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Late-season warmth bathes Sydney

Brett Dutschke, Thursday April 24, 2014 - 15:15 AEST

Sydneysiders are being bathed by late-season warmth, the warmest for
this late in autumn in 61 years, with the city nudging 30 degrees this
afternoon.

The city reached 29.9 degrees, eight degrees above the late-April
average and about a degree warmer than May 5th 2012.

The last time Sydney has been warmer later in the season was in 1953
when the city reached 30.2 degrees on April 27th. The record high for
this late in the season is 31.6 degrees on April 24th 1919.

Residents are making the most of the warm day by flocking to parks and
beaches in numbers not seen at this time of year in decades.

Northwesterly winds have been dragging very warm air from western New
South Wales where heat has been able to build due to a lengthy run of
northerly winds under clear skies (western NSW has been reaching the
low-to-mid thirties)

The warm weather will not last long with a gusty southerly change this
evening cooling the city by seven-to-10 degrees.

Anzac Day will only warm up to 21 or 22 degrees across the city with
southerly winds bringing cloud and a few showers.

Looking further ahead, there is some good news for those who like the
warm days. Residents can plan for temperatures in the mid twenties
this Saturday and Tuesday just ahead of a cooler changes.

Elsewhere in NSW, today is the warmest for this late in the
season in 57 years in Newcastle, reaching 31 degrees.

It hasn't been this warm this late in the season in 28 years in Camden
(29 degrees), 12 years in Bourke (32 degrees), Kempsey (32 degrees)
and Merimbula (26 degrees), nine years in Bankstown (29 degrees) and
Coonamble (31 degrees) and seven years in Richmond (29 degrees), Port
Macquarie (29 degrees), Lismore (31 degrees) and Casino (30 degrees).

- Weatherzone

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