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Tuesday was Australia's hottest day on record: BoM

People flock to St Kilda beach as a heat wave sweeps across Victoria. Wednesday, December 18, 2019. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

La spiaggia di St Kilda a Melbourne, mercoledì 18 dicembre 2019. Source: AAP

Preliminary results show Tuesday was Australia's hottest day on record.


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By Panos Apostolou, Stergos Kastelloriou

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Preliminary results show Tuesday was Australia's hottest day on record.


Tuesday was the hottest day on record with an average across the country of 40.9 degrees Celsius, preliminary results show. 

The Bureau of Meteorology said the average temperature beat the previous record of 40.3 degrees Celsius recorded on 7 January 2013. 

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