Thunderstorms that dumped flash floods on large swathes of Tasmania have done nothing to douse bushfires raging for weeks in the state's northwest.
The state's chief fire officer Gavin Freeman said the heavy downpours were a blessing and a curse, with lightning strikes triggering at least 14 new blazes.
Mr Freeman said there were 88 fires still burning across the state, with deluges of rain failing to penetrate fire-ravaged parts of the northwest coast.
"You'd think with all the rain we've had in many parts of the state that things would be a lot better for us, from a fire perspective, but unfortunately it's not," he told reporters in Hobart.
"There could still be some more starts from that lightning, too, that we haven't found yet."
More than 100mm of rain has fallen in some northeastern parts of Tasmania but fire authorities have reported only light falls in their areas of concern.
Mr Freeman said Friday's rainy conditions had hampered firefighting efforts.
"Today, because of the low cloud, low visibility that's hampered our operation significantly ... virtually nil use of aircraft today on our fires," he said.
"We haven't been able to do any water bombing or insertion of remote area firefighters, nor have we been able to do any reconnaissance, just because we haven't been able to get our aircraft into the air."
Several alerts remain in place for the Mersey Forest in central Tasmania, while access to Cradle Mountain remains closed as does the Overland Track.
Firefighters are now bracing for a probable high fire danger day on Tuesday, with warm conditions set to return to the island state.
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