While the East Coast of America at long last recovers from arecord - breaking cold - press stud , Australia is baking in mortal temperature   a cerebral hemisphere forth .

Over the weekend , large area of the Oceanic continent receive hazardously high-pitched heat conditions . Wildfires , circularise by hot dry winds , burn out of control in the State of New South Wales .

The Penrith suburb of Sydney reportedly reached 47.3 ° nose candy ( 117 ° F ) on Sunday , making it the hot day on phonograph recording for that region , according to theBureau of Meteorology , New South Wales .

The all - time record for the body politic was only a shade red-hot at 47.8 ° C ( 118 ° F ) , take place in 1939 . To the southwestward , Melbourne was measured at 40.1 ° C ( 104 ° F ) .

The high temperature was so uttermost that the mineral pitch began to unthaw in sections of a major main road in the land of Victoria . Images of the gooey tar were Tweeted by occupier stuck in traffic along the road .

Though large department of Australia are   covered in arid desert , this weather is far removed from normal fluctuations . The average high temperature for coastal cities like Melbourne and Adelaide range from the mid - to - high 20s in Celsius ( high-70s to mid-80s in Fahrenheit ) in January .

In a disconsolate example of how such freakish weather can impact wildlife , anenvironmental charitydocumented a massivedie - off of flying foxesin Campbelltown , New South Wales . declamatory number of the yield - eating bats were observed lessen from trees , dead or pass away , unable to grapple with the 38 - academic degree oestrus .

Since 2000 , Australia has set an alarming number ofhigh temperature recordsand see a reduction in the frequency   of cold weather spells . The bad intelligence does n’t end there .   Data frommultiple agency confirmthat the country ’s mood willcontinue to warm , possibly get 50 ° C ( 122 ° F)summer mean solar day by 2040 .

For context , 50 degrees Celcius is around 10 arcdegree higher than the temperature at which human enzyme ( the proteins that make everything in your body happen ) begin to give way down .

The overall pattern of increase extreme weather events has been definitively linked to serviceman - made clime change by numerous reports , such as this onereleased during the Obama administration in 2014 .

Meanwhile , the current President demonstrated his grasp of climate scientific discipline with this tweet :