This is where keeping global temperature rises to 2C hotter by year whatever becomes a bit ridiculous. It's already 6-8C hotter so far as i can tell. The pattern seems to be that there will be hotspots of 'instant climate change' - the question is where they will pop up and how frequent they will become.

Penrith, on the outskirts of Sydney, where fires are burning, is expecting days of 45 and 46 over the next three days. That's 16-17C above average.

At this stage the winds are not looking great but not extreme northerlies either (35kph). - The biggest winds of 50kph coming with the cool change. Likely to be homes lost and certainly massive amounts of forest incinerated but hopefully just short of catastrophic. But if the northerlies are bigger than forecast then you're looking at hell on earth.