The intense heat wave has gripped parts of Eastern Australia which have been witnessing record breaking temperatures. The maximum temperatures across the country's southeast have been reported to witness soaring 40°C.
Though the interior regions of the country are sweltering under more intense temperatures. On Monday, Moomba, a town in the northeast of South Australia, witnessed temperatures scaling up to a whopping 45°C. However, the January record for the town stands at 49.6°C.
Likewise, Moruya, a town in the southeastern New South Wales recorded the daytime highs settling at 43°C.
In fact, record-breaking highs have also been observed by Sydney which has been sweltering from quite some time now. Sydney has seen a total of nine days where the mercury has hit the 35°C mark and even above. This is practically equal to the records made in summer of 1895/96.
This month has been depicted as the warmest ever recorded January for Sydney as the average maximum, minimum and mean temperatures were at its peak.
Similarly, heat has not pardoned the North of the state border, Brisbane that has sweltered in daytime highs of 31.4°C in January. This was, in fact, the warmest in last 13 years. The boiling weather has unavoidably resulted in total fire bans across much of southeastern Australia. The parched conditions remain across New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and Victoria.
As per the weatherman, heat is expected to continue across the north of New South Wales this week. However, some relief from the prevailing heat can be expected for Sydney as temperatures may again nudge back to mid-30s once again.
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