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Speaker 1: Now maximum temperatures in the high thirties to low forties

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Speaker 1: and overnight minimum temperatures in the mid twenties. We know

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Speaker 1: that there is severe to extreme heat wave conditions going

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Speaker 1: to peak over the next few days, with severe heatwave

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Speaker 1: conditions continuing into early next week. And joining us on

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Speaker 1: the line to tell us a little bit more about

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Speaker 1: what we are expecting and what we're currently experiencing. From

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Speaker 1: the Bureau of Meteorology, it is the duty forecaster, Sally Cutter.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Sally.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Sally.

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Speaker 1: What are we expecting over the coming days when we

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Speaker 1: talk about these heat wave conditions.

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Speaker 2: Well, probably the thing to remember is even though it's

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Speaker 2: they are, it's usually hot in around the north, so yes,

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Speaker 2: it is. But what the heat wave conditions are is

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Speaker 2: that the effect is unusually hot, and it's not just

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Speaker 2: unusually hot, it's unusually hot in both the day and overnight,

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Speaker 2: so you don't actually have the ability for you body

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Speaker 2: to recover from the heat of the day, and over

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Speaker 2: three days it builds up. So that's when that's why

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Speaker 2: there is those heat wave alerts and warnings going out

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Speaker 2: just simply because whilst yeah, it might be hot, you

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Speaker 2: might think you're used to it, you're just not being

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Speaker 2: able to recover, and it can have serious impacts. Heat

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Speaker 2: Waves are actually one of the biggest killers out there

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Speaker 2: that even though people don't tend to think about it

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Speaker 2: for natural disasters is one. They can be quite.

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Speaker 1: Serious, particularly, I would assume as well for the really young,

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Speaker 1: the elderly, and those that maybe have pre existing medical

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Speaker 1: conditions as well. I know, when my dad was really

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Speaker 1: crooked with cancer and you know, we're going through a

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Speaker 1: really hot situation in the top end at the time,

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Speaker 1: it hit him really hard. So I'm assuming that that

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Speaker 1: is the case for a lot of Territorians.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, if you've got any ailment that is heat sensitive,

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Speaker 2: you yeah that you really need to take extra care.

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Speaker 2: And this is why we put out these alerts just

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Speaker 2: so that people who are in those situations can go right,

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Speaker 2: I'm not just imagining it. It is hot, I'd better

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Speaker 2: do something yeah about it or prepare who know that

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Speaker 2: it's there. Particular when the first one comes out, you go, right,

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Speaker 2: I need to find somewhere that I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: able to keep.

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Speaker 1: Cool, yep, and try to try to keep that temperature down. Sally,

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Speaker 1: tell us what kind of temperatures are we expecting, And

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Speaker 1: you know, first I guess in Darwin and then then

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Speaker 1: around the top ends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so Darwin, we're looking at certain pretty warm temperatures

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Speaker 2: thirty five today, but we do have a bit of

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Speaker 2: a surge coming through, so we're going to see the

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Speaker 2: winds picking up clear skies. And the sun is actually

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Speaker 2: overhead today at twelve thirty and thirty one seconds, so

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Speaker 2: if anybody get cares through venture out at that time

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Speaker 2: of day, the sun will be directly overhead. Yeah right,

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't. It should be only a minimum shadow. So

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Speaker 2: the sun's pretty we're getting the full glass the sun

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Speaker 2: at the moment, and we're looking at thirty seven tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: twenty fives over night twenty six is which might even

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Speaker 2: be a livid to the warm and don't get those

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Speaker 2: minimums so you sit much higher than that for most

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Speaker 2: of the night. So thirty seven tomorrow, thirty six on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: and goes back down to thirty five Sunday, but we

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Speaker 2: shout the shousand storms increases. But if you're a rural

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Speaker 2: area like Berry Springs, forty today, forty one tomorrow, forty

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Speaker 2: on Saturday, and again minimums in the mid twenties, and

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Speaker 2: they might drop down to thirty eight Sunday Monday, but

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Speaker 2: it's going to remain pretty hot out there if you're

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Speaker 2: heading a little bit further afield, are venturing out to

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Speaker 2: Kakadoo Way, looking forty one today in debrus forty for

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Speaker 2: Friday Saturday, and again those minimums in the mid twenties,

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Speaker 2: and it might be a little bit of a different

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Speaker 2: minimums over the weekend to particularly live it further south.

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Speaker 2: Van Catherine Way sort of drops down to twenty or

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Speaker 2: twenty three tonight, twenty and twenty one on Sunday. And

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Speaker 2: with those minimums dropping down, it does ease the heat

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Speaker 2: wave a little bit or heatwave conditions, but we're still

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Speaker 2: looking at forty one today, thirty nine for the next

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Speaker 2: those heat wave conditions, it's still going to be hot

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Speaker 2: out there. Yeah, so just just think home of heapno

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Speaker 2: heat wave, it's fine, it's still hot. You still need

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Speaker 2: to make sure you don't dehydrate and don't overheat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, such good advice, Sally. And I suppose as you

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Speaker 1: touched on, you know, those overnight minimums are still so

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Speaker 1: incredibly high, and it seems to be really quite humid

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, particularly on the west coast. What we seem to

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Speaker 2: have at the moment is what we call synoptic west leaves,

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Speaker 2: so it's a trough over wa So we've got those

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Speaker 2: west leaves, which when you're looking at the the mean

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Speaker 2: sea level the ice of bars, so that's what we

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Speaker 2: cause an optic scale. So it's brought it's very large

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Speaker 2: gale driven winds and they're coming off the water. And

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Speaker 2: whilst those sort of winds are good during the day

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Speaker 2: because the rings are slightly cooler air off the water, overnight,

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Speaker 2: as the land cools down, it becomes cooler than the water,

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Speaker 2: so it's just putting in more hot air, so you

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Speaker 2: don't really want them overnight. And unfortunately that's what's happening

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So Sally, when are we expecting or hoping that the

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Speaker 1: conditions might subside to some degree and we might get

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Speaker 1: some wet weather.

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Speaker 2: Today it's getting less likely. Yousould go into the weekends.

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Speaker 2: Sunday we might start coming back. Maybe Monday Tuesday might

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Speaker 2: be a little bit of hope. But if you're in Darwin,

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Speaker 2: so go into that awkward position. We're far enough north

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Speaker 2: that if you get the sea breeze coming in off

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Speaker 2: the Van Diemen golf too early or pushes that seabree

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Speaker 2: fronts where their storms usually form or can often form

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Speaker 2: a bit too far in or it's too far inland.

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Speaker 2: So when they get the storms form and they get

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Speaker 2: picked up by the steering winds, they get taken across

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Speaker 2: to the south of us, which is why Palmerston might

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Speaker 2: get a few more than itself. But also you've got

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Speaker 2: to get him across the seabree so unfortunately Darwin's in

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Speaker 2: a really tricky location. But the west coast hopefully we'll

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Speaker 2: see something early next week, and with that cloud cover

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Speaker 2: it does help keep the temperatures down a little bit

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Speaker 2: during the day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Sally Cutter, I always appreciate your time and

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Speaker 1: appreciate your insights. Thank you so very much for having

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Speaker 1: a chat with us today and no doubt we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanky, Thank you,