Australian Heat Wave

Jan 8, 2026parts of australia will face catastrophic fire conditions on friday, when heatwaves are expected to hit most of the country. Severe to extreme heatwaves have been declared in every state. 1 day agoan intense and prolonged heatwave will sweep across australia from this weekend into next week, causing temperatures to potentially approach 50°c and fuelling catastrophic fire danger.

7 hours agoaustralians are bracing for a freak heatwave to hit this long weekend, as temperatures approach 50c in some areas of the country and a cyclone barrels towards one state. 1 day agoyet another major heatwave is sweeping across south-eastern australia. 1 day agohuman-caused global heating made the intense heatwave that affected much of australia in early january five times more likely, new analysis suggests.

The heatwave earlier this month was the. Parts of australia to approach 'possible record-breaking heat', bom says forecasts show parts of south-east australia will swelter under a record-breaking heatwave next week. Currently no warnings for new south wales, victoria, south australia, tasmania and australian capital territory

Jan 8, 2026three people were unaccounted for near one of several wildfires raging in australia on friday as the country is sweltering under a searing heat wave that has brought record-breaking. 2 days agoresearchers from australia, new zealand, sweden, denmark, the united states, the netherlands, ireland and the united kingdom collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced.