 A huge bushfire burning out of control in the Pillig estate forest on Tuesday 420 kilometers northwest of Sydney created its own thunderstorm, Australia's Rural Fire Service said a footage released by the RFS showed the fire burning near the thunderstorm as air quality in Sydney and the Hunter region in New South Wales state plummeted. The smoke drifted hundreds of kilometers south from roughly 136,000 hectares burning across the state's north, an area almost the size of Greater London, according. To the RFS, southerly winds should pick up in the evening and begin to clear the smog, they added. The RFS has termed the blaze with a status of out of control on their fire monitoring website.