Australia just had its hottest day ever. That record might not last the week.
Australia just had its hottest day ever on record — and may surpass that new high before the week is out.
A massive heatwave is sweeping across Australia, further fuelling the enormous bushfires ravaging the country. Preliminary results from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology report that Tuesday, Dec. 17 was the hottest day Australia's had since records began, with an inhospitable average maximum of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 Fahrenheit). Australia's previous temperature record was set in Jan. 2013, which saw an average maximum of 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 Fahrenheit).
Temperatures in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory climbed to over 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 Fahrenheit) in various locations, but the hottest place in Australia was Birdsville, Queensland, which hit 47.7 degrees Celsius (117.9 Fahrenheit) by the afternoon — just three degrees Celsius short of the all-time single-location temperature record. Read more...
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