After short break from a near-record hot week the heat is on its way back to far inland parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. A front which recently crossed southern Australia has only cooled the region to about average for about two days, bringing only a little, brief relief. It is already begun heating up to the mid-thirties west from about Uluru and this sort of heat will head east during the next few days. Winds are starting to turn more northerly again ahead of a low pressure trough, drawing heat from Australia's heat engine as it moves east across the country. The heat engine, Western Australia's Kimberley and Pilbara, has been running hot and is getting hotter. Marble Bar has been averaging 41 degrees this month, three degrees above the long-term norm and is likely to reach 42-to-45 degrees each day for the next week. The Pilbara town is on track for its hottest October in 114 years of records. The trough will take 40-degree heat to the Carnegie area by Thursday and the Alice Springs, Oodnadatta, Birdsville and Bourke areas by Friday. These areas have just come out of a near-record hot week for this time of year. Thankfully for most, this coming heat will be shorter-lived than the last bout. Bourke has only just emerged from its hottest October week in 116 years, averaging a maximum of 39 degrees. The very hot mass of air will get squeezed back north on the weekend by a cold front. One difference between this cold front and the last one is moisture. The system should have enough moisture to trigger showers and thunderstorms across a large area, bringing some rain relief to most places which have been very dry and dusty lately. However, like the last front this one will again only cool the region to near average, meaning it won't take long to become extremely hot again. Everything points to November being another month of heat waves, at least for the outback. It is highly likely we will see near-record November heat.