Australia braces for 'catastrophic' weather conditions

Firefighters are battling scores of bushfires raging across southeast Australia, with officials evacuating national parks and warning that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to "catastrophic'' fire conditions in some areas.

Thousands of firefighters were on standby across the nation's most populous state of New South Wales, where fire authorities said conditions were at catastrophic threat levels - the most severe rating available - in parts of the state.

Three different areas of the state are now at that "catastrophic" level of danger.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Sydney

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