Record temperature of 50.7ºC recorded in Australia
Record temperature of 50.7ºC recorded in Australia, first time in 62 years, the local sources report.
“If confirmed, today’s 50.7ºC at Onslow Airport in WA was the equal highest temperature on record in the Southern Hemisphere,” stated meteorologist Ben Domensino on Twitter.
Australia, a country where extreme temperatures are frequent during the summer, had previously recorded the temperature of 50.7 degrees in the remote town of Oodnadatta, in the centre of the country, 62 years ago.
Experts from the Western Australia Office of the Bureau of Meteorology have spent years warning that Australia will suffer from more and more extreme heat and forest fires as a consequence of climate change, along with rising water levels, greater risks of floods and the acidification of the oceans.