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.
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| The BOM provides an update on Australia's weather. |
Bureau of Meteorology data suggests the national average maximum temperature reached 41.0 degrees Celsius on Thursday, after hitting 41.9C on Wednesday and 40.7C on Tuesday.
Before this week, the record of 40.3C had stood since January 2013.
But Victoria's December record for an individual location was smashed today when it reached 47.9C at Hopetoun Airport and Horsham, well above the old mark of 46.6C set in 1976.
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.
Read the ABC News story by Kate Doyle and Michael Slezak -“More records tumble as heatwave rolls on, scientists point finger at climate change.”
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