After witnessing a sweltering night on Tuesday, Sydneysiders woke up to a sultry record-breaking Wednesday morning. Counting from the year 1955, both the temperature archives at 6 am and 9 am respectively were broken.
As per the Meteorology Department, the early morning 6 am temperatures that the city witnessed today was a soaring 31.2°C, even warmer than Dubai. Moreover, the temperatures recorded at 9 am today was 36.5°C.
The earlier 9 am record was set on December 20, 1955, when the mercury hit a soaring 35°C. And on January 9, 1983, the 6 am record was 30.2°C.
As per the weatherman, most of the central Australia is influenced by a hot air mass. This is the reason why most of the country’s southeast is heating up thus bringing the heatwave to NSW, Queensland, and South Australia.
Though coastal areas still cooled down as a cool southerly change resulted in bringing down the temperatures. Sydney Harbour cooled down to 25°C while Penrith also observed plunging temperatures from 45C at 2 pm to 34.5C at 3 pm.
As per the experts, some relief is predicted for the city on Thursday when mercury is likely to settle at 25°C in the city while 27°C in the west. However, the temperature may scale up again on Friday. Furthermore, sweltering weather is expected to prevail in the next week as well hence no respite from heatwave is foreseen as of now.
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