A global air quality index ranks Canberra's air worse than New Delhi, India or Lahore, Pakistan - due to the South Coast bushfire smoke. 9News
Canberra's air quality is the worst out of any major city in the world due to smoke from bushfires along the NSW South Coast.But conditions had been worse in the NSW coastal town of Bateman's Bay, which has been besieged by fires in recent days, rating nearly twice as bad as Canberra earlier yesterday.
Parliament House is seen through thick smoke haze in Canberra on New Year's Day in 2020. The 2pm air quality index reading at Monash was 4650 - more than 23 times the hazardous level of 200.Air quality in Canberra is more than 10 times hazardous levels according to local health authorities, having peaked at more than 20 times hazardous levels yesterday.
The smoke is expected to linger over the capital in the coming days, with the Bureau of Meteorology saying high temperatures were trapping the smog there. There are out of control fires burning near Kosciuszko National Park to Canberra's west, and the fires along the coast to the east. Bureau forecaster Abrar Shabren said this meant whatever the wind change, smoke would still be blown across the territory.
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