Australia Records Hottest Winter Day On Record; Alice Springs Daily High Tops Average Maximum Summer Temp

Winter has ended in Australia with weather records broken across the country – with expectations of August temperature records being broken on the final day of the month. Amid wild winds in the country’s south, a warm run of weather was expected to continue through the weekend in central and southern Queensland, along with north-eastern New South Wales. Brisbane is expected to see multiple days of over 30C.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast that temperatures were expected to reach 34C on Saturday and Sunday in the Queensland capital, although Brisbane city recorded a maximum temperature of 32.9C on Saturday. Monday’s maximum was forecast to be 33C, before temperatures cool through the end of next week.

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On Monday, Australia recorded its highest winter temperature on record - 41.6C at Yampi Sound, off Western Australia’s northwest coast. Sydney hit 30C in winter for just the third time since records began in 1858, and parts of Sydney recorded their hottest winter temperature. Sydney Airport broke its winter record of 31.1C on Friday, hitting 31.6C at 2:48pm. On the same day, Birdsville, in Queensland’s west, recorded the state’s hottest winter temperature on record – 39.7C – about 15 degrees above average.

Alice Springs set a new winter temperature record – 36.6C – a winter day that was hotter than the average maximum in January, that city’s hottest month. Many parts of Western Australia registered their wettest and warmest winters on record. “Across various locations, multiple records are set to be broken, both for the season and month, for both temperature and rainfall,” Quincy Tut wrote on Weatherzone. “Perth Airport looks set to experience its warmest winter temperature average of just over 15C in its 80 years of records, about 1.6C above the long-term average.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/31/more-august-temperature-records-expected-to-fall-amid-warm-weather-and-winds-across-east-coast