Beachgoers crowd Sydney’s Bondi Beach yesterday during a heatwave that hit Australia’s largest city. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology recorded temperatures over 40° C yesterday, with the possibility of breaking the November record of 41.8° set in 1982.
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Sydney
Temperatures around Sydney hit 41° Celsius yesterday as parts of the Australian coast went on full alert for bushfires.
Australia’s biggest city experienced its hottest three-day spell in 79 years, said according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Passengers arriving at Sydney airport at lunchtime were hit with 42.8° C while people flocked to the beaches in 41° C, the bureau said.
Some towns further inland passed 44° C.
The heatwave is leading to greater risk of bushfires.
Four people died in bushfires on the south coast of Western Australia earlier this week.
The New South Wales government warned yesterday that heatwaves over 40° C would happen more often and last longer in the future.
There would be 10 more heatwave days per year by 2030 and 33 more heatwave days in the north of the state by 2070, the state’s environment department projected in a new report.
