1/12-17 Among Hottest 10 Days On Record In Australia; Roads Melting, Peaches Cooking On Trees
Canberra, Jan 18 (IANS) Australia’s heat wave dragged into its sixth day on Friday, with roads melting and heat records broken. The six days from January 12 to 17 were all within Australia’s 10 hottest days on record, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said.
At Wauchope, 373 km north of Sydney, bitumen was reported melting on the main highway, causing road workers to spray water to cool the surface so that it would not stick to car tyres, according to the local Argus newspaper.
Temperatures at some regional sites in New South Wales (NSW) clicked over 46 degrees Celsius on Friday, with one regional town breaking the state record for the highest-ever overnight temperature, ABC News reported.
Heat records were broken across eastern Australia also as temperatures soared in the high 40s. Australia’s highest night-time heat record was smashed on Thursday at Noona, 800 km west of Sydney, where the lowest overnight temperature was 35.9 degrees Celsius. Records across South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria over the past week include 48.9 Celsius in Port Augusta, 47.8 Celsius in Andamooka and 46.4 Celsius in Griffith.
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Extreme heat in South Australia is leading to heavy losses for stone fruit growers, with their produce burning from the inside out.
Dried Tree Fruits Australia chairman Kris Werner, who grows stone fruit at his property in Waikerie, between Adelaide and Mildura, said many growers were losing their fruit to 'stone burn' due to the heat.
"The stone burns them, which means they burn on the inside, they become squashy and you can't use them," Mr Werner said. The extreme heat has cost Renmark stone fruit grower and packer Dino Cerrachi up to 30 per cent of some stone fruit varieties this season.
"It's extremely hot and we are expecting 46, possibly 47 degrees [Celsius]," he said. "Basically, it just sort of cooks that side or that part of the fruit that has the direct sunlight for a length of time and it gives you an impression that it is soft, but it has actually gone jammy from being cooked."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2019-01-16/heatwave-burns-stonefruit-from-inside-out/10717496?sf206017347=1&fbclid=IwAR1ghlMLTamTb2RSWmXKO8mNrmj-1tAeRxUT4KE_B5kXgnPhK5EWsVjj_qI
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