Now that's a COOL car! Pranksters give new meaning to 'carpooling' after filling their ride with water and driving to a bottle shop to beat the heat - as temperatures hit 41C
- The clever lads decided to transform their beaten-up ride into a swimming pool
- Footage of the pair driving through a drive-through bottle-o emerged this week
Two pranksters have transformed their beaten-up ride into a swimming pool as the ultimate way to keep cool and carry on in the sweltering heat.
Footage of the pair, armed with snorkeling equipment, driving their modified car through a suburban drive-through bottle-o emerged on social media this week.
The Adelaide lads have given new meaning to the term 'carpooling', 7News reported.
In the video, the two larrikins are parked inside the drive-through bottle shop with several spectators laughing and taking photos with their mobile phones.
After allowing onlookers to capture the bizarre moment, the pair then drove off and one of the men popped his head out of the sunroof to give bystanders a regal wave.
The duo's invention couldn't have come at a better time, with Adelaide now in its third-straight day of temperatures over 40C.
Temperatures across South Australia are running 10 to 12 degrees Celsius above average, fuelled by a pool of hot air that has been circulating over inland Australia since November.
On Tuesday, Port Augusta posted a top temperature of 48.9C, the highest ever recorded in the mid-north town.
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In Tarcoola, further north, the mercury hit 49C, also beating the town's previous record of 48.9C.
Both communities are forecast to experience similar conditions on Wednesday while a string of other towns will also have tops in the mid to high 40s.
Adelaide is tipped to have a top of 40C, after similar maximums on Monday and Tuesday.
All states and territories except Tasmania have centres where the temperature is due to stretch into the 40s.
Several towns along the NSW-Victoria border felt the hot weather this week, with Mildura hitting a scorching 46C.
The clever lads decided to transform their beaten-up ride (pictured) into a swimming pool as the ultimate way to keep cool and carry on in the sweltering heat
In central NSW Ivanhoe also got to 46.8C on Tuesday, while a sea breeze limited inner Sydney to 29C but the western suburbs including Penrith recorded 39.7C.
Australian Open players had cooler conditions than on Monday as Melbourne reached a bearable 30.4C, while outer suburbs like Scoresby reached 40.2C.
A widespread low-intensity heatwave is expected to stretch through to Friday from central Western Australia to southern parts of the Northern Territory and southwestern Queensland, as well as parts of Tasmania and Victoria.
The severe weather has prompted warnings from emergency and health authorities for people to take care, as the state's hospital networks start to track heat-related admissions.
Authorities are particularly concerned about the impact on those most vulnerable, including the homeless, the elderly and those with medical conditions.
The duo's invention couldn't have come at a better time, with Adelaide now in its third-straight day of temperatures over 40C
'Heat is the worst of our natural emergencies with excess hospital presentations, ambulance transfers and even people potentially dying,' Chief Medical Officer Paddy Phillips said.
Bureau of Meteorology regional director for South Australia John Nairn said the heatwave had its origins in the severe weather that baked Queensland late last year.
'Since then we have not had a weather event that has pushed the hot air out of the continent and it's been recirculating back and forth,' he said.
'It's basically a very large pool of air that's been building and that's not being shed.'
SA's State Emergency Service has issued an Extreme Heatwave Emergency Warning and the state government has declared a Code Red.
The Code Red triggers extra funding so services for the homeless can be extended while a special phone line will also operate for the next two days, providing regular checks on the elderly and others at risk.
