Hot display iMac 24"

I am sitting here in Adelaide and the outside temperature is 40 degrees C, inside my house it is around 30 degrees C, warm but bearable.
My Mac display seems to get very hot and on days like this it is hard to work with. I downloaded a temperature monitor widget and got a reading of 73C [163 F] for the Northbridge Heatsink.
That seems very hot to me, is it normal?

G'day Mate!
I live in the tropical part of Mexico (the Yucatan) and we are on the same temperature range you mention. There was a period of time last year when INSIDE the house temperature was above 40º... i used to have at home an iMac 24" 3.06 and yes indeed it got VERY hot and uncomfortable... i happen to work at the same distance as you from the display... my solution was to bring a cheap standing electric fan, there's a ceiling fan at my home office but it simply can't provide enough cooling for the iMac and myself... so the standing fan blew directly to the iMac... and it indeed cooled the iMac quite fine, after a couple of weeks with that heat i took the iMac to the office where there's air conditioning. I was afraid the iMac would severely decrease its useful life working constantly at that high temp.
If you do not have a cooler place to work i strongly suggest to get yourself one of those fans... or two... one for you and one for the iMac...
In the oher hand... or on top of it... you can install smcFanControl http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049 and set the fans to start running at a lower temperature...
i did that with my MacBook Pro and also got a ventilated laptop stand (usb powered fan below) and it keeps it quite fresh...
ooh seems like there's a better fan control for iMacs...
http://www.derman.com/iMac-Fan-Control
Good luck
Good luck
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