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Queensland is now marching directly towards the new years, as the silver-spray-painted gum branches they use instead of pine Christmas trees begin to crack in the heat.
This whole global warming yarn may in fact be true after all, as Queensland’s inland maximum temperatures were begin nailing their forecasted 8-10C above average.
BOM senior forecaster Felim Hanniffy has said several locations were set to approach December records in the wake of Queensland’s second-warmest November.
The mercury has been forecast to hit 46 degrees Celsius in Goondiwindi, 44C in St George, 41C in Dalby and 37C in Toowoomba.
While many climate skeptics will argue that ‘it gets hot in summer’ the record breaking heatwaves are beginning to point to the fact that Al Gore may have been right all those years ago.
However, one climate record that has tumbled in 2020 is the unprecedented amount of Queensland households that rigged up their pedestal fans outside over the weekend.
While a common place practice for most families around the Sunshine State, sitting in front of a fan while having a few goldies in the shade only really happens around Christmas Day.
Setting up the outdoor fan as early as the 5th of December is unheard of.
“This just goes to show how friggin hot it is” says Betoota Lord Mayor, Councillor Keith Carton.
“We had the water sprinklers and fan going on the first weekend of December”
“Please ensure you leave some water out for your kids and give them a fan of their own”
Maximum temperatures last month were 2.85C above average, the minimum was 2.17C above and the mean temperature 2.51C above.
Betoota’s neighbouring town of Birdsville had a November-record run of four days above 46C, peaking on 47.1 degrees on Monday.
