text: While that was “horrendous”, he said it did not bring the prolonged pollution that has blighted Canberra this summer.
  “And I can’t really see that we’re going to get any real clearance from the smoke until the fires go out or until we actually get some westerly winds,” he said.
  “The downside is it will be much hotter. And if there are fires to the west or the north-west, those winds will bring it over Canberra,” he said.
  Barton resident Jordan McGregor took these photos of light smoke haze last month (top), and the thick pollution on Sunday (bottom).