Thick smoke from bushfires burning in Tasmania’s west has blanketed much of southern parts of the state, including Hobart.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Alex Melitsis said the smoke haze is likely a “bit of a mix” from fires in the state’s northwest and from fires in Victoria’s Grampians region.
“We are expecting the smoke haze to clear out of the Hobart area a bit later on this afternoon as we get more of a cleaner kind of south-westerly wind change moving over the area,” Melitsis told Pulse.
He said there will likely be similar smoke haze over parts of the north, including Launceston, this afternoon.
“So that’ll flush a lot of the smoke out and it might actually start to get a bit smokier around parts of northern and the north-west of Tasmania later on.”
“Depending on what the fires do in the north-west, which it’s hard to say right now because they’re under cloud, there may even be some heavier patches of smoke about parts of the north-west this afternoon,” he said.
“With the fires in the west, we’ve seen a bit of a south-westerly wind change move over the firegrounds this morning and we’re expecting those winds to remain sort of generally southerly later on today and for the rest of tomorrow,” he said.
“So [expect] sort of moderate southerly winds later on today but winds easing overnight tonight and into tomorrow.”
