Severe to Extreme heatwave conditions over much of central Western Australia

A heatwave has remained over central Western Australia this week and there is no reprieve just yet.

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00:00An ongoing heat wave around Western Australia through the week so far.

00:05A couple of days ago we actually saw temperature clock over 49 degrees at the Gascoyne Junction.

00:10Yesterday the top temperatures were about 46.5 degrees around Telfer but broadly speaking

00:16lots of places between 40 and 45 throughout interior and western parts of the state.

00:22And that's the same again today.

00:23Many places could be between 5 and 15 degrees warmer than their average for the time of

00:28year and this includes places that have a pretty high summer average that are warm areas

00:32and that means once again we're going to see locations clock in in the mid and potentially

00:37upper 40s through central parts of WA today.

00:40Not quite that hot on the coastline, we're likely to be in the mid to upper 30s for most

00:45people on the west coast and probably the high 20s to low 30s on the south coast.

00:49In Western Australia we are talking about an Australian summer so every year, every

00:53summer they do see these bursts of heat, they do see heatwave conditions out there and they

00:57do see really, really warm to hot temperatures at times every summer.

01:01However what we're seeing at the moment is a prolonged heatwave and it's coming on the

01:05back of other prolonged heatwaves over the recent months so it's almost one leading into

01:10the next, leading into the next so it's really a prolonged hot spell with very little respite,

01:15not just respite in terms of rainfall but very little respite in terms of cooler weather

01:19before it bounces back up to those very, very hot days.

01:22So it has been an unusually hot prolonged spell of heat and it's likely to shake out

01:27as a very warm summer when it's all said and done.