PHOTO: Recent temperatures prompt a look back at Coonamble's heatwave history.
What a relief the cooler weather was when it arrived on Monday 3 February.
A maximum temperature of 35 degrees celsius felt quite acceptable after weeks of really hot weather.
As you do when you're stuck indoors due to sweltering heat, the Coonamble Times went surfing the net for evidence of historic heatwaves - and we weren't disappointed.
While we didn't exhaust ourselves checking the daily temperatures over the past 140 years we . . .
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