More than 60 fires threaten NSW and 45 burn in Queensland – as it happened
by Naaman Zhou and Helen Davidson from on (#4TYNG)
More than 575 NSW schools to close as conditions forecast to worsen on Tuesday, while dozens of bushfires continue to burn across Australia's east coast. This blog is now closed
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9.31am GMT
This is where we'll leave our rolling coverage today. Guardian Australia will be covering all the developments tomorrow. Here's what's happened so far:
9.00am GMT
ABC Weather has published an explanation of why Tuesday is looking so bad: it's a cold front.
"Tomorrow with the winds you'll be seeing a more south-easterly direction," Grace Legge, senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, told the ABC.
Why a cold front signals disaster for fire danger https://t.co/NOr4mZ54B3 via @ABCNews pic.twitter.com/3ZrwsfqZeg
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