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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - The Bureau of Meteorology had an 'extreme heat-wave warning' in place today for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia's largest state. — Reuters pic
SYDNEY, Jan 21 — Parts of Western Australia today were set to swelter through an “extreme” heatwave, raising the risk of bushfires in the vast state, the nation’s weather forecaster said.
The Bureau of Meteorology today had an “extreme heatwave warning” in place for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia’s largest state, warning temperatures there could hit high forties degrees Celsius on the weekend.
In the Pilbara mining town of Paraburdoo, about 1,500 km north of state capital Perth, a maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius was forecast today, more than six degrees above the average January maximum, according to forecaster data. It was 35.5 C there at 7:30 a.m.
The hot weather lifts the risk of bushfires in an already high-risk fire season amid an El Nino weather event, which is typically associated with extreme events such as wildfires, cyclones and droughts.
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“Very hot and dry conditions combined with fresh southerly winds and a fresh to strong west to southwesterly sea breeze will lead to elevated fire dangers today,” the weather forecaster said on its website, regarding part of the Pilbara.
The warning comes after hundreds of firefighters earlier this month battled an out-of-control bushfire near Perth amid soaring temperatures, prompting evacuations.
Australia’s last two fire seasons have been subdued compared with the 2019-2020 “Black Summer” of bushfires that destroyed an area the size of Turkey, killed 33 people, 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates. — Reuters
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