It is the first such declaration for Sydney, Australia’s most populous city after Melbourne, since late November 2020.
Sydney has experienced its first total fire ban in almost three years and several schools along the New South Wales state coast to the south have been closed because of a heightened wildfire danger caused by unusually hot and dry conditions.
A total fire ban has been declared for the Greater Sydney area and the coastal communities to the south.A woman carries her surfboard at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Tuesday “We are in this run of very, very warm weather which hasn’t been seen in many, many years,” the bureau’s senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said.
Authorities declared a “catastrophic” fire danger along the south coast of New South Wales, the highest level of danger in a five-tier rating system.
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