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Sydney was blanketed under thick wood smoke for a fourth consecutive day on Thursday due to hazard reduction burns in preparation for the wildfire season. Australia’s most populous city after ...
A massive column of smoke loomed over Sydney, Australia, as firefighters began hazard reduction burns in national parks to the south of the city, months after record bushfires ravaged the state ...
A 60 km (37.2 miles) firefront is devastating tinder-dry areas northwest of Sydney, Australia's largest city, and sending hazardous smoke across the east and over the Pacific, even causing haze ...
5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...
The smoke affected glaciers in the country, giving a brown tint to the snow. [293] On 5 January 2020, more smoke wafted over the North Island, turning the sky in Auckland orange. [294] By 7 January 2020, the smoke was carried approximately 11,000 kilometres (6,800 mi) across the South Pacific Ocean to Chile, Argentina, [33] [34] Brazil, and ...
1979 Sydney bushfires New South Wales 5 28 0 [30] 3 November 1980 1980 Waterfall bushfire New South Wales 1,000,000 2,500,000 5 [e] 14 0 [31] 9 January 1983
Thick bushfire smoke created hazardous air quality in communities along coastal New South Wales on Tuesday, December 10, the Bureau of Meteorology said.In Sydney, the air quality index was above ...
Fires and smoke plumes around the Sydney region of New South Wales, 19 October 2013 On 28 September, a fire ignited on Barrenjoey headland, destroying 60 percent of the scrub and forest on the headland and damaging the roof of the cottage attached to historic Barrenjoey Head Lighthouse and a second building in the lighthouse complex.