{"id":50210,"date":"2024-01-20T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/western-australia-in-extreme-heat-wave-raising-bush-fire-risk-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T11:28:07","slug":"western-australia-in-extreme-heat-wave-raising-bush-fire-risk-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/western-australia-in-extreme-heat-wave-raising-bush-fire-risk-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia in ‘extreme’ heat wave, raising bush fire risk | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parts of Western Australia were gripped on Saturday by an “extreme” heat-wave, raising the risk of bush fires in the vast state, the nation’s weather forecaster said.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology had an “extreme heat-wave warning” in place on Saturday for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia’s largest state, warning temperatures there could hit high forties degrees Celsius over the weekend.<\/p>\n

In the Pilbara mining town of Paraburdoo, about 1,500 km (930 miles) north of the state capital Perth, a maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius (116.6 degrees Fahrenheit) was forecast on Saturday, more than six degrees above the average January maximum, according to forecaster data. It was 42.7 C (108.8 F) there at 11:00 a.m (0300 GMT).<\/p>\n

Australia’s highest temperature on record of 50.7 C (123.2 F) was logged at the Pilbara’s Onslow Airport on Jan. 13, 2022.<\/p>\n

Read<\/strong>:\u00a0Forest dept on \u2018red alert\u2019 as fire concerns mount<\/a><\/p>\n

Saturday’s hot weather lifts the risk of bush fires in an already high-risk fire season amid an El Nino weather pattern, which is typically associated with extreme events such as wildfires, cyclones and droughts.<\/p>\n

“Very hot and dry conditions combined with fresh southerly winds and a fresh to strong west to southwesterly sea breeze will lead to elevated fire dangers on Saturday,” the weather forecaster said on its website, regarding part of the Pilbara.<\/p>\n

The warning comes after hundreds of firefighters earlier this month\u00a0battled<\/a>\u00a0an out-of-control bush fire near Perth amid soaring temperatures, prompting evacuations.<\/p>\n

Australia’s last two fire seasons have been subdued compared with the 2019-2020 “Black Summer” of bush fires that destroyed an area the size of Turkey, killed 33 people, 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n