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Today's Tour Down Under stage through the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale will go ahead. (Getty Images: Dario Belingheri)
Catastrophic fire danger ratings have been declared for the Yorke Peninsula and the eastern Eyre Peninsula.
The Tour Down Under will go ahead as usual but spectators have been urged to stay safe.
The temperature on Australia Day in Adelaide could reach 45 degrees Celsius.
South Australian authorities say today fire danger conditions are "as serious as it gets" and that the public should be vigilant, as the day's Tour Down Under stage is modified due the heat.
The Country Fire Service has declared catastrophic fire danger ratings for the eastern Eyre Peninsula and the Yorke Peninsula today, while 12 other regions have been rated as extreme, including the Mount Lofty Ranges.
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Australian cycling star Jay Vine has survived a race crash caused by a kangaroo to win the Tour Down Under for the second time.
Despite losing two more UAE Team Emirates colleagues on Sunday's last stage, Vine's commanding lead was enough of a buffer. He also won the Santos Tour in 2023.
British sprint ace Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease A Bike) won the last stage.
Ochre jersey works his way back into field after bike change as group sits up
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The challenges continued for UAE Team Emirates-XRG on Sunday's final stage of the Santos Tour Down Under, as while the team may have started stage 5 in the enviable position of having Jay Vine in front with an almost unheard of gap to his nearest rival of 1:03 they'd lost the previously second-placed Jhonatan Narváez from the race to a nasty crash on stage 4. An injured Vegard Stake Laengen also had to leave the race on Saturday.That left the team with five riders on the start line and then, in the early part of stage 5, there came word that there had been a crash in peloton, with a kangaroo visible hopping off the side of the road as the footage on broadcaster Seven panned back to vision of the after-effects of the crash. It showed one of Vine's teammates, Mikkel Bjerg, on the road as Vine was remounting and starting his chase.
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Those keen to exercise outside will need to get up early in the coming days as searing heat sweeps large parts of the country. (AAP: Bianca De Marchi)
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is warning of a multi-day heatwave covering more than half of the country.
Temperatures are forecast to exceed 45C in some areas, sparking extreme fire danger.
Parts of southern Australia are forecast to hit temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius for multiple days in a row this week, as intense heat makes its way across the country.
It comes as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warns of what is likely to be the "most significant" heatwave south-eastern Australia has seen in six years.
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Australians are being urged to heed fire warnings as temperatures soar across multiple states, bringing forecast conditions not seen since the Black Summer bushfires.
South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and NSW are set to swelter through oppressive temperatures into the weekend as a heatwave grips southeastern states, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The conditions are set to be the worst since the 2019-20 summer bushfires that killed more than 30 people and burned through millions of hectares.
Fire danger expected to reach extreme levels in South Australia, Victoria and inland NSW this week
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More than half of Australia is set to swelter in blistering temperatures in what is expected to be the worst heatwave since the devastating black summer bushfires.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned that dry, hot conditions would create extreme fire conditions across several states as temperatures topped 45C in parts of the country.
The senior meteorologist Angus Hines said that western and south-western NSW were likely to experience multiple consecutive days of hot conditions this week, with temperatures in Sydney to climb into the high 30s or low 40s on Saturday.
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