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Showing posts with label heatwave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heatwave. Show all posts
Friday, August 30, 2024

Australia experiences record breaking winter heatwave; Rapid snow season decline; Global Snapshot of news reveals climate crisis extent

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Australia experiencing a late winter season  heatwave breaking temperature recotds. Australia is in the grip of a late winter season heatwav...
Thursday, August 3, 2023

Record Extreme heat in Chile, Argentina... in winter.

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We are just having a record warm winter in Tasmania, parts of Victoria and Sydney , slightly more pleasant temperatures, but in Chile and Ar...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Over 61,000 heat related deaths during 2022 European summer

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New research estimates over 61,000 heat related deaths in Europe in 2022. And that comes after heat alerts and other climate adaptation meas...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Sleepless in Melbourne - heat, humidity and rainfall set new January records for Victoria

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BOM: Average Tmin deciles for January Sleepless in Melbourne? January was a warm one for Melbourne despite presence of La Nina (ENSO) which ...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Video: Life at 50C - The families forced to defend their homes from Australian bushfires (BBC)

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This short BBC documentary investigates the climate change impacts of extreme heat and bushfires. It articulates climate change is here and ...
Friday, April 30, 2021

North Africa and Middle East Warning on heatwaves and extreme temperatures driven by global heating

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A few years ago climate scientists announced that in coming decades Melbourne and Sydney will experience 50C days. Those temperatures are al...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Extreme Heat withering the trees in Albury

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It's been an incredibly hot summer so far if you live in Australia's inland. Record breaking heat is impacting the health of people...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Politician responses to the record extreme heat for Australia January 2019

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I've done some tracking on twitter across the political divide on climate and the heatwave events, going back to 22 December 2018 (the ...
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Australia's Hottest January on Record as we head into a climate election

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Just as climate change has been driving up temperatures in Australia to record levels, the political temperature is also rising for a clima...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Heatwave round 3: climate diary of an Australian heat event

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Welcome to my third daily diary of an Australian heatwave event. This heat event is marked by persistent heat from the Pilbara and Central ...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Take 2: Climate Diary of an Australian heatwave - January 2019

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Round two for extreme heat roasting of Australia this summer. The first heatwave round ocurred over the Christmas New Year period for whic...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Australia's Christmas-New Year heatwave as global warming at 1.1C above pre-industrial

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I followed the heatwave over the Christmas - New Year period at the end of 2018 and start of 2019. Read my climate diary of the event . I...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

North Queensland Extreme Heatwave impacts koala population

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I was scanning for news articles on heatwave impacts and came across this article on Koalas by ABC Capricornia. It's a well written, b...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Climate Diary of an extreme heatwave across Australia and climate heat impacts

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The Bureau of Meteorology in the lead up to christmas in 2018 showed a heatwave building through the week. The forecast was for severe and...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Queensland's Catastrophic bushfire, extreme heatwave and climate change

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Queensland: Catastrophic fire conditions, a week long extreme heatwave with record breaking temperatures, mass bushfire evacuations at Gra...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Guest Post: What's your heatwave plan?

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Australia's 'deadliest natural hazard': what's your heatwave plan? Andrew Gissing , Macquarie University and Lucinda Co...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

Guest Post: Liz Hanna on the reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities

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I have been very concerned about rising temperatures and the urban heat island effect on the people in our cities, particularly Melbourne an...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Thermal, wind and demand forecasting failed in South Australian Heatwave: AEMO

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AEMO have released their preliminary report into the loadshedding and blackout of 90,000 south Australian residents and businesses during t...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Heatwave makes Australia hottest place on planet with catastrophic bushfire conditions

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Australia is currently the hottest place on the planet with the heatwave in SE Australia according to the Climate Reanalyzer site for Satu...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Colour scale confusion in Australian heatwave maps

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Forecast Map produced by Bureau of Meteorology for 5pm 11 February, 2017. Source I am reflecting on how easy it is for misleading informat...