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Hottest since April
Yesterday's maximum temperature of 90.1 degrees
was the highest since April, but today is expected
to be about 15 degrees cooler.
Yesterday's minimum was 53. Last April 12 a
temperature of 91 was recorded. The average
December maximum is 79 degrees.
A dry thunderstorm struck Canberra about 2pm
yesterday, with wind squalls averaging 38mph and
a maximum gust of 58mph which raised a lot of
dust but brought very little rain.
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