A burst of hot northerly winds will bring the highest temperatures in years to parts of south-east Australia this weekend, while ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily carves a trail of torrential rain and flooding across western Queensland and the eastern Northern Territory.
A burst of hot northerly winds will bring the highest temperatures in years to parts of south-east Australia this weekend, while ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily carves a trail of torrential rain and flooding across western Queensland and the eastern Northern Territory.
For New South Wales, the heatwave will rapidly transition into a tropical deluge on Monday and Tuesday, as the ex-cyclone finally departs Queensland, after a meandering 10-day journey that brought the heaviest rain in more than a decade to parts of the state.This weekend will culminate in the hottest weather in up to three years across parts of South Australia, Victoria and NSW as maximums climb to about 12 degrees above averages. The heat follows Australia's third warmest January on record — temperatures across the country were 1.54C above the 1961-1990 baseline average and around 2C above pre-industrial levels. Sydney has been particularly uncomfortable this summer suffering through maximum temperatures nearly 3C above the long-term average and humidity nearly 10 percentage points above norma
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