Australia narrowly misses out on making it three in a row for its hottest-ever days, but other temperature records continue to tumble by big margins.
Australia has narrowly missed out on making it three in a row for its hottest-ever days, but other temperature records have still been tumbling by big margins.
The ongoing heat saw the national location record for December broken twice within the space of a few hours on Thursday — Eucla in Western Australia reached 49.8C before it was eclipsed by SA's Nullarbor weather station with 49.9C.Global warming is already changing the world before our eyes — let's see what has happened in your lifetime, and what's in store for your future.
The SA capital suffered through its hottest December night on record, one of the deadliest parts of a heatwave — hot nights mean the body doesn't have a chance to cool down and recover.The records this week have not just been broken, they have been surpassed by big margins."We're smashing the extremes by effectively a degree relative to the other cases because that's by how much the Australian temperatures have warmed," he said.
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