How 'unprecedented' early season heat baked Australia

By Peter Hannam
Updated November 28 2017 - 9:38am, first published October 5 2017 - 1:00pm
Sydney is experiencing severe dry weather following months of very little rain. Photo of Gladesville park in Sydney. Photo: Steven Siewert Oct, 3, 2017
Sydney is experiencing severe dry weather following months of very little rain. Photo of Gladesville park in Sydney. Photo: Steven Siewert Oct, 3, 2017
NSW RFS crews make the most of cooler temperatures tonight and tidy up within containment lines at an old hazard reduction in Bowen Mountain. 13th September 2017, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.
NSW RFS crews make the most of cooler temperatures tonight and tidy up within containment lines at an old hazard reduction in Bowen Mountain. 13th September 2017, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Last month's early-season bursts of heat sent temperatures of some parts of eastern Australia a full 16 degrees above average, new analysis by the Bureau of Meteorology shows.

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