BOM has issued an extreme heatwave warning for parts of the state

Large parts of Queensland remain in the grip of a heatwave with warnings in place for the next few days.

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00:00Temperatures in the 40s are part and parcel with an outback summer, but it still remains

00:07a popular topic of conversation.

00:09Yesterday, Birdsville reached 46.5 degrees and Longreach here in central western Queensland

00:15is set to get to 46 degrees tomorrow.

00:18But we haven't actually broken any temperature records for January, so believe it or not

00:21it has been hotter out here.

00:23And it is a dry heat versus a humid heat that you get on the east coast of Queensland where

00:28heatwave conditions are persisting as well and the Bureau of Meteorology says some places

00:34are experiencing temperatures between 4 and 10 degrees above average.

00:39The heat also caused issues in southeast Queensland and Brisbane, upsetting the energy grid and

00:45causing power outages to more than 13,000 homes and properties.

00:50Energex says while mostly that has been all restored, with the heat set to continue for

00:55the next couple of days, there could be more power outages to come and to be prepared.