segment .  And I guess the fires will be blazing for weeks yet , so you have plenty of time to prepare a suitably hilarious appraisal of events that you can giggle your way through .  Andy Bolt should join you , after a whisky or two naturally . 

Your comrade , Ken