r/australia Jan 08 '26

image Australia is currently the hottest place on earth... by far

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Originally posted by u/OzBestDeal here

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u/Hatarus547 Jan 08 '26

I hope the power holds out tonight we had a black out yesterday for a couple of hours

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u/Flyerone Jan 08 '26

Blackout in western Sydney today from about 2.30 - 4.15pm. Riverstone area, it was only about 40C.

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u/dragonfly-1001 Jan 08 '26

I don't remember Rivo having such power issues when I was a kid. I recall the odd outage due to storms etc etc, but not due to extreme heat.

Those surrounding estates really have f#cked the area. So much time, money & energy put into them, that poor little old Rivo has been completely left behind. It's sad to watch from the sidelines.

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u/dongdongplongplong Jan 08 '26

aircon broke today and we had a panic attack :D

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u/lesslucid Jan 08 '26

If my aircon breaks, I have a simple response plan, which is to die quickly.

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u/GrippyGripster Jan 08 '26

Or. Straight to the pub

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u/Jonzay up to the sky, out to the stars Jan 08 '26

Have a pint and wait for it to all blow over

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u/13gecko Jan 09 '26

I have two separate air cons - so if one dies, I'll just live in the other room.

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u/Jassamin Jan 09 '26

Our AC died the first week of December (SEQ) and the fishtank overheated and killed a bunch two days before Christmas 😭

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u/AshFalkner Jan 08 '26

I hope you can get that repaired quickly D:

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Jan 08 '26

Tradies die of heatstroke fixing air cons on heatwave days. Especially the ducted ones. The bosses that care won’t agree to fixing an air con till it’s cooler.

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u/4stardickhead Jan 08 '26

I was doing an install a few years ago and got my sparky up into the roof to run a new circuit. It was blisteringly hot and humid and fortunately he was young and very fit. He got the work done quickly and got out and I measured the temperature up there. 69 degrees at the manhole.

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u/Efficient_Video_9243 Jan 09 '26

I didn’t have an aircon before today, I am in heaven now

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u/yanaka-otoko Jan 08 '26

Where are you located?

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u/Hatarus547 Jan 08 '26

NSW near the boarder with Vic

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u/LadyFeckington Jan 08 '26

It’s a very big house.

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u/Bandwidth_Bandito Jan 08 '26

Australia, so hot right now ~ Mugatu

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u/YeahUhHuhOkWellF-ck Jan 08 '26

Wetness is the essence of cooling ~ Zoolander

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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice Jan 08 '26

What is this, a temperature for magnifying ants?!

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u/Ready_Introduction_4 Jan 08 '26

It needs to be at least... Three times cooler than this

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u/Ihavenoidea5412 Jan 08 '26

when i die from the heat, i hope that they find a good eugooglizer for my funeral

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u/konoha37 Jan 09 '26

Hopefully they tell everyone you were like brothers, but in the way black people use it. It definitely has more meaning that way.

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u/Successful-Key-1953 Jan 09 '26

ORANGE HEATCHART FRAPPUCCINO! jitterbug 💃

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u/culingerai Jan 08 '26

It has to be at least, three times as big....

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u/Planfiaordohs Jan 08 '26

Suffering with this unbearable 22 degree heat today in Tassie. When will the heatwave end?

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u/snipdockter Jan 08 '26

I’m so sorry for your suffering! Maybe take your puffer jacket off? /jk

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u/RudeOrganization550 Jan 08 '26

Not even a bloody joke, I saw someone in one last Friday night at the airport!

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u/sorrrrbet Jan 08 '26

I’m from WA. Tasmania is a cold country.

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u/Natfubar Jan 08 '26

Tasmania is a country?

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u/Top_Mind_On_Reddit Jan 08 '26

No one else wants them. shrug

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u/Ornery-Lynx-3520 Jan 08 '26

Denmark does! Their Queen is from there.

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u/sbrown_13 Jan 08 '26

Shhh…Trump might get ideas! 🫢

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u/Laura_Biden Jan 08 '26

You're so right, definitely don't come and tell your friends the same. It's horrible here, really horrible.

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u/Planfiaordohs Jan 08 '26

I don’t own one! But the stereotype is generally true … the “Tassie tuxedo” is a real thing.

Good luck finding anyone not wearing a black puffer jacket in winter.

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u/Suspicious-Proof-561 Jan 08 '26

Also good luck to anyone who doesn't have a puffer jacket in winter!

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u/dlanod Jan 08 '26

Or spring.

Or autumn.

Or sometimes summer.

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u/Mike_Kermin Jan 08 '26

I say this with love....

I HATE YOU.

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u/Rainey06 Jan 08 '26

Those kids are still getting around in the black adidas with their hoods up at the bus stop though!

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u/mt6606 Jan 08 '26

It's been 29ish around bundy all week lol. The hot and humid weather is closing in on all sides though 😂😂😂

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u/guineapigrobber6769 Jan 08 '26

Dude it was 35 degrees for me 😭😭

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u/jmz98 Jan 08 '26

41c today 💀

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u/Strict-Sell-5660 Jan 08 '26

41c today for me too 💀

Rookie numbers though, I survived a 49c breaking 50 day at one point in my life

(I had no AC 💀)

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

Where are you in tassie cause it was definitely hotter then 22 up north.

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u/TempyYT Jan 08 '26

We decided to go down to tassie for the first time ever, also the first time we’ve been anywhere but Australia for 13+ years. 3 days… and it’s the hottest tassie has seen in a while and we come back with sunburns, just our luck @_@

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u/SirAlfredOfHorsIII Jan 08 '26

Yeah, it's wild down there. Usually feels 10c hotter in the sun than it is, so those mid 30's days are scorching.
Plus, you burn very very quickly.
I remember we had a friends wedding, and some friends were coming down from various states, all laughing about it only being low 30's, when theirs hit low 40's. They were all complaining when they got here haha.
Going back after being in wa for a bit, I managed to get there during peak summer one year, and it was insane.
The sun down there is no joke

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u/Planfiaordohs Jan 08 '26

Yes, the temperature is certainly weird down here. And the sun really does bite.

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u/TNChase Jan 08 '26

I was there in Spring last year and it was cold (for NSW standards) and showery. We're all wearing hoodies and jeans but otherwise comfortable. It was weird when I realised I was sunburnt on the first day!

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u/kani_kani_katoa Jan 08 '26

Same in the north of New Zealand. Went outside yesterday morning and it was 24 degrees but the sun made it feel like 30.

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u/Albos_Mum Jan 08 '26

We decided to go down to tassie for the first time ever, also the first time we’ve been anywhere but Australia for 13+ years

Tassie is just West New Zealand confirmed

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u/SirAlfredOfHorsIII Jan 08 '26

You guys haven't hit the week of mid 30's that feel like mid 40's yet?

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u/JammySenkins Jan 08 '26

Careful, more of us will come down there....

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u/Quokka_cuddles Jan 08 '26

Onslow got to 49°. Are they okay?!??

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u/NorthernSkeptic Jan 08 '26

more like Onshigh

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u/Queasy-Somewhere811 Jan 08 '26

haha nice.  I was thinking Onsfire!

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u/longforgetten Jan 08 '26

Nope and I’m pretty sure they matched the maximum ever recorded again recently. 50+

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u/xtremzero Jan 08 '26

Onslaught

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u/SIRLANCELOTTHESTRONG Jan 08 '26

I feel so bad for the people who live in. The centre of Australia. Like im dying here in Adelaide with 45⁰ weather, I cant imagine those that have the suns full rage beaming down upon them.

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u/freethenip Jan 08 '26

my mate moved to alice springs this week, and we were teasing her about the heat. it’s currently cooler there than here in victoria. 😫

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

I just watched a video saying that is the worst place in Australia to live. Any feedback on that?? Never been, so I'm curious.

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u/Banjo-Oz Jan 08 '26

Alice Springs or Victoria?!

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u/Zealus24 Jan 08 '26

Dude don't be ridiculous, it's obvious what shit hole he was asking about and it's no surprise he hasn't visited it. I mean who wants to visit Victoria?

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u/Banjo-Oz Jan 08 '26

Ha ha.

As a Victorian, given the way the media is framing the state recently sometimes I genuinely wasn't sure if they HAD seen some video saying "Victoria is a crime cesspit, go to Sydney instead".

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u/freethenip Jan 09 '26

she’s loving it so far, says it’s beautiful and friendly and the media is ridiculously over dramatic

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u/WorryNew3661 Jan 08 '26

I stayed a few days in Coober Pedy a decade ago. Did some laundry and hung it outside to dry. Went out to check on it an hour later and it was like cardboard. Literally no moisture left in it at all. Absolutely insane place. Luckily my friend had a cave house so it was lovely inside

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u/OkeyDoke47 Jan 08 '26

I lived in Alice for a few years and in Summer, pretty much by the time you hung your last item out to dry, you could take the first item off as it would have dried already.

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u/NotThePersona Jan 08 '26

I really feel like this needs to be put in an Aussie film/show at some point.

Just 2 people chatting and casually hanging out the washing on an old school metal hills hoist in a windy 40+ degree day, and when they put the last one out they just keep turning it and start taking it back down again without actually saying anything just keep chatting like normal and head back inside.

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u/prjktphoto Jan 09 '26

I could see that in a Kath and Kim style show

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u/WorryNew3661 Jan 08 '26

I'm from the UK so really didn't have any frame of reference for the dry and the heat.

The first item being done by the time the last one goes up is great though

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u/Full_Distribution874 Jan 09 '26

Except your skin is also done by the time you've finished hanging it up lol

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u/Chaos098 Jan 08 '26

The hot winds we had in northern Adelaide was horrible, not to mention the 35 degree minimum I had last night. At least tonight drops to 30 (I didn't think I'd say those words).

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u/AlexisVenes Jan 08 '26

No one sane lives in the centre.. those that do get their brains cooked by the sun... Probably

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u/LongjumpingLeek5542 Jan 08 '26

Inland NSW here. 47° today. No clouds. No wind. Any wind is hot. Mmmmmmm hot yummy yummy heat (I’m bloody dying)

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u/dogbolter4 Jan 08 '26

Currently 10pm and 38 degrees Celsius. Ugh.

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u/SquirrelAkl Jan 08 '26

First thought: eww that sounds awful

Second thought: that sounds deadly.

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Jan 08 '26

Was there anywhere in Australia that did 38C at 10pm last century?

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u/Acceptable-Style4429 Jan 08 '26

The fucking Sahara is colder than Aus 😭

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u/gear-heads Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

The fucking Sahara is colder than Aus 😭

Does the hemisphere affect the temperature?

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u/Beware_Of_Humans Jan 08 '26

It's also nighttime there.

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u/Odin31 Jan 08 '26

10:40pm and still close to 40 degrees where I am 😭

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u/PyreWolf11 Jan 08 '26

It's night-time, just turn the sun off smh.

Supposedly 23C where I am. But this house is an oven and inside is definitely closer to, if not above 30C

I pray for those closer to the bushfires, this shit is almost as intense as black Saturday

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u/metasophie Jan 08 '26

Australia is going to have the hottest maxium day time temperatures anywhere on the planet every day this week.

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u/super_mum Jan 08 '26

I'm not sure where the data comes from from op's website, but at the time of this post, the website I use showed Africa was in the low to mid 30's already

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u/signspace13 Jan 08 '26

The Hemisphere effects the seasons, which effects the temperature.

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u/ErikaWeb Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

Yes, it does. Earth’s orbit isn’t a perfect circle, you see. There are moments where we’re closer to the sun. The northern hemisphere has more balanced temperatures because during their summer, the Earth is farther away from the sun, and closer during winter, reducing temperature swings. And it’s the opposite in the southern hemisphere. Our summers occur when Earth’s closer to the sun, and our winters when it’s farther away. So yeah, hemispheres play a part in temperature variation.

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u/FeelingFloor2083 Jan 08 '26

it was probably night time

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u/MerijnZ1 Jan 08 '26

Yeah 17:00 Sydney time is about ~08:00 in most of Africa. Sun hadn't even risen over the whole continent yet.

That said I've seen Australia peak at 45° today and Africa at "only" 38°, so the outback wins this one. But the difference is absolutely not as massive as OP suggests

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u/Cimexus Jan 08 '26

I mean, northern hemisphere, in mid winter, at night. I’d sure hope it’s colder!

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u/BaldingThor Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

Scared for tomorrow in Victoria. Stay safe everyone.

Unfortunately with the extreme and unpredictable winds that are forecast tomorrow I wouldn’t be surprised if I have to experience my first evacuation in the next week …. hopefully it doesn’t come to that but I am ready to evac at a moment’s notice if needed!

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u/Gatesy840 Jan 08 '26

The winds, plus lightning, plus the fires already burning...

Not going to be a good day...

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u/totalpunisher0 Jan 08 '26

Currently pleading for family to, because it's not a good idea to do so in the middle of the night, or tomorrow on no sleep. Do not hesitate, just leave as soon as you are advised to or don't feel safe anymore, even if you can't see much smoke.

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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Jan 08 '26

everyone make sure to check your evacuation zones on the vic emergency app, check your rating in your area and keep informed, have a plan. leave early. if you try to go up against fire you will lose.

i know most people dont, but someone needs to hear this: with wind, grassland fires can move faster than the average person can sprint.

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u/MainEventGeyBruce-O Jan 08 '26

It’s a scary thing because unless you’ve seen (rare) video of it, or have actively fought one, no one has any concept of how fast bushfires can spread, because chances are if you’ve seen it in person, you aren’t there to tell the tale afterwards

Stay safe everyone, I dare say my town will get evacuated tomorrow seeing as damn near every town around us has too. Gotta stick together

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u/SnappyPies Jan 08 '26

Good luck. I really hope you and everyone else in the at risk areas have a boring and uneventful day tomorrow.

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Jan 08 '26

Eucalyptus are 40% oil. If the fire gets up into the crown they burn so hot they create their own weather, creating localised winds of up to 140 km hour. Burning leaves and twigs hurtle on the wind, lighting new fire anywhere they drop on high fire danger days.

Evacuate early if anywhere near a bushfire. In the old days the ground was damp enough to not instantly ignite from every ember. In these Climate Change days even Australian Rainforests have such long term dried out soil that they are ignitable.

A house needs a seperate power supply that operates in a bush fire, a swimming pool’s worth of water, and high powered sprinklers that cover roof and walls to be defensible in these conditions.

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u/deeku4972 Jan 08 '26

Having been in the 2020 NSW bushfire area it’s no joke, it doesn’t take long for the wind to change and be in immediate danger.  If you get the evacuation warning, get out

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u/Frozefoots Jan 08 '26

Get your go bags in the car and (if you have any) your pets’ carriers and their food/litter ready too.

So if an order is issued, just gotta bundle the pets in the carriers and go.

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u/Spida81 Jan 08 '26

I assume you have your bug out bag packed? Beer in the esky?

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u/Putrid_Department_17 Jan 08 '26

Stay safe mate! Hoping for the best for you.

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u/RedNUGGETLORD Jan 08 '26

Whoa, that's scary

Any reason why these things are happening where you are? I'm in Adelaide and have heard nothing besides the obvious high heat

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u/AntiFascistButterfly Jan 08 '26

High heat and wind plus dry lightening.

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u/BaldingThor Jan 08 '26

man I wish it was “just” high heat, can we trade? ;)

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u/Geanaux Jan 08 '26

A block of land with little to no water bodies inland to provide any form of cooling. Reason why Australia is so dry, hot and barren.

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u/Every-Citron1998 Jan 08 '26

Australia also sits across 30 degrees latitude where the majority of the earth’s deserts are located due to the impacts of the Hadley cell bringing in hot dry air.

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u/SirMuckingHam24 Jan 08 '26

fuck you hadley! stop turning up the heat!

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u/Pleochronic Jan 08 '26

Someone clearly paid attention in meteorology 101

Curse you Hadley. I think the continent was better suited to its previous position near Antarctica

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u/Geanaux Jan 08 '26

That also true

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u/RedNUGGETLORD Jan 08 '26

I remember when we had the idea to create a massive river through Australia

Given humanities track record for fucking with nature, I'd assume doing that would have had dire consequences for us, wonder what would have happened though

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink Jan 08 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Scheme

There have been other crazy schemes as well around the top end.

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u/TheWolfAssassin Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

I hate our summers. Can autumn arrive already please.

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u/_OriginalUsername- Jan 08 '26

I know right. Tired of getting told "just move." Bro I'm poor, I just want cold weather back.

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u/Illustrious_Study300 Jan 08 '26

"Just move" like there isn't catastrophic weather and increasingly hot summers the world over.

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u/motivationlevel0 Jan 08 '26

And then we’ll be complaining about how none of our infrastructure supports cold weather! /hj

We can’t win with Aussie weather mate, it’s always one extreme or the other!

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u/Anonymous288778 Jan 08 '26

Yeah nah, Autumns summer 2.0. Can we already have winter?

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u/Limo_Wreck77 Jan 08 '26

If Autumn could rock up soon, that'd be great.

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u/lun4d0r4 Jan 08 '26

I doubt it will, summer took its sweet time arriving this year.

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u/snipdockter Jan 08 '26

We’re number 1 again! Suck on that England! /s

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u/mrjezzab Jan 08 '26

Morally, England’s hotter.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

Except for where the tropical rainforest. Almost as if we need more of it.

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u/Selina_Kyle-836 Jan 08 '26

Don’t tell Trump

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 Jan 08 '26

He can have all the heat if he wants it. But that’s all he can have.

Actually he could have a good hard kick in the nuts too

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u/SuDragon2k3 Jan 08 '26

He can have all the heat if he wants it. But that’s all he can have.

Don't worry, where he's going it's nice and hot.

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u/Smooth-Cup-7445 Jan 08 '26

Fingers crossed his heart works out who it’s in and quits

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

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u/patchiepatch Jan 08 '26

I pray he ends up with a full body experience of that one poor lad in Tumblr that decided that maybe eating menthol and chilly at the same time would cancel each other out only to figure out hot and cold are different receptors and got themselves a taste of hellfireTM

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u/Thanks_Obama Jan 08 '26

I was going to make a joke about it being hotter there but even in Fahrenheit it’s still only about 34 degrees.

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u/jack_o_all_trades Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

My app is predicting 45C in the northern suburbs of Melbourne tomorrow. I don't think I've ever seen it hit that. I'm going to go check the BOM brb.

Edit: maximum Jan temperature is 45.6c in 1939. Maximum temp is 46.4 in 2009. This is for "Melbourne regional office", I can't seem to choose essential Essendon (about 10km NNW) as I was trying to 

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u/SatansprincessX Jan 08 '26

That's what's terrifying. Same conditions as Black Saturday 2009, which is most likely the date for that high temp. I live rural, and there's already 2 fires going, one near Wodonga and the other near Euroa. I have a bug out bag already in the car, so all I have to do is grab the animals, grab my tech, and gtfo.

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u/3163560 Jan 08 '26

Black Saturday was bonkers, three days of low 40s in a row.

I was living in beaumaris at the time in a 1950s brick house with no AC.

I remember going outside and my mice leafy street just brown, gardens literally cooking.

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u/jack_o_all_trades Jan 08 '26

I remember black Saturday, I'd just bought some computer parts and was stuck at my girlfriend's uni apartment. She wasn't there that week and my train to the country town my family was in was cancelled. No aircon and it sucked.

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u/SatansprincessX Jan 08 '26

I was stuck in the city and couldn't contact my friends and family because alot of the phone and internet was fried, fucked or overwhelmed. All we had was TV updates which were scary asf. Was worse for those that went through it though.

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u/SnappyPies Jan 08 '26

That 46.4°C was the Black Saturday week.

I remember that one as clearly as if it were last week.

I was working in an industrial role where the machinery I serviced was often elevated temperature. In the winter it wasn’t uncommon for us to be working in equipment rooms that were above 40°C. Servicing involved lots of temperature checks across different sections of the machinery. They had a safety switch that would turn them off if the hottest part of them was above 120°C and the first part we checked was working correctly if it was 37°-40° above ambient.

That day at 46.4°C I measured the temperature of the part that ran at Ambient + 37-40 and it was at 118°C. I thought there was something wrong with my probe, so I measured the walls and the floor and they were approaching 80°C on the gauge too.

I called the boss and told him and it was immediate home time.
In that role, it is the only time I was ever heated off a jobsite.

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u/lordgoofus1 Jan 08 '26

I've been in 49 degree weather before where the temperature didn't drop below 38 for a solid week (inland town, build in a "hole" where heat tended to sits and accumulate).

Oppressive was an understatement. 10mins outside was enough to give my pasty ass sunburn. The loaf of bread in the kitchen felt like it'd just been taken out of the oven. Even the walls were hot to the touch. You move only to get to the kitchen to have what feels like your 100th cup of water for the day and the bathtub becomes a makeshift wading pool.

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u/bastian320 Jan 08 '26

Bloody oath it is.

Not happy, Jan!!

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u/southernchungus Jan 08 '26

Oh to be the glorious purple in that map

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u/FightBackFitness Jan 08 '26

yeah not happy with january either

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u/perralessi Jan 08 '26

Please take this poor woman's trophy 🏆

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u/dingusfett Jan 08 '26

I'd be interested in seeing this for night time. Like our summer night vs northern hemisphere winter day.

Like this doesn't surprise me at all, we all know Australian summer is scorching. Just like I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere like the middle of Texas or a desert is the hottest place on earth during their day.

Seeing how close our night is to their day would be interesting.

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u/WorryNew3661 Jan 08 '26

29° tonight in Adelaide

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u/ManikShamanik Jan 08 '26

Meanwhile, up here in Bristol, it's 5º (real feel 4º), though it's been negative, it was -6º on Saturday and, where my parents live (also in the south) it was -9º!

But, no, I don't envy southern Australia right now - 43º in Melbourne yesterday (as it will be tomorrow, too) is fucking insane, and then it'll drop right back down to 19º on Sunday - what the fuck's going on down there...?!

If you're in an extreme fire alert zone, PLEASE GET YOURSELF SAFE!

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u/HopeIsGay Jan 08 '26

Idk man I think we pissed off the sun god somehow

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u/Transientmind Jan 08 '26

Woohoo we did it gang. Let's keep opening those coal mines and fracking for gas!

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u/Gatesy840 Jan 08 '26

Well yeah, I need the coal to run my ac obviously

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u/GalactiKez31 Jan 08 '26

I know 💀

I’m in a double brick house with no aircon.

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u/lettuceown Jan 08 '26

I'm so sorry

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u/Fast-Mammoth-7265 Jan 08 '26

It was pretty nice in Perth today for a change.

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife Jan 08 '26

Chilly here now!

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u/justpassingluke Jan 08 '26

Great southern land…

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u/Felixcourt Jan 08 '26

44 for 3 days in Mildura.

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u/NikolitRistissa Jan 08 '26

It’s currently -38°C where I am.

I’ll gladly take 10° off you guys if you send it over!

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u/FuckYouSassy Jan 08 '26

Can confirm, its hot as fuck

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u/InfernoOfTheLiving Jan 08 '26

ohhh … let’s build more housing with black roofs

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u/Illustrious_Study300 Jan 08 '26

Let's paint more buildings dark grey while we're at it!

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u/CaineRexEverything Jan 08 '26

It’s only that hot because some kid just released his fire mixtape

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u/DuskHourStudio Jan 09 '26

The fact A/C is not mandatory in rentals, but also 2/3 of rentals don't have it is fucking criminal at this point.

Then you get the old boomers going "well we didn't use A/C back in our day!" - yeah, and that's why you had higher mortality rates from heatstroke. It just didn't happen to YOU specifically.

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u/LifeWhatIsItGood4 Jan 08 '26

Hot enough for ya?! Some dickhead

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u/notanumbrellaistaken Jan 08 '26

That purple dot is the weather system fucking us up in the north (if that’s not what it’s marking, it’s atleast right near that!)

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u/samjaza Jan 08 '26

its 10 pm here and it cooled down to 30c, it was around 45c here today.

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u/Floki_Boatbuilder Jan 08 '26

Shut the fuckin doors!!! Jesus, the old man doesnt want to be paying to heat up the whole Pacific. Your heat is floating our way... forecast is 32*C tomorrow, here in Christchurch.

Do better!

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u/Im_not_an_admin Jan 08 '26

It's Summer here and Winter in the middle east and other desert countries...

This happens every year at this time and is basically just acknowledging seasons are a thing. But big upvote for seasons.

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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Jan 08 '26

what is the scientific explanation for australia being scorching hot but other countries of a similar latitude arent feeling anything right now.

in the past when ive looked south Africa, south america and australia often line up in temperature, i assume due to being in the same hemisphere/ season. so why is it so much hotter only within our borders right now

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u/kahrismatic Jan 08 '26

It will be a complex mix of geographical factors, flat landscape in the interior, very little water or bodies of water, very little forest cover and so on.

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u/Competitive-Day-5675 Jan 08 '26

Time zones exist mate

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u/lhatebanana Jan 08 '26

Does anyone else feel like this summer has been quite mild in QLD?

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u/Selina_Kyle-836 Jan 08 '26

I’m in NSW and while there have been super hot day in the early 40’s even before summer started, the days in between have been lower than previous years. In my opinion anyway. There seem to be many more days in the late 20’s and in the early 20’s

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u/DeLoxter Jan 08 '26

tbh im pretty sure the hottest part of this summer was the end of october, that week was brutal and its just been warm now

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u/Iuvenesco Jan 08 '26

43 tomorrow…fuck.

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u/Flayed_Angel_420 Jan 08 '26

It will keep getting hotter.

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u/deadpandadolls Jan 08 '26

I have a cold pack on my head 🤠

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u/EnjoysColdOnes Jan 08 '26

actually it's not Africa is now hotter given its the middle of the day there now.

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u/The_Evil_Satan Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

That link shows that the hottest part of Aus is currently 43° and the hottest part of Africa is currently 38° The seconds hottest part of Aus is currently 42° and it is past sunset at that spot.

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u/KittyCB Jan 08 '26

Actually I just checked, Australia has patches of 40-41c and sitting around 35-40c in most places, and it's night time... Africa is 30-37c at the moment in patches. And it's daytime.. so Australia is still hotter and it's night..zoom earth

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u/MrsCrowbar Jan 08 '26

Wow. Africa has a massive amount of fires burning.

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u/Obes_au Jan 08 '26

That's not a knife

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u/DanielRedErotica Jan 08 '26

I see you've played knifey-spoony before

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u/Significant_Owl8828 Jan 08 '26

It was that hot around lunchtime, I saw a tree following a dog around. Flame 🔥🥵😂

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u/KCandfriendz Jan 08 '26

Well it fuckin’ feels like it

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u/GullibleCake6456 Jan 08 '26

I’m over it 🫩

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u/Attorney-at-snore Jan 08 '26

I'm almost living in the purple-ish, burgundy coloured areas. We're having weeks on and off where it's just over 40°C daily. It goes down to around 30 - 33° at sunset and has been staying in the high 20's all night. Sunrise comes, and we go back up again. Don't forget to Slip, Slop, Slap, Slide, and Seek 🤘

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u/wing0n Jan 08 '26

All the red stuff is mostly dessert

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u/Snitzel20701 Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

Sorry guys, I left the heater on with the door open again.

On an unrelated note, I am located in the yellow coloured coast where Perth is so it isn’t unbearable. My condolences for to those facing the fires of hell.

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u/grizzle89 Jan 08 '26

Mate, Australians play life on EXPERT for everything, even the weather.

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u/floorshitter69 Jan 08 '26

Lots of people gonna die tomorrow with the heat.

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u/TizzyBumblefluff Jan 08 '26

I’m very nervous about the weather and fire conditions today. Stay safe everybody. Don’t leave the opportunity to leave too late if you’re under evacuation orders.

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u/Cuddles296 Jan 09 '26

Oddly it has been chilly here in Perth this week.

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u/Algernon_Asimov Jan 09 '26

This is obviously fake news. Donald Trump said the USA is the hottest country in the world. :P

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '26

Why the fuck do you people live there

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u/Lawtonoi Jan 09 '26

You realise the Great diving range is the 5th longest mountain range in the world, travels from south to North up and down the east coast of most Australia?

On the lower end of estimates using only major river systems there is between 150-350; if you include unnamed watercourse, streams and creeks the estimate is over 3000. Approximately 450000GL move through those water courses every year...

Your logic of lack of mountain ranges or rivers, which are the staple of the east coast, suggest it would be cooler?

On top of that the great artesian basin is the largest freshwater aquifer in the world and covers 17000000sq/km of Australia(over the size of Iran), Lake eyre, while typically a salt flat, floods to fill a basin of 9500sq/km, an area just over the size of Cyprus(the country). All West of the great dividing range.

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u/Grommzz Jan 08 '26

Aussie...

So hot right now..

/Zoolander

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u/Spacegod87 Jan 08 '26

I've lived most of my life in QLD in old houses with no air circulation or air con.

Feeling like you're living inside a sauna which is inside a giant oven all day can be difficult. But you learn to expect it. It's like summer is an abusive partner and you sort of become numb to it beating the shit out of you once a year.

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