Sydney sweats in ‘Singapore-like’ humidity as monsoon moves to Queensland and hot weather hits WA

BoM meteorologist says ‘there is a lot going on’ in Australia’s summer, with eastern sea temperatures 3C higher than average

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Sydney’s oppressive humidity will hang around at the weekend, forecasters say – as elsewhere in the country a monsoon moves across Queensland, Western Australia suffers a severe heatwave and Melbourne turns cool and cloudy.

“There is a lot going on,” Dean Narramore, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said on Friday.

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