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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May

Red centre heat could cause temperature records to tumble across Australia in coming days

Sydney cherry blossom festival at Auburn Botanic Gardens.
Sydney cherry blossom festival at Auburn Botanic Gardens. The NSW capital reached 19 degrees on Monday. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Potentially record-breaking winter heat in Australia’s centre will carry unseasonably warm temperatures across the country this weekend and into the next week, meteorologists predict.

Temperatures across most of the country except the very far west will sit 4C to 7C above average, including most urban centres in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, said Angus Hines, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology.

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