Weather watch - 02/28/2016

"Australia seems like the hottest place on earth at the moment, even hotter than the equator. We are being cooked in the out of control climate change"

---Deejay Rebel (Facebook)

Temperatures of 40C are predicted for Melbourne on Wednesday (Tuesday UST)

Across the Tasman, in Christchurch we have some cool temperatures but the Melbourne weather will catch up a couple of days later.

Meanwhile, we continue to have very warm temperatures in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand.

Conditions globally (temerature anomalies). There's a lot of heat around on the planet.

The North Pole is (relatively) on fire.