(Independent) – Roads melted and doctors warned people about heat stress as Australia notched five of its 10 hottest days on record amid a searing heat wave. One town in New South Wales recorded a night-time low temperature of 35.9C – the highest minimum temperature ever recorded anywhere in Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology said. The extreme heat, which has hit the country for a week, has caused dozens
of bushfires and bat deaths on a “biblical scale” in Adelaide, South Australia. More than a dozen people in that state have been taken to hospital due to heat, reports said. Temperatures soared past 46C in parts of New South Wales on Friday, setting new records. The state’s Bureau of Meteorology said a run of highest ever maximum temperatures were set in various places in the past few days. READ MORE
