Sydneysiders swelter but no records set

As expected, Sydney sweltered through a scorching Sunday with the mercury soaring
into the 40's but failing to smash the all-time November record.
In the CBD on Sunday, the temperature reached 40.4 degrees, just shy of the 1982
November record of 41.8.
Further west at Sydney airport, the mercury shot up to 42.5 degrees, almost nudging
the 1982 record for that area of 43.4, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said.
"There were near-record temperatures right throughout Sydney (on Sunday), which
reached up to 40 degrees, so there was no escape from the heat for anyone," BoM
forecaster Michael Logan said.
The movies, the beach ... and ice cream anywhere ... were the preferred ways to beat
the heat.
Around 25,000 people flocked to Bondi beach yet , lifeguards said they didn't have
to log many rescues.
"We performed more rescues on Monday than we did today," one lifeguard told AAP.
Anna Kennedy was one of many people who went to George Street cinema in Sydney city
for respite.
"I should be used to it coming from Brisbane, but it is really hot," she said.
Overseas visitors, Egli Becerra from South America and Italian Manuela Vettore, also
went to the movies to cool down.
"We hadn't planned on going to the movies, it was just too hot outside," Egli
Becerra said.
Paramedics were kept busy around midday as the mercury climbed steeply, attending
four heat exposure cases in the three hours between 12pm (AEDT) and 3pm.
One case was at Taronga Zoo; the others were spread across Sydney from Windsor in
the far west to the northern beaches suburb of Dee Why.
Other cases that paramedics attended across Sydney may have been heat-related but it
was impossible to say how many, an ambulance spokeswoman said.