Lake Burley Griffin. Photo: Paul Jurak
Strong winds are set to return to the capital after some respite from the weather that caused 33 people to make calls to emergency services for help on Saturday, and 135 last Thursday.
A cold front is due to move through on Tuesday. It will bring ''a wet and cloudy day, with the winds increasing during the morning'', according to the Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster.
While the winds remained calm on Sunday with temperatures falling just shy of 21 degrees, the weather forecast for the Family & Community Day holiday on Monday is even warmer, with a predicted top of 25 degrees.
But the mercury will head south again when the front arrives, with temperatures forecast to ''drop back into the low to mid-teens''.
While wind gusts of up to 55-60km/h are predicted, they won't be quite as strong as Saturday, when winds of up to 75km/h were recorded at the Canberra airport weather station. In the Snowy Mountains, a severe weather warning is in place for damaging winds ahead of the front, which is expected to move through south-western New South Wales on Monday night and through the Alpine areas on Tuesday afternoon.
Firefighters have managed to contain most of the bushfires burning across NSW after a day of favourable conditions.
On Sunday, firefighters remained at the Barrenjoey Headland on Sydney's northern beaches where a blaze broke out a day before and threatened a historic lighthouse.
Fire crews managed to save the structure but a nearby cottage sustained some damage.
The fire burnt through 17 hectares of bushland around Summer Bay, made famous in the long-running television soapie Home and Away.
Sixty fires are still burning across the state, but Rural Fire Service spokesman Brendan Doyle said only 25 were uncontained and not threatening properties. One major fire is still burning in the Great Lakes area. with AAP
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