‘Getting close': El Nino event seen as not far off as Sydney sizzles

The hot start to November may be a taste of the summer to come with meteorologists watching a Pacific Ocean that is being primed for an El Nino event.

Early season heat in Sydney - and the growing prospect of an El Nino.

Sydney backed up Friday's scorcher with another day in the mid-30s across the basin before a weak cool change arrived on Saturday afternoon.

According to Weatherzone, NSW averaged 34 degrees on Friday, the hottest this early in the warming season in at least two decades.

"In the past 20 years, the previous earliest in the season the state had got this hot was the 12th November, in 2009," Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist with Weatherzone, said.

Read the story from The Age by Peter Hannam - “‘Getting close': El Nino event seen as not far off as Sydney sizzles.”

Many swelter in unseasonally hot weather

The beach was a great place to be, but
you needed an umbrella to protect
you from the sweltering conditions.

Australia is grappling with a seemingly endless summer, as every state and territory swelter through an unseasonally hot start to autumn.

The country is experiencing warm weather as the mercury climbs above average in most areas, during a month usually reserved for a cool change, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has said.

Only small areas along the southern coast of Western Australia and along the central Queensland coast have recorded below average maximum temperatures so far this month.

Read the ABC story - “Australia-wide unseasonally hot weather break records, heat set to continue, BoM says.”