Australia’s blistering heat set records for December

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MELBOURNE (Reuters): Australia reported its hottest day on record for December 2019, and it was also the warmest December ever, during a heat wave that began last month and has continued into January, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology said yesterday.

Every Australian state and territory were affected by the heat wave at some stage and numerous locations reported their highest daily maximum temperature on record for December or January, with some locations exceeding their previous records by large margins, it said.

The blazing weather comes after an extreme heat wave that affected the tropical Queensland coast during late November 2019.

The country is currently in the midst of the Southern Hemisphere summer.

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