Sorry Syd, You’re Gonna Sweat Through A Mega Heatwave For The Rest Of 2016

If you thought Australia‘s temperamental weather system was going to let 2016 go without a fight, you are sorely, sorely mistaken. First torrential rain came to the red centre, and now it looks like Sydney‘s going to swelter through a painful heatwave for the rest of the year.

It was a hot Christmas, and it’ll be a hotter new year, with the rest of the year possibly handing Sydney three consecutive days with temperatures hitting over 40 degrees. On Thursday it’ll probably hit 43 degrees out west. That… is too hot, imo.
It’s expected that the temperatures in Penrith and Richmond on Friday will be the hottest December weather on record in the area.
As expected temperatures like that are a headache for fire brigades across the city. “Whenever there are hot conditions, anything can happen,” RFS spokesman John Redman told The Daily Telegraph.

“We have 74,000 volunteers right across NSW and every brigade will be manned and if something does happen they will respond immediately.”

If you’re a city-dweller in Sydney you’ll be spared the worst of it – the mercury will likely only rise as high as 39 degrees over the coming week. Only. Small mercies.
Get your sopping wet tea towels out, folks.
Photo: The Simpsons.

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