 While coastal regions may have experienced shorter periods of heat wave, for the time that they did experience temperatures over , they mostly reached the top 3, top 5 or top 10 all-time temperature records for a number of days.An excellent example of this is Melbourne, which had only 3 consecutive days over , yet when combined with the record set on 7 February, now has recorded three of its five (being 1st, 3rd and 5th) all-time record-high temperatures.The heat wave was perhaps most extreme in northern and eastern Tasmania, where 7 of the 8 highest temperatures recorded in Tasmania up to that time occurred during the heat wave.