Whether you've spent your public holiday getting outdoors, unwinding, or nursing a headache, people across the Territory have all had one mission in mind - keeping cool from the heat. With a heatwave boiling central Australia and a monsoon no-show in the top end, cooling off is the priority.
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00:00Territorians are feeling the heat this public holiday. A heatwave is scorching Central Australia
00:09with no end in sight.
00:11It's been a while since we've had a temperature below 40 degrees for Alice Springs and on
00:15the forecast we don't get below 40 degrees in the next seven days.
00:19Centralians are no stranger to heat and are dealing with it in the best ways they know
00:24how. Swimming off the sweat.
00:26It's always too hot and I want to cool down so that's why I go to the pool.
00:35Make sure to wear your thongs while you're out and make sure to stay under a shade.
00:41It keeps everyone really healthy as well and in that active lifestyle so when it's stinking
00:45hot you're either inside on a couch or you can come out here and cool down.
00:50Others opting to stay out of the sun altogether.
00:53And now we're in the nice cool cinema and then we might get a nice cold ice cream.
01:00What do you think?
01:02Yeah.
01:04Stay inside. I mean if you have to go out I wouldn't recommend walking around.
01:10Although familiar, the heat isn't to be downplayed. This week dubbed as abnormally hot for the
01:17time of year.
01:18A lot of people say it's hot but the fact that we do have heatwave conditions is reflective
01:24of the fact that these are unusually hot conditions so it's even hotter than normal.
01:28While we're not in a heatwave here in the territory's top end, the record-breaking absence
01:33of the monsoon is driving people troppo. We're expecting to see a bit of rain throughout
01:38the week here in Darwin but for now the hot and sticky conditions are here to stay.
01:44We've still got that really high dew point so we've got really high humidity and with
01:48the same dew point the temperatures come down a little bit, that's actually increased the
01:51relative humidity.
01:52Testing the true limits of what it means to be territory tough.