Video: Motorist fries egg under sun in hot car

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Video: Motorist fries egg under sun in hot car

A dramatic video captured in Karratha, Western Australia.

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Published: Mon 7 Jan 2019, 2:36 PM

Last updated: Mon 7 Jan 2019, 7:15 PM

A week after triggering record high temperatures in Australia's northwest region, widespread heatwave conditions arrived on the other side of the continent, pushing the southeastern city of Melbourne to a near-record 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 F).
A dramatic video captured in Karratha, Western Australia, shows a man cooking an egg inside a car in sweltering heat. The temperature at that time in Karratha was recorded to be around 44 degrees Celsius.
The video starts with the man putting a frying pan on the dashboard of car followed by cracking an egg into the pan. The egg starts to fry slowly. The video was uploaded on Daily Mail Australia's Facebook page.
Last year, a police officer managed to fry an egg on the hood of his car in the searing heat in Birdsville, Queensland Australia. Temperatures had reached 46 degrees Celsius in summer last year in Australia.
On Friday, Australia's south-east scorched as temperatures soar above 40 degrees Celsius. A total fire ban was declared for parts of Tasmania.


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