00:00We saw many parts of sort of western and south-western Queensland seeing those temperatures
00:0710, 12, 14 degrees above average for multiple days in a row.
00:11That heat was really sort of lingering, stagnating in those areas and that's why we ended up
00:17seeing so many records broken, including, as was just mentioned, the state records for
00:22October.
00:2349.1 degrees at Birdsville, 44.9 degrees at Wynaring in New South Wales, so really significantly
00:32warm conditions.
00:33Yeah, 49 degrees in October, that's pretty brutal.
00:36It does look like there's a bit of a reprieve in New South Wales this weekend at least, perhaps
00:40Victoria, but northern Australia still looking pretty warm.
00:44What can we expect in the coming days?
00:45Yeah, as you say, warm conditions continuing over the next few days across much of Queensland,
00:50the Northern Territory, northern parts of Western Australia too.
00:53We've got those severe heatwave conditions across sort of northern and central parts of
00:58Queensland pushing back across northern parts of the NT.
01:02Extreme heatwaves actually coming through in pockets as well.
01:04There will be a little bit of a reprieve for much of Queensland around the middle of the
01:08week.
01:09Temperatures coming back to close to average, but it'll be fairly short-lived.
01:13The next burst of heat is already brewing in the west by midweek, likely to reach Queensland
01:17again by the end of this coming week.
01:20I was going to ask you about that.
01:21We've been talking a lot about the east and records broken in the southeast, the north
01:25looking pretty warm.
01:26What about the west at the moment?
01:27How's that looking?
01:28So, the west is looking warm in northern parts of Western Australia, but across those
01:33interior areas, it's storms that are going to be the story for today, pushing into South
01:37Australia today as well.
01:38We've got broad areas of potentially severe thunderstorms through much of western South
01:43Australia, pushing down to the Air Peninsula, but spilling back into the interior of WA
01:47today.
01:48So, those severe storms could bring the damaging wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and
01:52large hail.
01:53In fact, we could even see giant-sized hail, so that's bigger than five centimetres in diameter
01:57across parts of Western South Australia.
01:59This is relevant for the southeast as well, as this stormy weather will shift into Victoria,
02:04parts of New South Wales tomorrow on Sunday.
02:07So, it's definitely a weekend to keep an eye on those storms.
02:10Before I let you go, Miriam, it's hard to keep track of what's going on here, because
02:13there was talk, let's say a couple of months ago, about a wet spring and an abnormally wet
02:18summer ahead.
02:20Is that still the case, or have things changed?
02:24I'm hearing that things might have changed a bit.
02:26Look, looking at the long-range forecast on the Bureau's website, we are still expecting
02:32a sort of reasonably high chance of seeing above-average rainfall through lots of eastern
02:37and central Australia as we go into November.
02:39The sort of signal for the next couple of weeks is a little bit closer to average, which
02:43means not likely to see either above-average or below-average necessarily.
02:48So, November is still looking potentially wetter for the eastern and central parts, but we
02:53will have to see how it plays out.
02:55Okay, thank you as always for joining us, Miriam.
02:57Appreciate your time.
02:58No problem.
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