Source: Bureau of Meteorology
For the Far North Coast, Greater Hunter, Greater Sydney Region,
New England, Northern Slopes and North Western fire weather
districts
Issued at 4:39 pm EDT on Sunday 15 October 2023.
The NSW Rural Fire Service advises you to:
Action your Bushfire Survival Plan now.
Monitor the fire and weather situation through your local radio
station, www.rfs.nsw.gov.au and www.bom.gov.au.
Call 000 (Triple Zero) in an emergency.
For the rest of Sunday 15 October:
Extreme Fire Danger in the following fire weather district:
Greater Hunter
For Monday 16 October:
Extreme Fire Danger is forecast for the following fire weather
districts:
Far North Coast, Greater Hunter, Greater Sydney Region, New
England, Northern Slopes and North Western
Weather Situation
Extreme fire danger continues until early Sunday evening with
warm, dry and gusty west to northwesterly winds conditions.
On Monday, warm to hot and dry with fresh and gusty west to
northwesterly winds ahead of a cooler, gusty south to southwesterly
change extending from the west and south during the day. Isolated
showers or thunderstorms developing across coastal areas in the
afternoon and evening.
For information on preparing for bushfires go to
www.rfs.nsw.gov.au.
Total
Fire Ban and Current Fire Danger Map
15/Oct/2023 06:33 AM