Temperatures are soaring in parts of Australia this week. Heatwave warnings are in place for large parts of Queensland and the northern territory -- with the northern half of the country tipped to be one of the hottest places in the world.
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00:00We are certainly seeing those heatwave conditions across the northern parts of Australia, so
00:06low to severe intensity heatwaves through inland and western Queensland, the Northern
00:11Territory and northern parts of Western Australia.
00:14But today we're also seeing that heat spilling down into South Australia ahead of a gusty
00:18change that's due to move through later.
00:21Now that means we're going to see temperatures such as 43 degrees at Oodnadatta today, 41
00:26degrees at Coober Pedy and Roxby Downs, up to 30 degrees in Adelaide itself, as that
00:31heat really intensifies ahead of this system.
00:33Those temperatures are anywhere between 8 and 14 degrees above the October average,
00:39depending on where you are.
00:40Across northern parts of Australia, those temperatures are more like 2 to 8 degrees
00:45above average.
00:46The heatwave warnings are really triggered by the persistent heat in the north.
00:50So as the week goes on, we're going to see that gusty change that I mentioned pushing
00:54through South Australia and then across Tasmania and Victoria tomorrow.
00:58It'll gradually move through New South Wales on Thursday and southern Queensland later
01:02in the week.
01:03That means we're going to see that peak of temperatures moving eastwards over the next
01:06few days.
01:07For tomorrow, it'll shift from South Australia down to Victoria and inland New South Wales
01:12with temperatures pushing up into the high 30s or low 40s.
01:16Melbourne is heading for a top of 33 degrees tomorrow.
01:19And as we go into Thursday and Friday, that heat will push up the east coast, impacting
01:23Sydney, the northern parts of the New South Wales coast, and of course, southeast Queensland.
01:27We've got a lot of heat sitting over the Australian continent at the moment.
01:31It's been lingering and stagnating for a number of weeks already.
01:35That's why we've already seen these heatwave conditions across the north for quite some
01:38time.
01:39At the moment, though, we're seeing this frontal system, this change moving across the south,
01:44and it is dragging down some of that heat from the north and sort of directing it across
01:50South Australia and the southeast over the next two days.