Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to Photos Proving Australia is unlike Any other Continent" video.

  1. Death Valley might beat anywhere, but the reality is so much of the Aussie outback is so uninhabited there's little out there recording information. Anecdotally temperatures have been recorded as high as 57 (135) degrees in the shade at some outback mining camps but not to modern measuring standards. It's not like Furnace Creek where there is constant recording in some of these hottest places, although most people don't believe the Furnace Creek 1913 record meets modern measurment standards. Bragging rights are a thing, of course. We have a couple of endorheic basins below sea level too that potentially could see similar combinations of conditions to see record temperatures, but reality is that the Middle East or Northern Sahara are in the same boat too - there will be peak temperatures we've missed, and any record is probably going to fall in those desert areas closest to the equator, whether that ends up being in Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia or Saudi Arabia. No point trying to steal their thunder. But as far as big cities? Western Sydney is now regularly seeing summer temperatures as hot as 46-47 Celcius, with the record in Penrith being 48.9 or just over 120 farenheit. So melting tarmac and bars of soap are far from impossible. Melbourne, which is nearly the same size as Sydney (a fact which may not be that well recognized outside of Australia) has a record temperature of 47.9 Celsius, so not much cooler despite being over 500 miles further south. Days like this are usually part of a heatwave where you might get a week of daily temperatures around 43 C or so (110 farenheit) and low temperatures at night only dropping to 33 C or so (90 farenheit). Remember Sydney is coastal, so expect much much worse inland. Northern South Australia, Western Queensland and Northern Western Australia can all get around or even over 50 degrees Celsius, with the highest recorded temp at an official weather station being 50.7 (123). This weekend, in the middle of winter, I'm looking at daytime temperatures on the coast of up around 85 farenheit, and around 50 at night. This is unusual but not rare enough to be shocking.
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