NSW – Extreme Fire Danger

 

The Country Fire Authority has defended its deployment of fire crews during the Victorian bushfires. (User submitted: Alex Ip)

New South Wales firefighters are again on high alert preparing for even hotter and dryer conditions today.

Extreme Fire Danger is forecast for the Greater Hunter and Greater Sydney regions and complete fire bans in the eastern half of the state.

Authorties are keeping an eye on existing fires in the Hawkesbury, Lithgow, Eurobodalla, Bega and Narrabri areas.

Total fire bans have been in place since midnight for the Greater Hunter, Greater Sydney, Illawarra/Shoalhaven, Far South Coast, Central Ranges, Southern Ranges, Monaro Alpine Northern Slopes, Northwestern, Upper Central West Plains and Lower Central West Plains areas.

Posted on 28 November '09 by Steve, under Uncategorized. No Comments.

Australian Lighting Storms

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AUSTRALIA: Coastal NSW looks set to get a dose of the record-breaking hot temperatures seen throughout the state’s inland, as lightning storms and winds spark numerous bushfires.

Temperatures at some centres in western NSW continued to climb late on Friday afternoon, while a lightning storm passed over the Blue Mountains starting an unknown number of new fires.

Those storms also knocked out power supply to homes and businesses.

About  9000 addresses on Sydney’s northern beaches and some on the Central Coast were without power because of the storms, EnergyAustralia said in a statement.

Posted on 22 November '09 by Steve, under Uncategorized. No Comments.