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49.5c (121f) is damnably hot. wow

Given enough time, that's about hot enough to cook a piece of beef to rare.

A lot of places in Victoria while they didn't break records, it was hottest day since Feb 7th, 2009.

Fortunately there wasn't a repeat of that day, but the scary thing is it's still only January.

Not to minimize the problem, but doesn’t this depend entirely on how many “records” we define and keep track of?

South Australia has rainfall and temperature records that go back 120 years or so, so there's a bit of data to compare to.