One state has copped the first 45 degree day in nine months
Western Australia has sweltered through its first 45 degree day in nine months, as forecasters predict a record-breaking summer.
The heat hit parts of Western Australia, including Fitzroy, in the state’s north, where temperatures reached 45.1 degrees on Tuesday.
Forecast maximum temperature across the country on Wednesday. WeatherZone
The day before saw Telfer, in the far eastern Pilbara district reach similar temperatures, when the Celsius hit 43.6 degrees. It’s expected the temperature could reach 47 degrees in the next few days.
Marble Bar, in Pilbara’s north-west, is expected to see highs of about 46 degrees on Thursday and Friday before thunderstorms hit on the weekend.
This was Australia’s first 45°C in nine months. Weatherzone
The scorching heat is set to continue, with temperatures expected to reach the mid-forties over some of Western Australia’s north until Friday, with minimum temperatures to linger around the 30-degree mark.
Weatherzone said that while the string of hot days aren’t record-breaking, they will be enough to classify the run as an “extreme heatwave”.
The hot weather will start to tail off heading into the weekend as tropical moisture builds up, causing a rise in wet weather over Western Australia’s north.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country parts of Queensland and NSW’s north were belted with storms on Tuesday.
Widespread storms lashed millions across the two states on Tuesday afternoon, with a band of severe storm cells stretching hundreds of kilometres as they moved from inland towards the coast.
Across western Sydney, skies turned pitch-black before a sudden burst of hail and heavy rain sent water pouring down suburban driveways, with thunder rattling windows and visibility dropping in minutes.
Flights were also thrown into chaos at Sydney Airport, where it’s understood an incoming Qantas flight from Albury was forced to circle for 90 minutes through driving rain.
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