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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: chartseer who wrote (164038)1/6/2014 10:53:34 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) of 224744
 
Australian Heatwave temperatures climb towards 50C at start of 2014

With substantial heat in the continental centre, the first days of 2014 saw temperatures climb towards 50C in western Queensland, western NSW, South Australia and parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

See this video report from the Guardian (3 January 2013) of bushfires on North Stradbroke Island in south east Queensland, and temperatures hitting 54C at Oodnadatta in South Australia.

On Saturday temperatures in Brisbane peaked at 41 degrees Celsius. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Pradeep Singh said that Cooler sea breezes worked against the hot westerlies blowing in the from the interior keeping temperatures down below the January record of 43.2C.

indymedia.org.au
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