What Is The Highest Temperature Ever In Australia?

Australia claims to be the driest continent on this planet, and South Australia claims to be the driest state in the driest continent. Australia is too extensive to have a single climate. It is not necessarily ‘hot and dry’, as it tends to be characterised, although such a description can be applied with moderate accuracy to the
interior.

Although Cloncurry, in Queensland, Australia recorded a temperature of 53.3°C (128°F) on 16/1/1889, it was made using a nonstandard temperature screen. Consequently, the Oodnadatta recording is the high
temperature extreme.

However, on 2/1/1960, a record high temperature was taken in Australia with a standard instrument called "Maximum/Minimum Thermometer in Standard Stevenson Screen". That highest temperature was recorded at Oodnadatta, Australia, and it was 50.7°C (123°F).

[Source: World Weather/Climate Extremes Archives]

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The highest ever temperature ever recorded in Australia was 45.0 degrees, which was recorded in Port Hedland in the year 1948. In the year 2005 there were around one fifty high-temperature records set all over Australia during the months of January to April but none could break the record set in the year 1948.

The over all range of climate proceedings integrated nation-wide averages, state averages and maximum and minimum temperatures for quiet a number of places. After a temperate and humid start to the year the northern continent of Australia had an average January-April temperature of 26.9 degrees.  

The average Australian temperature has increased by just about 0.9ºC since the year 1910, consistently with global warming development. The April of 2005 has recorded many state level high temperatures with South Australia and Tasmania breaking their earlier records.