Heatwave to hit south-east of the country over the coming days

ABC NEWS (Australia)

South-east Australia is set to swelter over the coming days, as it's hit by one of the first big heatwaves of summer.  High fire danger still persists in fire affected areas in Western Australia. Senior Meteorologist Miriam Bradbury says dangerous conditions persist.

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00:00So today we are looking at high fire dangers across much of the west and southwest of the

00:07country and that includes much of those fire affected areas of Western Australia so no

00:12extreme fire dangers for that part of the country today however we're still looking at very dry

00:16conditions temperatures in the high 20s at least if not the low to mid 30s obviously further north

00:23further inland it gets hotter but the winds are still fresh at times and these dry fresh winds

00:28are likely to create very dangerous conditions even though the fire danger ratings are sitting

00:33at high today Miriam looking to the heat that's moving to the east of the country we'll go first

00:38to the fire danger we've got seven districts under extreme fire danger ratings in South

00:43Australia similar warnings for parts of Victoria as well that's exactly right temperatures are

00:49peaking across the southeastern states today in the mid to high 30s at least if not the low 40s

00:54and also very dry conditions in those parts driving those fire dangers high so extreme fire

00:59dangers are forecast for the York Peninsula Air Peninsula southeast of South Australia today

01:04as well as the Mount Lofty Ranges so very dangerous conditions and very hot conditions as well for

01:10Victoria we're seeing extreme fire dangers today for the Wimmera and of course total fire bans are in

01:15place for these areas so those dangerous conditions are pushing east with the hottest day today

01:20yeah what can you tell us more about that heat around the rest of the country

01:26yeah so we're seeing the heat pushing up the east coast as well we've got low to severe intensity

01:31heat waves starting to build across the southeast now we're going to see that gradually easing over

01:35the weekend for South Australia Victoria Tasmania temperatures start to calm down a little bit but

01:40for the east coast the heat really remains a focus for the weather the temperatures remain high and

01:45we see those severe intensity heat wave conditions continuing for much of eastern New South Wales

01:50pushing into southeast Queensland through the weekend and into early next week so unfortunately

01:55little relief there with those very hot conditions continuing even while the southeast can expect a

02:01little bit of relief over the weekend Miriam a lot of people want to know but what can you tell us

02:05about the Christmas forecast

02:09well look the Bureau's official Christmas forecast will come out this afternoon but taking a general look

02:15at conditions we're likely to see a high pressure system in the south what that means fairly cool

02:20settled weather is most likely at this point in time for Tasmania Victoria milder for Adelaide for

02:26South Australia and for Sydney it's looking wet sorry it's looking hot on the west coast and likely

02:33showers and storms continuing in the north so that's the brief but we'll give you all the details later

02:37today Miriam Bradbury at the Bureau of Meteorology thank you

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