Still more than 40 active fires in New South Wales
A car drives through a flooded street in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, February 7, 2020, in this screenshot obtained from a social media video.Western Australia was lashed by destructive winds on Saturday as a tropical cyclone neared landfall while much of the bushfire-battered east coast faced flood warnings due to heavy rain.
At 10 a.m. AWST , Damien was a Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 150 kilometres per hour and gusts of 205 kph , the Bureau of Meteorology in Western Australia.“Very destructive winds, very heavy rainfall and storm surge are expected as Damien crosses the coast near Dampier early this afternoon,” the agency said on Twitter.
After months of destructive wildfires that have razed millions of hectares of land, Australia has been hit in recent weeks by wild weather that has brought heavy downpours, hail storms and a heat wave.
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