A “classic heatwave set-up” will deliver the hottest run of temperatures for south-eastern Australia since just prior to the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, the Bureau of Meteorology said. While forest conditions are not as dry as the period prior to the major bushfires of February 2009 in Victoria, grasslands are parched and may pose some high fire risks, said senior bureau forecaster Terry Ryan. The bureau raised Melbourne’s forecast maximums slightly for some days this week, just as the Australian...
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