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Australia sweats in the heat, lifting fire danger amid El Nino

SYDNEY: Large areas of Australia were inundated again on Sunday due to a widening heat wave, which the national weather forecaster said raised the risk of fire at an already high fire risk season as the country endures an El Niño weather pattern. “Extreme” heat warnings, the highest risk rating, were in effect for a second day for parts of Western Australia and extended to South Australia, while parts of Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory were under “severe” warnings. said the soothsayer. He warned that in Western Australia, the country’s geographically largest state, the remote Pilbara and