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Another round of heat to finish up Spring

Tristan Meyers, Wednesday November 25, 2015 - 11:36 AEDT

Extreme heat has been affecting New South Wales again this week just ahead of a cooler change.

The change will bring cooling relief to the Upper and Lower Western and Riverina today and overnight, and will do the same to the rest of the State tomorrow, reaching the far northeast during the evening. Moree is likely to hit about 42 degrees this Thursday, even hotter than the sweltering heat of last Friday.

With this latest bout of heat, Albury and Tumbarumba is on track to smash their previous hottest spring on record, set just last year, by nearly a whole degree. Wagga Wagga, Cobar and Mt Ginini are all looking to finish up their third hottest spring on record. For Wagga Wagga, records go back over 70 years.

For most other locations, including Orange, this spring will sit in the top five hottest on record.

Overall, it has been a dry spring, but rainfall was varied across the State. Some of the central-west, such as Mudgee only accrued 30% of their seasonal average, while Lismore tallied over one-and-a-half times their average. Around one out of every five locations reported below-average rainfall, with nearly 25% of stations reporting less than half of their seasonal norm.

The Indian Ocean Dipole has broken down, and the summer will be influenced by warmer than average temperatures in the Indian Ocean and an intense El Nino. With this in mind, summer has an increased risk of being hotter than average for south and northeast of the state, while the best chance to receive above average rainfall are in the northeast.

- Weatherzone

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