Australia’s southeast coast has been hit by a wild weather, causing heavy disarray in its two busiest air terminals : Sydney and Melbourne, on Friday. Thousands of air passengers stranded as dozens of flights were dropped and passengers waiting for rescheduling.
Due to the strong winds, Sydney Airport dropped 76 flights, closed one runway and reducing flight movements frequency to 23 per hour which is more than half of the standard rate. Melbourne Airport likewise lessened the number of flights permitted to arrive and leave every hour because of Sydney Airport’s retractions.
Wind’s velocity was up to 80 kmph, that caused major bushfires along the east coast, affecting homes and compelling abandonments.
Sydney Airport reported, ‘flights landing or departing are not safe and therefore we are setting off to a solitary runway; there are delays.’
New South Wales state got affected as the strong wind spread fire across the region and Australia’s Rural Fire Service reported 21 fires there.
As per report, a Boeing 737 is used as a waterbomber with the capacity of carrying 15,000 liters of water, fought the bushfires around the city of Newcastle, north of Sydney.
Port Stephens, almost 200 km (124 miles) north of Sydney, a popular tourist destination was also affected by the wild fire since the strong wind aggravated it and constrained an immediate evacuation of occupants. There were no reports of injuries or loss of property.
The climate framework likewise brought snow storms to the southern parts of the country and around the capital city of Canberra, because of frosty breezes and low temperatures in the southern end of the windstorm.
However, the wild weather would be eased by Friday evening, offering some rest to travellers and fire fighters, as reported by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
