We’ve started to feel the more traditional effects of the fall season here in the state of Florida, thankfully as a much-needed reprieve from tropical rains and downpours continues.
However, another corner of the world has managed to catch the heat wave train, and is now setting records despite pleasant conditions finally overtaking much of the southeast U.S.
Looking ahead for the rest of the month, towards Halloween night, we should remain in somewhat below average temperatures for the next few weeks which is AMAZING news leading up to the big day. (Copyright WKMG 2025)
As we rotate further away from summer and deeper into the autumn season, the southern hemisphere begins their transition into spring and eventually their own summer as we move into winter.
Because of this, the heat begins to crank. It’s definitely done so in spectacular fashion.
October heat records have been broken in several states across Australia in recent days, with some areas seeing the absolute hottest temperatures ever recorded for this month specifically.
For example, according to their Bureau of Meteorology, the Queensland Outback town of Birdsville set a record this past Tuesday reaching 46.1 degrees Celsius. This is the first occurrence ever during the month of October.
If you’re unfamiliar with the conversion between Celsius and Fahrenheit, 46.1 degrees comes in at 114.98! Thankfully, we’d never reached an actual air temperature of that extent during our previous summer months. While our “feels like” temp may have met or exceeded that threshold, we can’t say we ever observed an ambient air temperature of that magnitude.
Across the continent temps quickly climb into the triple digits during the warmest part of their daytime (note the difference in time, it would be mid-afternoon there while we’re in our early morning hours) (Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.)
Which is excellent news to say the least.
Bourke airport in NSW saw 44.8C or approximately 112 degrees Fahrenheit this past Tuesday as well, another October record for them.
Just imagine what the “feels like” temperature would be like around here, once you’ve factored in all the usual tropical humidity we have sitting on top of us if our physical air temperature made it 110 or beyond!
While it keeps the feels like temps fairly tame, this means folks out in Australia will feel the true extent of 110-115 degree air temperatures thanks to a lacking of relative humidity (Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.)
Some of the suburbs housed in Sydney, Australia, were forecast to climb into the 40C threshold the rest of the week. Now, a lot of these locations have already established new records during this ongoing heat event.
To put a bit more perspective out there for you, mind you this is only the introduction to the southern hemisphere spring. Once we begin our winter time up here in the U.S., they’ll begin the full transition to summer, where temperatures could exceed what they’ve already seen so early on.
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