From the interior around the NT/WA border which has 850hpa temps around 34C today

Port Augusta now 48C at 1.15pm, with a full 3-4 hours of heating left it could be in with a real shot of getting to 49.5C+...

Wow even Port Lincoln has cracked 48°C, it usually dodges the heatwaves but not this time. As mentioned above, Port Augusta has also reached 48, as has Ceduna. There's also multiple 47's across the state.

There it is!!! HIGHEST ever temp recorded in Adelaide.
46.2

I have a feeling we may see that record smashed by the days end

Tarcoola and Port Augusta are neck and neck now.

Port Augusta just pulling ahead at 49.1. That 0.9 could be the distance to Andromeda or just a gust of wind away.

Ceduna tripped up by the trough - who knows if it could have.

sorry - wrong thread. Was meant for SA board

Port Augusta 49.5!!

ah beat me to it

Equal 9th hottest temp ever recorded in Australia...

Tarcoola looked like it was out for the count, but comes back with a late 49.1. Has it got any more puff left, that's the question...

Fascinating to watch this minute to minute. Does highlight just how extreme the weather needs to be to get to 50C.

@Blair Trewin
how many 50+ in the non-digitalised paper records?

If you round it to the nearest degree it's 50°C!

unless its been round up from 49.49c

There are probably plenty of people sweltering who envy us on the NSW north coast where temperatures have seldom left the twenties this month. Just a pity about our humidity. I find dew points in the mid-twenties, as we're experiencing today, quite oppressive, especially when there's not much breeze. Adelaide's dew points today are around 20° lower. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.

Just a thought ...

The only one we know of with standard instruments is a 50.0 at Wilcannia during the 1939 heatwave.

That would make the Wilcannia 50 the NSW record would it not? And not far off Mardie and Ood. When do you expect it to be digitalised?

Smithville 46.8 at 12.30pm might be one to watch

Not sure, but it's near the top of the priority list when money gets found to start doing historical data again.

Save some dough and stop putting AWS in the desert. Use that to get it done. Before the dumbasses at the ABC, SBS and Fairfax turn a future NSW 50 into a 'hottest evah' meme, coz they looked up climate data data extremes and no one in your illustrious bureau corrects the dumb shiitzzz