It’s nowhere near our record but, after a soft end to spring, the past week has seen the district swelter under string of high temperatures.
From a maximum temperature of just 27.9 degrees at Coonamble Airport on Friday 1 December, the official gauge hit 40.2 degrees on Saturday 9 December and is predicted to remain above 35 degrees for the rest of this week.
The highest recorded December temperature at Coonamble Airport since it opened in 1997 was 44.3 degrees on 21 December 2019, and the lowest maximum was 19.6 . . .
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