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"Hobart residents sweated through the city’s hottest night in 112 years as a
severe heatwave continues to affect large parts of south-east Australia.
Extreme heat is forecast to continue across South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania
and southern New South Wales for several days, the Bureau of Meteorology said
on Sunday after record temperatures caused the cancellation of long weekend
events.
Saturday was the hottest March day on record for Edithburgh on South
Australia’s Yorke peninsula (41.7C) and Kanagulk (40.6C) in western Victoria.
The overnight low temperature in Hobart was 24.3C – the warmest night in the
Tasmanian capital since 1912, according to the bureau’s records. There was a
slight reprieve when the temperature dropped after 8am Sunday morning.
Sarah Scully, a senior meteorologist at the bureau, said hot nights were
“really unusual” for Hobart, where the mean minimum overnight temperature for
March is 11C. She said maximum temperatures were about 10 to 16 degrees above
the March average across the heatwave-affected areas.
“It was very hot last night,” Scully said.
“There’s been observed or forecast greater than 37C days for Melbourne for the
entire long weekend. [The extreme heat] started [on Saturday] and is expected
to continue right through the early hours of Tuesday morning.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
