Scorching heat to stay all week

Jessica Darmody eats a gelato ice cream from Hank’s Kitchen to cool down during yesterday’s sweltering heat.

Poll

How do you keep cool?

This poll ended on 30 April 2010.

Hit the pool

24%

Sit in the shade and hope for some breeze

33%

Go to the cinema - the air con's free!

7%

Hang out in the deli section of a supermarket

3%

Eat ice cream - lots of ice cream

3%

What heat? I don't feel it

28%

This is not a scientific poll. The results reflect only the opinions of those who chose to participate.

GRAFTON sweltered for a third consecutive day yesterday, and it’s not going to get any better for the rest of week.

The maximum temperature in Grafton yesterday was 37 degrees, following Monday’s 36.6 scorcher and Sunday’s 32.4 high.

A Weather Channel spokesperson said there would be a slight reprieve today – if you consider 33 degrees to be a reprieve – before consecutive days of 37 and 38 degrees respectively tomorrow and Friday.

She said the hot temperatures were the result of a build-up of heat over the last month. The spokesperson said a cold front developing over Western Australia would hopefully push away the mass of hot air over the next week.