Though temperature records were not broken across the state as feared, scientists are finding that even a standard summer day presents real dangers in Sydney.
In the state’s far west, the temperature was brutally oppressive on Monday, reaching well into the 40s as residents braced for the prospect of Australian heat records being shattered, and waited for a cool change that was promised to blow in from South Australia sometime after dark.
Pfautsch is collaborating with colleagues from UNSW on a study called “Too Hot To Play”, trying to find out at which temperatures Sydney’s parks empty as children and carers are driven indoors. So far, the data is grim. “If you are a little toddler, and you fall in this playground right now, on your hands, and you try to push yourself up, and you’re on your hands for about five seconds, on that material, you start to see burns. It is definitely dangerous,” he said.
The high temperatures across much of Australia at present have been caused by a high-pressure system lingering over central Australia, where cloudless skies over the dry interior have allowed temperatures to build up over an extended period, says Monash University’s Dr Ailie Gallant.
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