NSW health authorities have issued an alert as smoke from prescribed bushfires and near-record late season warmth pushed pollution to "hazardous" levels in parts of Sydney.
Depending on how coming days play out - and the bureau is forecasting daytime temperatures to reach 23-25 degrees until Sunday - the city could set late-season records for the sequence of days this warm so late in May. Environmental groups have targeted the current standards for sulphur dioxide - much of it from coal-fired power plants - as too weak. They say existing standards are 11 times higher than the World Health Organisation recommends, and weaker than the US, the European Union and China.
p_hannam On the positive side, the rises and sets of the sun and moon have been amazing! photography
p_hannam I blame Big Asthma funding the NSWRFS
p_hannam It’s ridiculous. Six figure salaried NSW RFS execs in gold braid uniforms justifying their existence. They cannot go on polluting Sydney like this! Extra hospital admissions, even deaths hastened in ill people.
p_hannam stop the burn off
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