Brisbane teams are seemingly bringing the Queensland heat south for the football finals this weekend as another burst of unseasonable temperatures engulfs Australia.
This next wave of hot air developed slowly across Australia's "heat engine" this month, a term used to refer to northern Western Australia in the warmer months when cloudless skies, a high sun angle and still air allows a very hot and dry air mass to form.
On Wednesday a north-easterly air stream blew the hot air initially to WA's west coast, leading to dozens of September records, including 39C in Geraldton, 36C in Dalwallinu. Saturday's clash between Brisbane and Collingwood will be played in a warm and dry northerly, sending Melbourne to a toasty high of 29C, the warmest final since the record for an AFL grand final of 31.3C in 2015.
A scorching hot north-westerly will send Western Sydney to about 35 to 36C on Sunday, as much as 12 above the October average.While it should cool down before kick-off at 7:30pm, a temperature in the high 20s is still likely, similar to the average maximum in the height of summer. The latest satellite analysis shows the recent warm and dry weather has dropped moisture content well below average across the majority of southern Australia with some areas now having soil moisture in the lowest 1 per cent of historical data.
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