Springtime Heatwave in Southeastern Australia

Springtime Heatwave in Southeastern Australia

Location

Southeastern Australia

Released time

2009/12/1

Introduction

A spring heat wave scorched southeastern Australia in mid-November 2009, pushing the fire danger to the “catastrophic” category in parts of South Australia and New South Wales and to “extreme” in other surrounding areas. Many cities, including Melbourne and Adelaide experienced record-breaking temperatures that continued for many days.

Source

NASA

URL

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/41438/springtime-heatwave-in-southeastern-australia