Overview
- The Bureau of Meteorology has issued heatwave warnings for Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT as a broad hot spell expands.
- Western Australia is being driven into severe heat by a west coast trough, with daytime temperatures in the mid‑30s to low‑40s and elevated overnight minima.
- Named WA regions include Goldfields, Eucla, South West, South Coastal, South East Coastal, Great Southern and Central Wheatbelt, with towns such as Kalgoorlie and Katanning flagged.
- Fire weather warnings are current for Roe, Arthur, Lakes, Stirling North, Stirling West, Fitzgerald Inland, Fitzgerald Coast and Esperance Coast districts.
- Heat is forecast to peak mid‑week in southern capitals—Adelaide 37C and Melbourne 35C—before showers and storms cool the southeast later in the week, with Sydney above 30C for several days, Brisbane staying in the 30s and Darwin likely seeing an early monsoon.