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regardless of wind direction.
Mr Waterman was confident, though, breezes today would help clear the air.
But the Weatherzone spokesman said southerly winds tomorrow would push smoke from northern NSW over the Gold Coast.
“If the fires are continuing, later on Saturday the winds tend to become more southerly in direction, so then if there are still fires burning over the Northern Rivers it will be the smoke from those fires that will become more of a problem,” the spokesman said.
“Those winds will be slightaffected less strong than what we’ll see over the next 24 hours or so.
“So it will be merely a directional change and becoming lighter late Saturday and into Sunday and Monday.”
Mr Waterman said people with respiratory or other health problems should seek medical advice about the effects of smoke inhalation.
Despite the strong smell of smoke and potential health issues, the eerie haze created some stunning “Kodak moments’’ across the Coast yesterday, particularly at dawn and sunset.
Online forecasters speculy lated that a large dust cloud that had formed in southern Australia could be blown into southern Queensland and reach the coastline today, but the Bureau of Meteorology quashed the claims, saying it was unlikely the east coast would be hit by any dust storms.