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Australia's Hottest Summer Beats Previous Record by 'Large Margin' (brisbanetimes.com.au)
As Australia welcomes the first day of autumn with a sigh of relief, the summer statistics have arrived from the Bureau of Meteorology confirming suspicions that the country just sweated through it's hottest-ever summer. From a report: The national mean temperature for summer smashed the 1961-1990 average by a whopping 2.14C, almost a full degree above the previous hottest summer on record (2012-2013), which was 1.28 degrees above the old average. The mean maximum temperature also beat the 2012-2013 mean maximum by a similar margin (2.61 degrees above average compared to 1.64 degrees above). "It was exceptionally warm across most of the country," the weather bureau's summary states, with NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory all recording their hottest-ever summer as severe and lengthy heatwaves spread across much of the country in December and January.
No links, no mention of where temperature recordings were made. When was the earliest recording made. How accurate are the recordings. More BS articles from msmash.
What of it? It's Australia, it gets hot. Don't like the heat? New Zealand is a three hour flight away.
Northern US had super cold spell... so I guess it balances out?
I have a tried and true Australian strategy for counteracting this. Put a tax on the temperature.
he would spontaneously combust in a flash of grease fire so large elon musk could see it from mars
This is a fact. This happened. These Republican faggots want to play their denialist games but in the end, this happened. This is how it is. We need to solve the Republican liar faggot problem.
And hell froze over in LA this February. How much of this is (or isn't) statistical noise amplified by climate change hype?
^^ These Republican faggots want to play their denialist games but in the end, this happened. This is how it is. We need to solve the Republican liar faggot problem.
^^ These Republican faggots want to play their denialist games but in the end, this happened. This is how it is. We need to solve the Republican liar faggot problem.
I haven't seen any reports of a repeat of the South Australian Blackout of 2016. I guess there has been some sort of technological improvement since then.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
The last 5 years or so have been some of the coldest in my 50 years of life.
Design something to suck up all that heat and transport it somewhere else. Heh, sounds like a Dubai project.
I keep hearing on how weather is not climate. Especially now that here in the Midwest we are seeing record setting snowfalls and record setting low temperatures. Yet in the article they claim Australia's heat is evidence of global warming.
So what if Australia saw record high temperatures? This is a weather event, not global warming.
If anyone insists that this is indicative of global warming then every record low temperature must be counted as evidence against it. Now, make up your mind. Is weather the same as climate? If so I got lots of frosty white evidence of global cooling in my front yard for you to see. Is weather different than climate? Then this record setting temperature in Australia is a local news event at best. I shouldn't care about Australia's heat any more than they care about my wind chill numbers.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
...come all the armchair climatologists to cry out against climate change...
^^ These Republican faggots want to play their denialist games but in the end, this happened. This is how it is. We need to solve the Republican liar faggot problem.
Climate is what you get when you the average weather statistics for a long period (not just the temperature but also other things such as humidity and rainfall). So yes, weather could become climate. And yes there's such a thing as local climate, since we get different "climates" as we go from a desert region such as North Africa to the poles.
It's teh global warmingz!!1!!!
Some sort of Australian Seasons Savings? On my calendar the equinox is March 20.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
First time in 132 years.
But I'm pretty sure that will never be a headline here...
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How the heck are they starting Fall, when we're 20 days from Spring?
In New Zealand it has felt like a very short and not-so-hot summer. For the past week, late-summer temperatures have been as low as 5 degrees in the morning and topping out at a not-so-flash 19 degrees around here (we're talking Celcius for you 'mericans) during the day.
Even today, there's a cold Southerly and I went back to wearing jeans (instead of shorts and a teeshirt) well before the end of February whereas in years-past, it's been safe to keep wearing my summer gear through to near the end of March.
Of course this may be just an anomoly (in which case it's just "weather") but it might also mean that the bloody Aussies stole our summer in order to get their "hottest ever" weather. Bastards! :-)
Yum yum, love those tasty homogenised temperature records.
I'm only 45 but here in Brisbane this summer didn't stand out as being hot at all if that makes anyone feel better.
Well, it is bitter cold in much of the USA but global warming must go on! Now, why exactly do we as tech geeks have to perpetuate this global warming scam?
Then I guess we'd better get hot ... no pun intended ... on some technological solutions.
(Perhaps the saltwater cloud guy from earlier today.)
Hand wringing, scolding, and name calling don't seem to be doing the trick.
Or you could just take it from those of us who live there. I'll put it in words even you might be able to understand - It's been really fucking hot all summer and is still hot. Seriously dickhead, go spend some time outside instead of spending your whole life in an air-conditioned bedroom in our parent's house wanking yourself and even you will become convinced of climate change.
For first time in 132 years, L.A. never reached 70 degrees in February...
But you stupid fucks still blame it on carbon.
... that the first day of Autumn offered no relief. It was 38degC in the Victorian Central Highlands where I live and looks like being not much cooler than that today.
A YouTuber I follow is at the Avalon Airshow, just south of Melbourne. Not only is it pushing 40, it's windy, that hair-dryer hot wind that makes 40-ish temperatures even worse. In the meantime we've just had the coldest February ever here in Vancouver.
...laura
...in Australia tries to kill you.
Well it's autumn here in Oz, but the heat is still here. Looking out the window all I can see is black smoke from a major bushfire in the Bunyip State Forest. The fire about 10 km away to the south east. It has more than doubled in size in the last few hours. Luckily the wind is blowing from the north. This not typical autumn weather for South East Australia. Our climate is changing and is affecting the environment in a very negative way. Don't need any scientific instruments to see what is happening.
More so, because the change to night-time temperature is noticeable. Normal early autumn means lower midday temperatures with night-time still holding the daytime heat.
Such an early chill in the season means there's bound to be a temperature spike, then the antarctic winds arrive and winter proper, slowly arrives.
I'm quite surprised this is the hottest summer ever. This summer didn't feel hot. I remember how hot it was in the 1990's. I think it was 1993, it was so hot some days, we had to sit the bath tub to stay cool, workers were sent home and schools closed, you just couldn't do anything at all. It was also very humid then too.
Maybe were just adapting.
Wouldn’t the first day of autumn in Southern Hemisphere correspond to first day of spring in Northern Hemisphere? First day of spring in Northern Hemisphere is March 21/20, which even Babylonians knew!
Weather is the short term. If the record is for 100 years, then that isn't short term at all.
Because that claim is a load of bollocks.
1) Bristlecone pines only
2) Only after 1970
3) Only in northern hemispheres
4) every other proxy keeps up, including other tree ring species
5) It's well understood why: pollution. Which is more in the NH.
Otherwise there would be no way to define a continent.
And, despite being warm for polar winter air, it was cold for georgia winter air. Fucking idiot.
unless it fits my narrative.