This is reported by the Air Force.
Today, on the seventh of January in the city thermometers showed - 47.7 degrees Celsius. The last time the temperature record in the city was established in 1939, when the temperature was 49 degrees Celsius. Weather forecasters and climatologists say that this heat is caused by climate change, which over the past 20 years on the continent has become increasingly extreme. Rescuers have already started taking measures to prevent forest fires that are traditional for the country, which usually cover forests in hot summer seasons.
The Australians were warned in September about the threat of future fires due to extremely dry weather.
As reported in "URA-Inform", recently in Australia the gas transit system was burning.