Hey, Sydney: despite evidence suggesting otherwise, you didn’t actually wake up in purgatory this morning.
Rather, the thick ‘n’ gritty layer of smoke enveloping your fine city can be blamed on hundreds of controlled fires the Regional Fire Service is conducting this weekend.
While that’s not as cool as, you know, entering some form of the afterlife, fire crews are pretty stoked on today’s weather conditions giving them the ability to safely clear all that flammable material.
Less stoked are those with respiratory conditions, or sightseers who were deadset on capturing the city’s iconic visage. It also stinks.
Then again, the conditions are providing a rarely-seen ~ a e s t h e t i c ~ for Sydney:
Most of the burn-offs are happening in the Blue Mountains region. Weather permitting, they’ll keep up for the next couple of days, giving our fine bridge a chance to muscle in on the Golden Gate’s legendarily fuzzy views.
Eat it, San Francisco.
Source: ABC.
Photo: Spiro Arkoudis / Instagram.
