 The heat wave was the worst in Australia's history.During the heat wave, several records were broken; Tasmania recorded its highest-ever temperature; in Scamander, and the long-standing Tasmanian record of (recorded in Hobart on 4 January 1976) was broken five times within two days at Flinders Island, Fingal (twice), St Helens and Scamander, while Hopetoun in Victoria recorded the state's highest temperature and the highest temperature of the heat wave, with a reading of .January 2009
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Temperatures have been recorded since in 1855.