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The tropical savannah zone of Northern Australia is warm to hot all year. Summers are hot in most of the country with average January maximum temperatures exceeding 30 °C over most of the mainland, except for high elevations.
South Australia Moomba: 12 January 2013 49.5 °C (121.1 °F) Queensland: Birdsville: 24 December 1972 South Australia Port Augusta: 24 January 2019 Western Australia Forrest 19 December 2019 Roebourne 31 December 2023 49.4 °C (120.9 °F) Queensland Birdsville 25 January 2024 Western Australia Emu Creek Station 16 February 1998 South Australia ...
The shooter, 45-year-old Benjamin Glenn Hoffman, was charged with four counts of murder and later pleaded guilty to three counts. The shooter had been released from prison on parole in January 2019 and was wearing a GPS-tracked electronic monitoring bracelet at the time of the offence. [36] Camp Hill carjacking: 19 February 2020 Camp Hill ...
On 7 January 2018, Sydney was the hottest place on Earth as Penrith reached 47.3 °C (117.1 °F). [28] In April 2018, Sydney had the longest running hot spell for that month with nine consecutive days of temperatures reaching 25 °C (77 °F). Furthermore, the airport and parts of the western suburbs also broke heat records in that month. [29]
On 22 April 2020, a truck driver under the influence of drugs, Mohinder Singh, crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway, in the suburb of Kew East, Australia, killing four police officers who were on routine highway patrol.
The inland deserts of Australia are amongst the hottest areas on earth, particularly the inland parts of north-west Australia. Every summer, intense heat builds starting in the Pilbara district of Western Australia around October/November and spreading widely over the tropical and subtropical inland parts of the continent by January. In the ...
Australia could be heading for its third-warmest summer on record, with many places likely to experience a warmer and drier period than normal from March to May, weather authorities said on Thursday.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology's 2011 Australian Climate Statement, Australia had lower than average temperatures in 2011 as a consequence of a La Niña weather pattern; however, "the country's 10-year average continues to demonstrate the rising trend in temperatures, with 2002–2011 likely to rank in the top two warmest 10-year ...