SYDNEY: Parts of Australia's east, including Sydney, are bracing for their hottest day in more than two years on Monday (Mar 6) with temperatures forecast to hit around 40 degrees Celsius, raising the risk of dangerous bushfires. Total fire bans are now in place for multiple regions across most of New Sout
SYDNEY: Parts of Australia's east, including Sydney, are bracing for their hottest day in more than two years on Monday with temperatures forecast to hit around 40 degrees Celsius, raising the risk of dangerous bushfires.
Total fire bans are now in place for multiple regions across most of New South Wales, the home state of one-third of Australians, with authorities warning of high to extreme danger. More than 30 fires are already burning across the state, four of which are yet to be contained, while 33 public schools, mostly in inland regions, have been closed ahead of the severe heat, officials said.
"If a fire does start, it's going to be burning under those difficult conditions ... harder for our firefighters to get around them, and fire can spread very quickly, particularly in grassland," Angela Burford, operational officer at the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
But the weather bureau last week said its climate models suggest that La Nina was"likely near its end", and neutral conditions, which is neither La Nina or its opposite El Nino, were likely to prevail through the southern hemisphere autumn.
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