Looking forward, he said wet and windy weather would affect much of the country on Saturday night.
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"The topography plus the hot, windy weather created a perfect storm for the fire to spread fast, " he said.
More than 170 fires are burning in New South Wales, as lightning strikes cause more blazes amid hot and windy weather.
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Disney World wasn't as crowded as usual Tuesday, and one of its water parks closed because of the soggy, windy weather.
The Met Office has warned many areas are likely to experience a period of very wet and windy weather over the weekend.
Temperatures will steadily rise to an average of 4C later before reaching more than 10C in the south on Sunday followed by wet and windy weather next week, forecasters said.
Station manager Nigel Williams from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said several factors had combined to make the situation worse, including dry and windy weather as well as school holidays.
None of the large cranes at the site was used to move heavy steel beams after midnight, but it was not immediately clear whether the windy weather prompted authorities to suspend crane operations.
The main square of the regeneration project was also set to open that month but has been delayed until April because the wet and windy weather of last summer meant cranes had been unable to operate.
Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
The main square of the regeneration project was also set to open this month but has been delayed until next spring due to the wet and windy weather of the summer, which meant cranes had been unable to operate.
Parts of Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Fife were also affected during a dry and windy spell of weather.
The weather was windy and wet and included a reported tornado on Friday in Bexar, just west of San Antonio, that knocked down trees and power lines and caused "minor building damage, " according to the National Weather Service.
It means keeping a close eye on the weather and navigating around windy areas.
On a windy point called Arnavutkoy, on the European side of the Bosphorus, clusters of weather-beaten fishermen hurled their fishing lines deep into the channel.
Timock says the weather has calmed down a bit, but she says more dry, windy thunderstorms are headed this way and, so far, only a small part of the fire has been brought under control.
The weather for the next four days is set to warm up following a spell of cool, windy conditions in practice and should help scoring, alleviating the feeling in some quarters that the event has lost its magic following two years of harsh weather allied to a toughening up of the course.
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