Thankfully progs are tending to show the wind slackening as the hottest temperatures arrive around Friday. Still, very unpleasant temps with potential for yet another 45C day in the northwest (these used to happen about once every five years
), and 40C to low 40s south. Be pretty worried about the far west and far east where recent rain hasn’t been too good, so remains potential for fires to run
Signs that we could get a good rain event on the backside with deep tropical moisture streaming in. EC has near record or record high precipitable water values, approaching 60mm locally on Saturday.