The Bureau of Meteorology is warning the New South Wales South Coast will be hit by a heatwave over the coming days.
Yesterday Sydney experienced its warmest day in the past six months as unseasonable heat arrived much earlier than expected.
Forecasts predict Sydney’s temperatures will top over 30 degrees until Thursday, 10 degrees above average.
The heatwave is so extreme that firefighters have been forced to stop hazard-reduction burns around the outskirts of Sydney.
With 42,000 runners registered to take part in the Sydney Marathon on Sunday, authorities are warning of severe heat to linger throughout the day.
Unseasonably warm weather in Sydney has wreaked havoc during the city’s marathon yesterday.
The Sydney Marathon experienced a record number of participants with thousands running the gruelling 42km course on a hot spring morning, with temperatures reaching 31 degrees.
Paramedics say they provided treatment to more than 40 people for heat exhaustion as more than 17,000 runners took part in the event.
Authorities say 26 people were taken to hospital, seven of those are in a serious condition this morning.
Meteorologists are forecasting three more days of temperatures above 30 degrees across Sydney’s harbour.
(Sky News)
