Min of 24C in FC. That’s a couple of degrees above our average max for January, so another warm one already. Going to be verging on hot in the south today, and hot in the north but shy of the crazy heat of the past few days up there. The fierce heat will be over NSW. Cloud and showers will take the edge of things for us. Rainfall looks hit and miss, and models not agreeing on where will do best (though pretty clear the north won’t get much
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But still no meaningful change to flush the overall heat away. There won’t be many heat records left standing at the end of this summer if this keeps up
The only things that has saved us breaking absolute heat records has been the lack of low level sites in WA and quite benign synoptic patterns. One stat I picked up was that 4 of the nations hottest ten days have occurred in the last week (alone..).
Thursday next week looks less bad this morning in EC. System mostly dives under us so a bad day but not the awful one being shown yesterday. Maybe some rain, though I’ll believe it when I see it in the gauge