06 April, 2018

‘Summer-like' heat to nudge late-season heat records across south-east

A burst of heat from inland Australia is set to sweep across the country's south-east in coming days, challenging records for this late in the year, meteorologists said.
Wind whips up the dust over a dry farm in the Deniliquin region.
"Summer-like conditions will linger for several days," Kim Westcott, a meteorologist with Weatherzone, said.

The low-pressure trough will transport to the south-eastern states some of the warmth that has been baking north-western WA. That region set late-season Australian heat records of just shy of 46 degrees on both March 28 and 29.


Read Peter Hannam’s story from The Age - “‘Summer-like' heat to nudge late-season heat records across south-east.”

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