Sydney live performance goers are sweating by way of a brutally scorching day, with temperatures within the 40s, hoping for aid from a cool change sweeping up the east coast.
At the least 100,000 individuals are descending on the leisure precinct at Homebush the place the mercury climbed to 42.5C at 3pm on Saturday afternoon.
US rockers Foo Fighters will play to an enormous crowd at Accor Stadium whereas US rapper 50 Cent can be anticipated to get hundreds of individuals leaping at his second Sydney present at Qudos Financial institution Enviornment, regardless of the stifling warmth.
Hundreds extra are attending the exhausting techno dance music pageant Epik on the Sydney Showgrounds.
With an earlier begin, the dance music followers may miss out on the cool change, however Foo Fighters and 50 Cent followers might be in luck.
The Bureau of Meteorology anticipated aid to succeed in the Sydney coast between six and eight pm.
Movies posted to social media present organisers outlining entry to cooling station on the Epik occasion web site, with cool water misting followers and quite a few water stations arrange for patrons.
Epik followers have been urged to maintain hydrated.
NSW Well being has issued a factsheet urging concertgoers to take a break from dancing in the event that they’re feeling unwell and attempt to keep away from the solar.
It advises followers to benefit from cool-down stations, and warned the consequences of medication and alcohol are sometimes worsened by excessive warmth.
“If you happen to’re dancing, open air and or taking MDMA it may be very simple to overheat because the drug interrupts your physique’s cooling down mechanism, that means your physique will create extra warmth than it will possibly do away with,” the warning learn.
Frontier Touring mentioned further workers had been employed to assist help with first help stations arrange across the stadium.
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