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Fuck 54 degrees in Aus....

Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:56 am

Off the charts now 54 degrees !!!!!! That 129.2 for the Yanks viewing.
The range now extends to 54 degrees – well above the all-time record temperature of 50.7 degrees reached on January 2, 1960 at Oodnadatta Airport in South Australia – and, perhaps worringly, the forecast outlook is starting to deploy the new colours.

"The scale has just been increased today and I would anticipate it is because the forecast coming from the bureau's model is showing temperatures in excess of 50 degrees," David Jones, head of the bureau's climate monitoring and prediction unit, said.

While recent days have seen Australian temperature maps displaying maximums ranging from 40 degrees to 48 degrees - depicted in the colour scheme as burnt orange to black – both Sunday and Monday are now showing regions likely to hit 50 degrees or more, coloured purple.

Read more: Bureau Of Meteorology Weather Chart | Deep Purple
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David Jones

Head of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Services at Australian Bureau of Meteorology

A total fire ban is in place across NSW and the ACT as temperatures soar.

Heatwaves like the one sweeping Australia today will become more common as the globe warms, with record high temperatures already outpacing record lows by a ratio of three to one, experts said today.

Temperatures are expected to climb past 40 degrees celsius across the country today, with authorities warning of extreme bushfire risk in NSW. Over 90 bushfires had broken out across that state by early this morning, the NSW Rural Fire Service said.

Australia had experienced six days in a row of average temperatures above 39 degrees and another two days were expected, the Bureau of Meteorology said. The previous long run of such high average temperatures was four days, set in 1973.

A long dry spell in inland Australia, fewer cold fronts and the delayed onset of the monsoon in the country’s north had helped create today’s conditions but “the other thing at play here is climate change,” said Dr David Jones, Head of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Services at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

“We know that inland Australia is a degree and a half hotter than it was 50 to 100 years ago. Every single day we have this background warming trend which effectively means the whole climate system operates on a higher base,” he said.

“If you look at maximum temperatures, we are now finding that the rate at which we get record high temperatures is three times faster than the rate at which we get record low temperature.”

In other words, he said, “for every record cold day we see, we get three record hot days.”

“The climate system is really strongly weighted over Australia now towards record heat… that’s quite a profound shift.”

Dr Jones said Australia “was now seeing record hot nights five times more frequently than record cold nights.”

The Bureau of Meteorology released a Special Climate Statement yesterday saying that for the last four months of 2012, “the average Australian maximum temperature was the highest on record with a national anomaly of +1.61 degrees celsius, slightly ahead of the previous record of 1.60 degrees celsius set in 2002 (national records go back to 1910).
As climate warms, heat waves outpace cold snaps three to one

and the denier crowd keep rattling on in their fantasy land....

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I'll be sure to let the Aussies know they are imagining that things are getting warmer.
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Post by JimC » Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:47 am

I've experienced high 40s once, at Alice Springs...

Not pleasant...

Quite a heatwave at the moment, and many, many bush fires. Already well over 100 houses lost in Tasmania...
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Post by Audley Strange » Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:48 am

Tis the fault of Britain, we knew Climate change would affect the Colony, but the dumb crims thought slow motion genocide only applied to the natives. We planned this to burn you all.

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Post by Jason » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:00 am

In other news, there's two feet of snow here and it's regularly -20C.

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Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:53 am

n other news, there's two feet of snow here and it's regularly -20C.
that''s a result of the Arctic dipole
Warm Arctic, Cold Continents
Changes in the Arctic Are Hitting Closer to Home

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The low Arctic pressure field is shown by purple colors in the figure for December 1968–1996. Strong Polar Vortex winds circle this pressure field, trapping cold air in the Arctic regions. In December 2009, this pattern broke down, Polar Vortex winds weakened (green colors) and cold Arctic air (which parallels the color contours) flowed southward.
Download here. (Credit: NOAA)
It’s a puzzle: How could warmth in the Arctic produce frigid conditions elsewhere?
http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitor ... rctic.html

so in other words....not news...and one reason it's called climate change. As long as the earth tips it will get cold at times and when the high stalls.....really fucking cold. :coffee:
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Post by FBM » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:03 am

Damn, that's hot. The hottest I remember was 120F in MS once and 45C in Thailand.
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Post by Blind groper » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:08 am

Yeah, I experienced 47 C once in Singleton (NSW). What I remember most was the reverse effect of a breeze. Normally a breeze is cooling, but at 47 it was burning.
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Post by Jason » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:41 am

macdoc wrote:
n other news, there's two feet of snow here and it's regularly -20C.
that''s a result of the Arctic dipole
Warm Arctic, Cold Continents
Changes in the Arctic Are Hitting Closer to Home

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The low Arctic pressure field is shown by purple colors in the figure for December 1968–1996. Strong Polar Vortex winds circle this pressure field, trapping cold air in the Arctic regions. In December 2009, this pattern broke down, Polar Vortex winds weakened (green colors) and cold Arctic air (which parallels the color contours) flowed southward.
Download here. (Credit: NOAA)
It’s a puzzle: How could warmth in the Arctic produce frigid conditions elsewhere?
http://www.noaa.gov/features/02_monitor ... rctic.html

so in other words....not news...and one reason it's called climate change. As long as the earth tips it will get cold at times and when the high stalls.....really fucking cold. :coffee:
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Post by Rum » Tue Jan 08, 2013 9:49 am

The hottest I have ever known was in the northern Sahara in Morocco. I'm not really sure what the temperature was - mid 40s or a tad higher maybe. It simply wasn't realistic to walk around in it mid day. Everything stopped and when it cooled down after 6 the everything woke up, markets started up, cafes opened and people came out to enjoy the relative cool.

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Post by redunderthebed » Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:59 am

46 degrees is the hottest ive ever experienced.

54 degrees well where that is is in the middle of the desert so yeah not unusual although i believe that would be the hottest day in the recorded history of australian weather.
Blind groper wrote:Yeah, I experienced 47 C once in Singleton (NSW). What I remember most was the reverse effect of a breeze. Normally a breeze is cooling, but at 47 it was burning.
Yup wind burn i actually got it when i went camping up the coast from here at christmas when it was about 30-40km northerly winds coming straight off the ocean and it was 41 degrees and not a percentage of humidity aka fucking stinking weather.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:19 am

I used to work in enginerooms hotter than that, and it wasn't any "dry heat" either.
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Post by pErvinalia » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:02 pm

We had our hottest (average) day on record today. The average maximum across the country was 40.33 degrees C. They reckon tomorrow will probably beat that by 0.1 or 0.2 degrees. Oodnadatta, where that purple spot is, has had something like 8 days in a row over 45 degrees C. And it's going to get even worse for them next week. :o

By the way, hottest i've ever done was 45C on a couple of occasions.
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Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:37 pm

In other news, "climatology" is less of a science than "scientology".
yeah right and there really is a Santa Claus .....swallowing Faux news koolaid again I see. Right wingers these days are hilarious.
There is indeed a "conspiracy"....

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... -of-doubt/

it's not on the climate science side however but if you enjoy being a toadie for the fossil fuel interests they surely welcome your contributions.

Tell me o wise one....just why the fossil fuel industry's own scientists confirmed it to their employers back in the 90s - or are you so obdurate as to think they are in on the "fix" too... :funny:
Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate

By ANDREW C. REVKINPublished: April 23, 2009

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming.

“The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,” the coalition said in a scientific “backgrounder” provided to lawmakers and journalists through the early 1990s, adding that “scientists differ” on the issue.

But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.
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That was the 90s. - you been hiding under a rock?
Australia is big time in the cross hairs for AGW, temps, cyclones and changing rain patterns. I'd say the BOM knows a bit more than you.....of course that's not saying much
Observed Changes
Temperature

Australian average temperatures have increased 0.9°C since 1950, with significant regional variations. The frequency of hot days and nights has increased and the frequency of cold days and nights has declined.

Rainfall

Since 1950, most of eastern and south-western Australia has experienced substantial rainfall declines. Across New South Wales and Queensland these rainfall trends partly reflect a very wet period around the 1950s, though recent years have been unusually dry. In contrast, north-west Australia has become wetter over this period, mostly during summer.

From 1950 to 2005, extreme daily rainfall intensity and frequency has increased in north-western and central Australia and over the western tablelands of New South Wales, but decreased in the south-east and south-west and along the central east coast.

Oceans

Global sea levels rose by about 17 cm during the 20th century, and by around 10 cm from 1920-2000 at the Australian coastal sites monitored. Substantial warming has also occurred in the three oceans surrounding Australia, particularly off the south-east coast and in the Indian Ocean.
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Post by Jason » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:15 pm

If you're so concerned about emissions from fossil fuels why aren't you touring Australia on an electric scooter? :hehe:

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Post by macdoc » Tue Jan 08, 2013 5:25 pm

I buy offsets - and I don't deny the obvious like some swallowing the fossil companies koolaid.
It's quite possible to have a carbon neutral civilization without shivering in the dark.
Sweden is well on the way.

i found people that chuckle at their own " cleverness" rather immature - just sayin. :coffee:
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