Temperatures soar amid heatwave conditions across much of Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory are sweltering under heatwave conditions. Meanwhile in Sydney's west, temperatures have risen above 40 degrees celsius.

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00:00As you can see behind me, people have been streaming down to Lake Parramatta to kind

00:06of beat the heat.

00:07It was a lot quieter this morning.

00:09I can see a lot of people behind the camera beginning to kind of park and come down to

00:13kind of cool down.

00:15Up near Penrith, we're expected to hit about maybe about 42 degrees Celsius.

00:19But this heat wave is also kind of putting a lot of pressure down in Campbelltown, where

00:24it's about 40 degrees Celsius.

00:25Between 2019 and 2020, during quite a significant heat wave, hospital admissions, especially

00:31for things like heat stress, heat exhaustion, dehydration, had doubled during that period.

00:36And with the hottest December on record, they are warning that the presentation, so people

00:41kind of fainting or kind of falling ill, could put a lot of pressure on emergency waiting

00:48times in particular, particularly out in Sydney's west, where the ambient temperature tends

00:52to raise a lot more than, you know, the further away you are from the coast.

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