Sydney facing day of oppressive heat, smoke and fire danger
Greater Sydney is bracing for a dangerous day of heat and fires, with temperatures set to climb as high as 45 degrees Celsius in the west and firefighters on alert for"the entire perimeter of Sydney".NSW Health warns people to be cautious of heat stressGusty winds from the north-west have blown a heatwave that is gripping central Australia to the east coast.The Bureau of Meteorology 's Neil Bennett said much of the country had been affected by a"dome" of hot air.
"There is a significant burst of heat for much of the Greater Sydney [and] metropolitan [area], grading from the coast to the Western Plains, so we would be looking at temperatures of 40C for the CBD," he said."Once you get to the foothills out towards Penrith you're looking at temperatures of 45C." Areas in regional NSW are also set to swelter, with Gloucester on the mid-north coast tipped to reach 41C, Maitland in the upper Hunter 43C and Springwood in the Central Tablelands 42C.
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