Southern Australia has seen record summer temperatures set this week

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Never before seen high temperatures have been recorded in South Australia, NSW and Victoria.
Highest being in Renmark, South Australia, - 49.6C, 121F
Fowler’s Gap, NSW, - 49.1C, 120F
Walpeup, new record for Victoria, 48.9C, 120F
Hopetoun shared this record.
Mildura, NSW, 48.6C, 119.5F, hottest day on record
Loxton, South Australia, 48.2C, 118.7F hottest day on record
Broken Hill, NSW, 47.8C, 118F. Hottest day on record.

These extreme temperatures will hang around for a couple more days.
Bushfires in Victoria have burnt 400,000 hectares, close to 1 million acres.
130 homes have been destroyed.
Considered to be the worse bushfires since the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires which burnt more than 24 million hectares (59 million acres; 240,000 square kilometres; 93,000 square miles) destroyed over 3,000 buildings and directly killed 33 people.

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I read about it. Looks like you can only live at the coast.
How are you coping, Bretrick?
I thought the contrast to our weather couldn’t be any sharper with lots of snow and night temps often around minus ten degrees but then I heard that the real contrast is to the weather in the US.

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I am okay. On that map of Australia, I am bottom left, Perth.
The extreme heat bubble missed us.
We do reach 40+ several times during summer but it is bearable.
Yesterday here was 25C, today is 27C. So no trouble here.

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