AMN/ WEB DESK

Parts of Australia, including Sydney, experienced its hottest November night on record yesterday as temperature reached 30 degree celsius. The daytime temperature is expected to hit 40 degree Celsius today.

The heat has prompted the New South Wales Fire Service to issue a total fire ban for most of the eastern and northeastern parts of the state. The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a five or six-day heatwave for parts of northern New South Wales and southeast Queensland.

Australia has been experiencing hotter and longer summers with last season dubbed “Black Summer” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Unusually prolonged and intense bushfires burned nearly 12 million hectares, killed 33 people and an estimated 1 billion animals.