With over 41 degrees, Australia records record winter temperatures

The mercury reached 41.6°C in part of the country’s northwest coast, the Australian Meteorological Centre announced.

A particularly warm winter. Australia recorded record winter temperatures on Monday, August 26, with the mercury reaching 41.6°C in part of the northwest coast of the country, the Australian Meteorological Center announced. This temperature exceeded the previous record by 0.4°C and was recorded in the Yampi Sound military camp at 3:37 p.m. local time, the same source said.

Although the record is “provisionally confirmed”scientists need to make sure it is not the result of a local anomaly before it officially enters the record books. The previous record of 41.2°C was set in August 2020 in West Roebuck (north-west). Winter in Australia runs from June to August.

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