As Australia swelters through a heatwave over the weekend rising temperatures could see a new record set for December.
Australia's all-time December temperature record is under threat this weekend as a heatwave engulfs half the country. Modelling suggests the Pilbara and Kimberley districts will climb close to 50C on Saturday and Sunday as a very hot airmass from the scorching deserts of the western interior are driven towards the WA north coast in a south-easterly airstream.
Australia’s all-time, anytime record of 50.7C at Oodnadatta on 2nd January 1960 could even come under threat, but, there is one slight problem, if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? Mandora is only about 5km from the coast, meaning a seabreeze could easily push the 50C isotherm inland away from any official Bureau Of Meteorology thermometers.
The record breaking heat is the result of a very hot and dry airmass which has been simmering over northwest Australia during the past week under cloudless skies and a sun positioned directly overhead.
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