Roasting continues
CAIRNS residents are sweltering with the temperature reaching 35.5 degrees at 2pm, nearly 5 degrees hotter than the monthly average.
With relative humidity sitting at 45 per cent, the apparent temperature is now a stifling 37 degrees.
Weather bureau records show today's apparent temperature peaked at 37.3 degrees at 11.30am when relative humidity soared to 62 per cent.
Forecaster Jonty Hall said it was expected to be "pretty humid and pretty hot” in coming days with a pattern of rain and thunderstorms predicted from tomorrow.
Weather bureau forecaster Jonty Hall said it was expected to be "pretty humid and pretty hot" in coming days with a similar weather pattern of rain and thunderstorms predicted from tomorrow.
The humidity will remain high in most towns in the Far North.
Check out how Cairns residents are cooling off
In the region, at 6am today, the relative humidity was already soaring with Cairns and Weipa feeling the sweltering humid conditions of 89 per cent while the temperature was 31.1 degrees in Cairns, and Weipa a few degrees higher at 33.5.
Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria experienced 86 per cent humidity with 27.8 degrees while Cooktown was 84 per cent humidity with 31.7 degrees.
Mareeba, on the Tableland, experienced 80 per cent humidity at 6am with a temperature of 27.7 degrees.
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