According to www.weatherzone.com.au, the temperature spiked at precisely 37 degrees, a very slight improvement on the 37.4 degrees on Thursday and the 37.5 degrees on Wednesday.

Thankfully, the forecast from Saturday onward is for more traditional January temperatures.

The mercury is tipped to rise as far as 32 degrees on Saturday, with Sunday and the rest of next week expected to see nothing warmer than 31.

The predicted break in the summer swelter comes as two locations in western NSWbroke Australia's high minimum temperature record.

The lowest temperature observed at Noona and Borrona Downs and during the 24 hours to 9am on Friday were 35.9 degrees and 35.6 degrees respectively.

These 'low' overnight temperatures beat Australia's previous high minimum temperature record of 35.5 degrees, which occurred in WA's Wittenoom in 2003 and SA's Arkaroola in 1982.

Earlier this week, Borrona Downs registered the highest minimum temperature on record in NSW with a low of 34.6 degrees on Monday morning.

This morning's unprecedented minimum temperatures occurred amid an extreme heatwave that has broken a plethora of heat-related records in a number of states and territories this week.

Unfortunately, there’s little to no rain in Orange’s forecast, with a 40 per cent chance of between five and 10 millimetres on Tuesday the only possible moisture on the horizon.