The weekend provided some relief from the punishing heat. Well, that’s over with Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney set to roast.
While conditions eased in many places on the weekend, allowing firefighters to push back against the blazes, a spike in the mercury may undo much of that good work.
Melbourne could hit 38C today, inland Victoria is looking at 40C, while western parts of Sydney are forecast to top out at 42C tomorrow. A heatwave covering vast stretches of Australia is in store for the next few days with severe heatwaves stretching across New South Wales, parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
The culprit is a fierce cold front sweeping in from the west. Ahead of it, the front is ramping up temperatures. Once it passes, the mercury could fall by as much as 20C in just a few hours. With any cool change there can be strong winds, which won’t help efforts to control fires. The cold front is unlikely to bring any rain, and that’s what is desperately needed.The heat is travelling from Western Australia, which has experienced a run of unusually hot weather in the first few weeks of summer that shows little sign of abating. Yesterday, that heat reachedToday in South Australia is a cool by comparison 27C and that will drop to just 22C by Friday with overnight lows around 12C.
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