Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939.

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr