Record-breaking heat is set to scorch Australia’s southeast, prompting urgent heatwave warnings for Australia Day.<\/p>\n
Victorians are sweating through what could be the state’s most severe heatwave in nearly two decades, while South Australia’s capital readies for potentially its hottest Australia Day on record.<\/p>\n
Melbourne will enjoy some reprieve on Monday, with a forecast top of 30C, before temperatures surge back into the low 40s from Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Towns across Victoria’s north face the prospect of seven consecutive days above 40C, with tops of 47C in Swan Hill and Mildura forecast for Monday.<\/p>\n
The state could record its hottest day ever on Tuesday, as temperatures edge towards 50C.<\/p>\n
The northern town of Ouyen is forecast to hit 49C, with authorities likening conditions to those seen during the Black Summer of 2009.<\/p>\n
“This is a very serious set of weather conditions,” Emergency Management Commissioner Tim Wiebusch said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“We haven’t seen heatwave conditions like this in Victoria for almost 20 years.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, extreme heat will blanket much of South Australia, including in Adelaide, which is set to reach a maximum of 45C in the mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n
If that peak is reached, it would mark the city’s hottest Australia Day on record, Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Jonathan How said.<\/p>\n
The scorching temperatures are being driven by northerly winds, funnelling blistering inland heat towards coastal areas.<\/p>\n
Temperatures climbed above 48C in Port Augusta and Tarcoola on Saturday, before easing slightly on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking heat is set to scorch Australia’s southeast, prompting urgent heatwave warnings for Australia Day. Victorians are sweating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-252887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}