Australia's "dome of heat" has become so intense that the temperatures are rising off the charts – literally.
I find it interesting as a visualization person that they didn't rescale the color map. In the context of the usage of a long standing color scale with an audience, I can understand why you wouldn't want to rescale the color map. I wonder how long it took them to decide what the new colors are, because they are probably going to be stuck with them for a while. Also, it collides/overloads the cold colors but you probably aren't going to confuse it for -25C because of the context of the surrounding red colors (unless hell did decide to freeze over).
123 degrees Fahrenheit. Is it time to abandon Australia? Clearly it was not meant to sustain life.