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In Marble Bar, a town known as the hottest place in Australia, residents celebrated the New Year in temperatures around 50 degrees.
AUSTRALIA – Extreme temperatures spoil the party. In Marble Bar, a town known as the hottest place in Australia, residents celebrated the New Year in temperatures approaching 50 degrees. Suffocating. This weekend of December 30th and 31st, the entire country is also affected by a severe heat wave.
The mercury in the remote towns of Marble Bar and Roebourne in Western Australia topped 49 degrees this weekend. as you can see in the tweets below. Unfortunately, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, these extreme temperatures are expected to last for at least six days.
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As The Guardian reminds us, these readings coincide with the 100th anniversary of the record heatwave that made Marble Bar famous in the summer of 1923-1924, when the resort recorded the longest daily streak in the world. over 37.8°C.
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The British daily also interviewed residents of Marble Bar to find out how they celebrated the New Year under the impostor. Most of them said they spent the day keeping cool and caring for their pets. Many people also left the city on New Year's Day.
“There definitely won’t be any fireworks,” complains a town bartender. “Half the country has a fire ban. We'll probably watch the fireworks on TV.” If the manager hopes that customers will still come to celebrate on January 1, many Australians prefer to stay at home, like this resident who told the Guardian: “I sit at home, go to the swimming pool and stick with my ice pack.” .”
And Marble Bar's situation is anything but isolated. This year's Australian summer, which began in December, is under the influence of the El Niño phenomenon, which is causing increased temperatures and extreme weather conditions ranging from wildfires to tropical cyclones and prolonged droughts. “From January to March, maximum and minimum temperatures are at least 2.5 times more likely to be abnormally high across much of Australia,” says the country’s Bureau of Meteorology.
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