Sydney recorded a record temperature at night in November

Sydney posted record nighttime temperatures in November, with daytime temperatures reaching 40 ° C on Sunday.

The Australian city recorded the lowest overnight temperature of 25.4 ° C.

The heat prompted the New South Wales (NSW) Fire Service to issue a total fire ban in most eastern and northeastern regions of the state.

Firefighters are dealing with dozens of wildfires in the state. The temperature during the weekend also increased in other parts of the country.

These include South Australia and Victoria.

Nighttime temperatures at Sydney airport have dropped to 25 ° C by 5:30 p.m., local media said. The warmer weather is expected to start again on Tuesday, although the official summer press date still has several days to go.

“November is quite unusual in many ways. We have only seen half of its normal rainfall and it is very likely that this will be one of the hottest November on record,” Andrew Watkins of the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Friday.

It is the first major bushfire weekend since late last year, including Australia’s most intense bushfires on record, though not the deadliest season. The 2019-20 wildfire season has seen wildfires ravage more than 24 million hectares of land.

The fires affected every state in Australia, destroying more than 3,000 homes and killing or separating nearly three billion animals. At least 33 people died.

Sydney’s record high temperature was recorded on Observatory Hill in the Central Business District. By 4:30 a.m., the temperature had risen back to 30 ° C, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The previous record at Observatory Hill was 24.8 ° C in 1967.

Images from Sydney show crowds of people flocking to the beach.

The NSW Ministry of Health has reminded people to follow social segregation rules to prevent the spread of the corona virus.

BOM has forecast a 5-6 day heat wave in northern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland.