00:00There's very high temperatures across the north, as you mentioned some places are pushing
00:06up beyond 40 degrees and we do have a heat wave warning across the top end.
00:10But for the south east this weekend will be the warmest weekend since autumn really, or
00:15since the other side of winter.
00:17For instance Adelaide is going to have a top of 29 degrees both today and tomorrow.
00:22For Melbourne today top of 25, tomorrow top 28, even down in Hobart getting up to 25 degrees.
00:29So these temperatures are 5 to 8 degrees above the October average, but there's even warmer
00:35temperatures as we head further inland.
00:38But with those higher temperatures we're also bringing in some wind.
00:41As you mentioned it's the winds that are dragging that heat down from the interior over the
00:46south east and tomorrow Sunday is going to be particularly windy and those strong winds
00:51combining with the warmth and the heat will elevate fire dangers.
00:54So they're expected to peak across northwestern Victoria in the Mallee district with fire
00:59weather warnings likely to be issued, but even reaching up to high across Tasmania over
01:05the weekend as well.
01:06And there's also a risk for some damaging wind gusts with these gusty northwesterly winds across
01:12elevated parts of Victoria and even potentially the exposed coast during Sunday and across Tasmania,
01:18but they'll ease later on Sunday by Monday.
01:22We were told I know to expect a bit of a wet spring, so is the hot weather expected to
01:26last?
01:27Look, across the south east it's expected to last until another cold front sweeps that
01:32heat away early next week.
01:35There's been some very hot weather throughout southern parts of WA, but they've got a cold
01:40front with a cloud band pushing across this weekend, bringing some fairly widespread rain
01:45to central and southern parts of WA.
01:49So at the moment we're still in that sort of transition season, transitioning from the
01:53colder temperatures of winter until eventually those more persistent warmer temperatures of
01:57summer.
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