Temperatures across Victoria will reach the high 30s for the third straight day in a run of March heat not experienced since the 1940s.
Temperatures across Victoria are set to reach the high 30s for the third straight day.Melbourne's long-running Moomba Parade has been cancelled and the Pitch festival, west of Ballarat, has been called off.
Conditions in Victoria over the last three days have been 10 to 16 degrees above the March average and a heatwave warning remains in place for most of the state.Senior meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology, Sarah Scully, said there Victoria had not seen three consecutive days of autumn temperatures in the high 30s since 1942.
An Extreme Fire Danger warning and total fire ban is in place for the South West district of Victoria "I'm really pleased that in those areas where we have a total fire ban that those events have been cancelled."Tanya Smith's two sons attended the Pitch Festival until it was cancelled, but she said it should not have gone ahead.
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