Summer keeps sizzling
AS THE state swelters through a record-smashing run of +30C days, news comes that the heatwave will break with a week of showers.
But the weather bureau warned the summery temperatures are going to stick around for at least another month.
Several Queensland towns have endured, and continue to endure, a string of +30C days, including a stifling 71 days straight in Texas, east of Goondiwindi on the NSW border.
Its previous run lasted only 47 days, in 2014. Rainbow Beach, 1770 and Coolangatta also broke records for consecutive days above 30C.