According to stats from the Bureau of Meteorology, the residents of north and central Queensland have been leaving pools of sweat on already sticky train seats all month, as we drip our way to the possible hottest July on record.
With no help from the fog and foul wind plaguing the city this month, Brisbane‘s on route to just miss out on the record average maximum for July by 0.3°C, with an average temp for the month currently sitting at 22.7°C – almost an entire degree over the historical mid-winter average.
Which means southeast Queensland are capital L Losers who are unlikely to break any records this week.
BoM is pointing at a lack of “penetration” (~titters~) of cold air from the south as the main reason for the unfathomably warm winter.
Forecaster Harry Clark said:
“We haven’t really had any major cold blasts.
“We did have that one, if you remember, a few weeks ago that led to those cool daytime temperatures and that was quite windy but besides that we haven’t really seen much cold air in Queensland and given that it’s also been really dry, which allowed the temperatures overnight to cool off quite quickly but also during the day to warm up quite quickly.
“I guess you can attribute that to a persistent ridge that’s really been sitting over southern Australia for quite a while now.”
We’ll know for sure if your visible sweat patches can be statistically proven later this week, after today’s final temps are recorded and all the boxes have been checked by the climate department.
And the heatwave ain’t over yet: BoM expects a blazing August in Queensland too.
