Hottest August Temperature In Sydney Since 1995 (Reminder - It's Late Winter Down There)

Sydney has recorded its hottest August day since 1995 as parts of Australia swelter through a warm and windy end to winter, and what is almost certain to be the country’s hottest August on record. The city’s official weather station at Observatory Hill recorded a maximum of 30.3C at 2.48pm. The city’s overall record August temperature set in 1995 was 31.3C. Hot and windy conditions were forecast for Sydney on Friday and temperatures in the mid-20s forecast for the weekend.

Brisbane reached a high of 29.8C at midday, with higher temperatures of 32C predicted on Saturday, 34C on Sunday and Monday. Miriam Bradbury, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said these temperatures were well above the city’s August average of about 23C.

Preliminary August records have already been broken in Queensland on Friday with Longreach recording 37.7C, Birdsville 39.5C and Mount Isa airport 36.6C, as well as in New South Wales, with Bourke reaching 36.9C and Sydney airport 31.6C.

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The bureau’s preliminary results for winter indicated Australia’s mean temperature was about 1.5C above the 1961 to 1990 winter average. “Despite some typically cool winter temperatures at times on the east coast, winter has been warmer than usual across the country, with August on track to be Australia’s warmest August on record,” the bureau said. It is forecasting above-average heat to continue for most of Australia throughout spring, as well as above-average rainfall for much of the east coast.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/weather-forecast-sydney-brisbane-melbourne-temperature-winds-heat-bom