This is the way it has always been done. Sydney city temperature always differs to the suburbs.
I’m in a southern suburb of Sydney, close to the coast, and it’s 42 right now. But in the city it’s 35.
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Sydney’s main weather station at Observatory Hill really only represents the CBD, Harbourside & Coastal suburbs. Here are the average figures (based on 1991-2020 average, which is now accessible on BOM climate stats pages) here.
The best weather station that truly represents much of the Sydney metro area would be Bankstown Airport.
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Penrith peaked at 48.9°C as of 3:02pm.
Six weather stations across the metro area have recorded temps of 47°C & above this afternoon, which includes, along with Penrith: Sydney Olympic Park (47.1), Badgerys Creek (47.6), Bankstown (47.0), Horsley Park (47.0) & Richmond (47.4).
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Gee, that’s terrifying.
I might have to revise that prediction of Penrith cracking the big 5-0 to sometime within the next five years, rather than ten!
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Canberra reached 44.0°C at 4:08pm, breaking the previous all-time record by 1.8°C!!! 
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I’m wondering whether a bushfire has reached the Cabramurra weather station.
BOM reporting a maximum of 69.8°C at 4:26pm from that AWS.
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Penrith ‘the hottest place on earth’:
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The electricity interconnector between NSW and Victoria has been damaged and is now switched off. Prices spiked from $60/MWh to $14,700/MWh in NSW due to the deficit, and prices dropped in SA and VIC from $50/MWh to negative $1000/MWh (i.e wholesalers would be credited for taking electricity off the grid - the Tesla battery would do this). It has stabilised now.
You can see the impact to the market at around 3pm:
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Blackouts have begun in rural NSW and parts of Sydney.
Queen Elizabeth has sent a message of condolence.
So has the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
and lastly The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
What’s today looking like in the bushfire affected areas? Rain has come in Adelaide and Melbourne. Has there been any in these areas? Or any relief in temperatures?
Sam Newman attcking fire fighters and calling them miserable pricks 
https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/sam-newman-slams-miserable-pricks-refusing-to-shake-scott-morrisons-hand/news-story/f6d05cd854f2ccf007a0cdf41508f838
Who cares other than News Corp what an old retiree has to say?
2GB hires some of those too
Not much relief on the cards for eastern NSW at least. Any rain affecting southern VIC from these changes doesn’t make it this far north. We aren’t even getting storms from these changes at the moment. There is the chance of some showers tomorrow in some areas but what we need is a widespread rain event; that’s probably not going to happen until February or March. The Darwin forecast offers some hope with rain rather than isolated storms at the end of this week so the wet is finally kicking in across the north.
Temperatures are at least returning to normal, but it’s really only temporary until the next big heatwave. We haven’t even passed the normal ‘peak heat’ period for SE Australia yet (mid-late Jan).
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I missed part of the weather update for yesterday but it sounded like there was going to be smoke ash in melbourne tomorrow. Can anyone confirm this? Will probably take a hay fever tablet just in case.