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Seething temperatures wreaking havoc

By Sandra Harwitt
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 29, 2009

MELBOURNE, Australia -- You can pick any of the dozens of adjectives available to describe how hot it is in Melbourne these days: blistering, broiling, fiery, parching, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, etc. They'd all work just fine. Let's just say when you walk out your front door and the blast of hot air hits you, one imagines that someone flipped a switch and encapsulated the whole city in a furnace. Temperatures on Thursday skyrocketed high enough to flirt with topping out at 110 d ...

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