A cauldron of extreme heat developing in WA is heading straight for the east coast fire zone

A build up of intense heat that will see temperatures in WA soar into the mid 40s this weekend will be dragged across the country next week, right into parts of New South Wales and Queensland devastated by bushfires this week.Milder temperatures should provide some relief for NSW in the coming daysThe NSW and Queensland bushfires have already burnt through more than a million hectares of land, killing four people and destroying more than 300 homes.

Bureau of Meteorology spokesman Neil Bennett said milder temperatures were expected to provide some relief to parts of NSW where fires continue to burn over the next few days, but the bushfire threat was far from over with the heat expected to ramp up again. The areas in dark red on the map below show parts of WA will bake in temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius over the weekend, before the hot air mass bears down on the east coast by Tuesday."The problem that we have with the fires on the east coast is that there will be this break now … there are some cooler temperatures, but the heat from WA could push across over the course of the middle part of next week," Mr Bennett said.

While early forecasts suggest areas in eastern parts of New South Wales and south-east Queensland will nudge 40C by Tuesday, forecasters will keep a close eye on the winds to determine whether to issue fire weather warnings. This week a catastrophic weather warning was introduced across large parts of NSW — the first time such a high warning has been issued since it was introduced in 2009 following the Black Saturday Victorian bushfires.Mr Bennett said wind strength could prove the key as to how bad conditions would get on the eastern seaboard next week.

Shocking

Looking forward for a nice day at the beach !!

Quiet, Australians.

This --

“OH NO ITS CLIMATE CHANGE, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE”

“Cauldron” Weather map colour graded from black to red to convey idea Australia is a smouldering ember This isn’t news, it’s ideological indoctrination climatehoax theirabc

This Quiet Australian checked some history on climate & what happened if 1896 is very similar to extremes of Temp of today,in January 1896 it reached 53.8 in Goondabooka NSW, while Hobart' Mt Wellington was covered in snow, must have been all those SUV's 😉😉, history folks 👌.

Must be the green fault

TheirABC dialling up the ClimatePorn to 11.

Whatever you do, don't mention climate or coal. Be a good quiet Aussie and swelter in silence.

Armegeddon cataclysmic catastrophic terror level?!

aaaaaaaawwwww fk the mid forties, what am i going to do about my cat can cats even survive without air conditioning in that kind of heat? fks sake.

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