{"id":20798,"date":"2025-01-27T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/extreme-fire-danger-grips-australias-southeast-amid-heatwave\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:00:00","slug":"extreme-fire-danger-grips-australias-southeast-amid-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/extreme-fire-danger-grips-australias-southeast-amid-heatwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme fire danger grips Australia&#039;s southeast amid heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5349913.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>On Monday, the nation&#8217;s weather forecaster warned that the temperature could reach 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Victoria&#8217;s capital Melbourne, more than 14 C above the city&#8217;s mean maximum temperature for January.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities rated the fire danger at extreme, the second-highest danger rating, in five Victorian regions on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist at the forecaster, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp that the hot and windy conditions could spark &#8220;big fires&#8221; ahead of a cool change due in Victoria later on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the states of New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory were under heatwave alerts on Monday, the forecaster said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>In New South Wales, Australia&#8217;s most-populous state, Narramore said &#8220;low to severe heatwave conditions&#8221; were expected on Monday, forecasting the heatwave to intensify there on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227503\/Extreme-fire-danger-grips-Australia-s-southeast-amid-heatwave\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the nation&#8217;s weather forecaster warned that the temperature could reach 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Victoria&#8217;s capital Melbourne, more than 14 C above the city&#8217;s mean maximum temperature for January. Authorities rated the fire danger at extreme, the second-highest danger rating, in five Victorian regions on Monday. Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}