'Unusual' heatwave sets in across northern Australia

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Temperatures across the Top End are set to soar, as the Bureau of Meteorology predicts a severe heatwave is here to stay. And it has one heat expert warning about the potentially serious effects on people's health.

Temperatures across the Top End are set to soar, with the Bureau of Meteorology predicting a severe heatwave is here to stay.Temperatures in the NT township of Katherine have been 5C above the November averageAfter sticking out a sweaty weekend, with temperatures climbing up and over 40 degrees Celsius across various parts of the Top End, there appears to be no relief in sight and no concrete signs of any big wet season storms.

Dan Stephenson said he and his team would need to look at working different hours if Darwin continued to warm up. "There have been occasions where we've gone, righto that's it. It's pretty rare, you do need to sort of stick through it a little bit."I've seen quite a bit of young workers, tradesmen or new apprentices come up from down south, they can get the effects of it really quickly.The data comes as

 

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Been living in the Northern parts of Australia for 20 years. It has always been blistering at the start of November, always around Melbourne cup day. Then tapers off to its normal hot.

Heat? In Northern Australia? Crazy! next it will be snowing in the snowy mountains. Surely the only answer to this problem is global Marxism.

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Some experts have described this phenomenon as summer.

ABC you left out the key word. 'little' unusual to see temperatures getting this high at this time of year.

Well, at least it's not 'Unprecedented' 😆

Oh no............Must be climate change.

Well likely ‘new normal’ heatwave

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