Adelaideans were spared from the worst of the heatwave passing over much of Oz over the past week, but they couldn’t avoid it yesterday… Adelaide’s CBD notched its hottest day in nearly three years, with a high of 41.2C. A bit further west, the highest recorded temperature was 47.2C at Kyancutta, a small town on SA’s Eyre Peninsula. Southeastern Queenslanders didn’t fare much better… A storm on Monday night left 40,000 homes without power after the region had sweated through temperatures from the high 30Cs-mid 40Cs. Energy Minister Mick de Brenni said the outages were down to “a combination of high demand and heat on localised hardware saw that hardware trip to protect the system”. In Far North Queensland, residents are on high alert as they wait for Tropical Cyclone Kirrily to be officially declared by the Bureau of Meteorology. It’s tipped to make landfall tomorrow night.