"The past four months have been the hottest ever recorded on the continent, with a new countrywide high temperature on January 7 busting
the mercury bulb at 104.6 Fahrenheit...
This January, much of the country has been locked into temperatures
exceeding 113 degrees thanks to an atmospheric ridge that delayed
the
rainy season for several weeks. Sydney hit 114
degrees last Friday, establishing a new high for the city in 150 years
of record keeping; other historic firsts include 110.7 degrees in
Wellington, 111.4 in Adelaide and at the charmingly named gas town of
Moomba (you know, right between Innamincka and Strzelecki), a
near-impossible-to-believe reading of 121.3 degrees."
For those who are Celsius-challenged, normal human body temperature (98.6F) is the orange on the heat scale. More details at
The Atlantic Cities.
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