This Week Could Prove Sydney's Warmest November Period in Nearly 50 Years

Feeling hot, Sydney? If you're not already, you're about to. Continuing this year's record-breaking warm weather — including one of the city's hottest winter days and hottest September nights — a new sultry spell could see November come to an end with its warmest week in almost five decades.

Mere days away from summer, the temperature will be staying toasty right through until the new season hits, with forecasts predicting maximums above 25 degrees for the next seven days. According to Weatherzone, the last time a consecutive string of hot November days occurred was in 1968. And, it'll mark only the second time such a period has occurred in the past 118 years.

While showers are expected from Monday to Friday, increasing as the week rolls on, the mercury is still pitched to hit 27 degrees over the weekend — and then waver between tops of 25 and 29 degrees for the five days afterwards. It's the sustained nature of the warm temperatures that is unusual at this time of year, spanning so many days in a row. Keeping things heated, there'll be little reprieve come evening, as minimums stay above 19 degrees as well.

Sydney isn't the only place sweltering, with Melbourne currently experiencing a 28-degree-plus spell that's set to become the city's longest November heatwave in 150 years. Down in Hobart, Tasmanians just weathered its first-ever six-day run of temperatures above 26 degrees since data started being recorded in the 1800s.

Yep, it's going to be a hot summer.

Via Weatherzone.