Australian town hits record high temperature of 50.7C
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A remote town in Western Australia has equalled the country's hottest day on
record, reporting a scorching 50.7 degrees Celsius (123.26 degrees
Fahrenheit), the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Such temperatures could become commonplace in Australia due to global warming,
the country's Climate Council warned.
The coastal town of Onslow hit the blistering high on Thursday afternoon.
"NEW Western Australian maximum temperature record and equal National
temperature record!" the state's Bureau of Meteorology posted on Twitter.
Ouch...
— Kuy Cobain (@Alifindo2) January 14, 2022
Western Australia 🇦🇺 is scorching right now with temperatures hitting a staggering +50.7°C (123°F).
This ties the highest ever temperature measured in the Southern Hemisphere (and equals the Australian all-time record from 1960). #heatwave #australia pic.twitter.com/DrEYmq4QNZ
"Onslow reached an unprecedented - 50.7C which is a WA record and equals
Australia's hottest day set 62 years ago in Oodnadatta SA."
The country last recorded a temperature of 50.7C on January 2, 1960 at South
Australia's Oodnadatta Airport, according to the bureau's website.
Climate Council research director Dr Martin Rice said the record was "part of
a long-term warming trend driven by the burning of coal, oil and gas".
He said extreme temperatures were already having "deadly catastrophic
consequences" in Australia.
Australia has provisionally just had its joint hottest day on record 🌡️🥵
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) January 13, 2022
With 50.7°C in Western Australia, it also matches the highest recorded temperature in the Southern Hemisphere 🌏 (joint from 1960). pic.twitter.com/W4DBUiUcUd
"Heatwaves are the silent killer in Australia, they cause more deaths than any
other extreme weather events," he said.
Australia has experienced a summer with bushfires in the country's west and
deadly flooding on its eastern coast.
Rice said that, without a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, such record
temperatures could become commonplace in Australia.
"In Sydney and Melbourne, we will see 50-degree summer days by 2030," he said.
The Bureau of Meteorology is expected to confirm the record officially on
Friday afternoon after quality control checks are completed.
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