Australia swelters as heatwave blows into the southeast

Author: News.com.au   Date Posted:23 November 2014 

Heatwave hits Queensland and NSW

MUCH of the nation sweltered today as a blistering heatwave moved southeast across the country into New South Wales after already baking Queensland and South Australia.

After a hot Friday — when it was 36C by 10am — the temperature soared to record highs in Sydney’s west. It hit 45.3 in Richmond, which broke the previous highest November temperature of 43.6C set in 1982, and 44.9 in Penrith, which is the highest recorded temperature at that weather station, said Rebecca Kamitakahara, of the Bureau of Meteorology.

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