[tonny747]

20 records according to the this link https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-re...

[stock_toaster]

49.5c (121f) is damnably hot. wow

[kbouck]

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

[dwd]

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_he...

[baddox]

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

[dwd]

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