PSA: It’ll Be Unusually Fkn Hot Tomorrow, And It’s All Space’s Fault

Look, we know it’s summer, and summer is supposed to be hot. But just as a head’s up – it’s going to be PARTICULARLY bloody hot tomorrow, and there’s a very good reason for it.

Melbourne, inland Victoria and New South Wales, and Canberra are all expected to swelter under above-average, inferno-like temperatures. Sydney, in a good news situation, will feel a little sweet relief after sweating it out through a bunch of warmer days.
The Victorian capital is forecast to cop a day of 41 degrees tomorrow, whilst regional inland centres across Victoria and NSW are tipped to experience weather that pushes into the mid-40s.
Meanwhile, Canberra is forecast to cop 38 degrees straight to the face, and Adelaide will sweat through an unpleasant 39 degree day.
The good news is that a cool change is on the way, which will drop temperatures towards the end of the week, before another hot patch starts blowing through – with Western Australia the first to feel its wrath when it arrives in Perth on Friday.
And where it gets real interesting is the reason for the sustained warm weather.
Copping a veritable 1-2-Kostya Tszyu from Mother Nature, a slow-moving mass of hot air that’s stubbornly hovering over central Australia is currently making things toasty – and this is the main source of the current heatwave.
But compounding matters further is simply the position we’re currently in with regards to Earth‘s orbit. The Perihelion is currently underway. In layman’s terms, it’s the point where the Earth’s orbit is the closest to the sun.
Because we’re the “lucky” country, this point in the movement of our celestial body just so happens to coincide with the dead middle of our summer season. Hot shit.
Luckily, that cool change will arrive for the south-eastern states at around dusk tomorrow, and Melbourne in particular is going to be particularly dramatic – the temperature dropping from 41 tomorrow, to 20 on Thursday.
Bloody summer. How the hell about it.
Source: News.com.au.

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