BoM says October will be hottest ever for Queensland and NT as heat records tumble

This month is going to be the third warmest October on record for the whole of Australia, the BoM says. Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

Queensland and the Northern Territory are on track for their warmest October on record against “every measure”, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Across the country it had been a “pretty unusual month”, a senior climatologist at the BoM, Hugh McDowell, said.