Temps in Australia hit a miserable 117 degrees. New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn said the state's heat wave plan had been activated to respond to "severe to extreme heat conditions." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sydney-heat-wave-weather-january-2018/ Thousands were left without power, and total fire bans were put in place as officials warned of a severe danger. Residents were urged to drink extra water and limit their time outdoors because of air pollution resulting from the hot weather. So while the Northeast of the USA is frozen, Australia burns.
You're going to get the usual stuff about it being summer. Of course that will ignore the fact that the climate in Australia has and is changing. It's a bit unusual for western Sydney to get to the 40s centigrade. It's usually a bit more humid there in summer. Where I live it's usual to have severe summer heatwaves as the location is south of the huge deserts to the north of us and north winds sort of like super Santa Ana Conditions afflict us. But, subjectively, the heat waves are longer and more intense.
Heat waves in Australia are nothing new. How about the great heat wave of 1896? https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/64889112
Climate changes year by year. No two years are identical as to weather. Every year changes the picture a bit.
Because the Greenweenies frown on electricity being wasted on things like AC so they don't have enough generation and power transfer capacity to keep up with population increases.
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Yes, each year changes it a bit. Typically speaking, climate is measured in running averages over periods of 10 or 15 years, since yearly variability is far more related to weather, not climate. After all, the average ability of our planet to lose heat to outer space doesn't change much on a year to year basis, so the year to year spikes and valleys in the charts tend to represent other phenomena.
wait...you mean its cold here in the NE...while simultaneously being hot in Australia?! Everybody.......RUN!
I don't know what got you off the rails. But, you have to admit that it's interesting that they have roads that are melting!
What the......? Huge demand means we have to increase base load but who wants to spend mega dollars for power plants that will only come online very intermittantly? We, unlike the USA are looking at innovative ways to maintain power even in surge times
