Australia has three most famous specialties:
Milk powder, kangaroo, good air.
In Sydney, (welcome to pay attention to our Tik Tok account: those things in Sydney or search for "mandage")
The air quality is excellent most of the time.
But there are always a few days in a year,
Either the government takes the initiative to burn mountains to prevent fire,
Either there was an accidental fire in the forest,
Sydney will be covered with smog,
The whole city seems to have disappeared,
There is a pungent smell in the air,
But it smells a little "burnt" …
By the way, this morning,
Just sleeping in Xiaobian,
When deeply inhaling the first breath of air,
Smell the familiar smell again!
Open the window and look,
It’s really foggy,
Everything is getting hazy!
On the way to work,
What you see in Sydney,
It is no longer the fresh and clean Sydney of the past.
But "hazy beauty" everywhere. …
The opera house was lost in smoke;
The bridge has also become vaguely:
The water is misty,
Is it fog or haze?
The following photos are said to have been taken at Sydney airport.
Is it like the legendary Penglai wonderland? ? ?
In the smoke,
The whole city seems to have disappeared. …
According to media reports,
The visibility in Sydney today is only about 1500 meters.
In some areas, it has dropped to 100 meters!
And this smog is not only serious,
The coverage is also very wide:
Not only is the whole of Sydney shrouded in smog,
Nowra in the southernmost part of NSW is foggy!
Even more frightening is that,
The foggy weather in Sydney may last for another day or two!
Why is this smog so "fierce"?
That’s why,
This smog was caused by a mountain fire!
How did the mountain fire come from? !
Tracing back to the source,
The cause of this smog may be a flash of lightning!
According to reports, a few days ago,
Near Port Macqurie,
A flash of lightning chopped down and ignited the mountain fire.
Then a single spark will start a prairie fire!
The mountain fire started burning last Saturday.
After that, it quickly swept across the northeast of NSW.
Near Port Macquarie,
The fire area will reach 2500 hectares!
As of Wednesday night,
There are still 72 forests burning in NSW.
The fires in 38 places were not controlled!
Mountain fires are bound to produce a lot of smoke,
Unfortunately, the north wind blew these two days.
The result is smog from north to south!
So in Sydney these days,
PM2.5 is bursting in the air!
Thursday morning,
Sydney, east, west, north and south,
Air quality is the most serious:
HAZARDOUS，
Harmful grade …
Xiaobian thought,
When the smog clears for a while,
The air quality should be better.
However, and! No! Yes!
The following is the air quality index at noon on Thursday:
Except for a few areas,
PM2.5 is still all dangerous!
In view of such "harmful" weather,
The NSW Health Bureau also issued a health reminder:
People with asthma, heart and lung diseases and chronic respiratory diseases should minimize outdoor activities. If they are at home, close the doors and windows and turn on the air conditioner. The risks of the elderly and children are relatively greater.
By the way,
Today’s Sydney is not only called "it hurts to breathe",
And it may be difficult to breathe, because:
Parts of Sydney,
It will reach a temperature of 34 degrees against the sky!
Speaking of this mountain fire,
Mountain fires in NSW burn almost every year.
Some are preventive mountain burning,
Some are uncontrollable mountain fires.
However, even the mountain fires that burn every year,
It may still cause huge losses!
In mid-October this year,
A forest fire also burned in NSW.
Two people were killed,
64 houses were destroyed!
Facing the fire,
Humans can’t escape,
The small animals in the mountains are even more helpless. …
At present, this mountain fire,
The most heartbreaking news is:
The fire just reached an important koala habitat.
That is, the aforementioned Port Macquarie!
Experts estimate that:
At least 350 koalas will die in this fire!
Sue Ashton, president of Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, said:
We have been estimating the number of koala casualties. At least two-thirds of the area burned by this fire is an important koala breeding habitat. The koala genes here are very diverse, which is very rare, so such a loss is a huge tragedy for the whole country.
Due to habitat loss,
Coupled with the characteristics of koalas themselves,
Koala is already an endangered species!
This fire,
It is really "adding fuel to the fire" for the koala population. …
Ashton said:
When a koala encounters a fire, it will climb to the top of the tree and curl up into a ball, waiting for the fire to go out. However, with this intensity of fire, the koala will be burned alive, and the chance of survival is very small. Even if koalas are lucky enough to survive, when they climb down from the tree, their claws may be burned by the residual temperature.
However, the fire is ruthless and affectionate.
No matter what kind of fire it is,
There are always a group of people who risk their lives,
Carry a heavy load for us:
After seeing these photos,
Xiaobian hopes that all firefighters can be safe!
I also hope that this fire will be controlled quickly.
Koalas, don’t suffer any more,
Sydney people will regain clean air, blue sky and white clouds as soon as possible!