Heatwave to turn parts of Australia into ‘one of the hottest places in the world’ this week

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Portalrules123@reddit (OP)

SS: Related to collapse as climate change is making extreme heat events such as this much more likely and common. A mass of warm air from central Australia is tracking east and will result in parts of the east coast seeing temperatures in excess of 40 degrees Celsius, posing dangers for everyone but especially to vulnerable groups like children and the elderly. It’s not even summer yet in Australia so expect more heat events such as this in the future.

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beanscornandrice@reddit

And summer is just beginning for Australia

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jbot14@reddit

How can it be summer in Australia when it is still summer in the northeast USA? We've barely even had a frost yet...our old USDA frost date was September 15. It's now November.

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Shilo788@reddit

Southern hemisphere is winter when we are summer.

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jbot14@reddit

I guess was my point is that it has yet to get cold in the northern hemisphere. We are experiencing unseasonably warm weather due I'm guessing to climate change. Weather is bonkers this year.

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Rain_Coast@reddit

Eh? It’s plenty cool on the west coast, snow coming down the mountains already. Regional observations do not apply to a hemisphere.

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jbot14@reddit

Yep. Everything normal. No continental wide droughts going on... https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/s/xDohh3bWQr

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Rain_Coast@reddit

My point is “it has yet to get cool in the northern hemisphere” is bullshit. Hyperbole and making shit up benefits nobody, the science is quite dire enough as it is.

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jbot14@reddit

If a heatwave and drought in the northern hemisphere near the beginning of winter is an anecdote, then so is an article about a heatwave in Australia going into summer. The point of this article, no? Is that just hyperbole as well? Or is it also just made up shit benefitting nobody? I guess no individual weather pattern is climate change correct?

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beanscornandrice@reddit

I honestly can't tell if you're serious or not but, you're joking right?

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corpdorp@reddit

We normally say December is start of summer, it's meant to still be spring.

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beanscornandrice@reddit

Thank you for that, in the northern hemisphere it's almost as if summer is just year-round with a few weeks of cool weather sprinkled in.

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ThrowRA-4545@reddit

Australia is in its last month of Spring. Summer starts 1st Dec. We're cooked.

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teamsaxon@reddit

Can you cut the google amp tracker from the url?

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fitbootyqueenfan2017@reddit

"we can produce way more food than we actual need here in AU." meanwhile desertification doesnt give a fuk

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SadExercises420@reddit

I hope it’s not another mega wildfire year for them.

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Gjallarhorn_Lost@reddit

I read your comment as "Maga" and was wondering why they were mad at Australia.

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SadExercises420@reddit

They have their own rising fascist probleMs to deal with. Hope trump dies in fucking jail assuming he loses.

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Butt_acorn@reddit

you jinx’d it :(

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SadExercises420@reddit

I know I’m sorry.

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Professional_Nail365@reddit

This year feels ominously similar to late 2019/early 2020

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Decloudo@reddit

Just a matter of time until nothing left to burn.

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FerrousFellow@reddit

I worry how close we are to what amounts to the endgame for whole ecosystems there but yeah...

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Rain_Coast@reddit

Further away than North America, to be honest. Much further. Even accounting for shifting baselines and population declines, this continent makes North America or Europe feel like a tomb in terms of ecosystem biodiversity - and it is an ecosystem which evolved in extreme heat conditions, unlike the northern hemisphere.

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SadExercises420@reddit

Yes I think thats partly why they told themselves they were somewhat sheltered from the effects of climate change. Peoples bubbles are bursting all over the planet about that whole delusion.

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mem2100@reddit

I agree with this. Their bubbles are bursting. But what is coming out now is:

The government is manipulating the weather (deep sigh)
God is punishing us - yep - fUcker cArlson just gave an interview where he said that the hurricanes are being caused by abortions, not climate change

So we either have the Deep State scenario or the Sodom and Gommorah explanation.....

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Platypus-Dick-6969@reddit

I support encasing Australia inside a Glass Dome. Better for them. Better for everybody. 🫧

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Ok_Main3273@reddit

Inspired by Beyond Thunderdome you were?

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leisure_suit_lorenzo@reddit

Just rake the leaves, you'll be fine.

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Sanpaku@reddit

Victorialand is in drought, but most of Australia isnt. But its ratther early in the season.

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6sixtynoine9@reddit

I wish hopes and prayers were more effective.

And wishes.

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RobertoDeBagel@reddit

I’m in the ranges east of Melbourne. We’ve had two days of 29/30C in winter and early spring.

We’ve had rain but its been in deluges that have sheeted off and resulted in flooding on the plains below. The ground is dry. I’m thinking I need a bigger water tank for our property. Resilience is the only response I can stomach. The weather is increasingly erratic and unpredictable. Just like the models

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NyriasNeo@reddit

"A heatwave is due to strike Australia’s east coast, with temperatures expected above 40C, making the country’s north “one of the hottest places in the world” this week"

That is 104F. You still have the whole summer trying to beat Vegas.

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jadelink88@reddit

When summer starts, its might actually get hot.

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SavingsDimensions74@reddit

I’m in Sydney. We’ve been promised hot temperatures here for the last 3 days but the weather hasn’t got the memo apparently. It’s warm but low to mid 20s despite the forecast.

Can’t say what it’s like more northern than here but so far the forecast has been significantly off the actual temperatures

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Wild_Flower85@reddit

I’m in Brisbane and we had an extreme heat warning today, it will be over 30 degrees for the next week. The humidity we get up here is what makes it unbearable. Every damn year I say I’m moving to Tasmania.

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MfromTas911@reddit

I moved to northern Tasmania near Devonport 15 years ago because of hot summers in Melbourne. Within 5 klm of the coast, we have one of the most temperate climates in the world - never over 30 degrees and hardly ever under 0 degrees. In contrast, both Hobart and Launceston can get very cold in winter and surprisingly, up to 38 degrees in summer - although that doesn’t last long. The north east coast of Tasmania has nearly 300 sunny days a year, but is somewhat isolated from things. The west coast has the highest rainfall but again, is somewhat isolated. My family has never regretted our move here.

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leisurechef@reddit

Adelaide here, is it just me or is weather forecasting utterly useless these days? I’m wondering if it’s because of the Morrison Government corrupting the BOM?

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JonathanApple@reddit

Your from Adelaide, I'm from Mars... 🎵🎵🎵🎵

Sorry, am in love with Courtney Barnett.

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TheEnviious@reddit

I don't think it's accurate anymore, you could before plan a week in advance, and now I struggle with 2 days

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Current_Paint881@reddit

I'm in Victoria and I was saying something similar to someone this morning - that the forecasts don't seem nearly as accurate as they were even ten years ago.

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leisurechef@reddit

I don’t think we’ll hit 30°C today as predicted

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Current_Paint881@reddit

Ah, doesn't look like it. I'm in regional Vic and it's only 21 here.

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leisurechef@reddit

I keep watching long range forecasts in my Willy Weather app that I’m pretty sure pulls on BOM data…anyways, frequently temperatures & rain predictions morph & change into other things over the course of 4-5 days. Completely unable to predict anything.

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SavingsDimensions74@reddit

Expect forecasting to be more difficult.

It’s not that forecasters are getting worse - they’re getting better.

But as the weather gets less predictable, expect forecast confidence to become worse.

Probably the best example we had of this, this year, was Milton, that intensified from a tropical storm to a cat 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours. Models don’t really account for what we’re starting to see….

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Accomplished_Net7386@reddit

In Port Hedland, can confirm it’s hot af and the temp predictions have generally been a touch on the lower side.

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diedlikeCambyses@reddit

I was there 2 days ago, quite cold. The heat is coming though.

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thesourpop@reddit

climate change makes more erratic weather patterns that make our models worthless, so it's harder to predict

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Solo_Camping_Girl@reddit

I've been hearing this advice a lot from this sub and I'm curious if has anyone actually done it. Digging about a meter underground will make the temps cooler consistently. I don't know if this technique also works in both humid or dry heat, but it's probably worth a try.

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Logical-Race8871@reddit

Oh hell yeah we doin tatooine houses down unduh

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Solo_Camping_Girl@reddit

not going to lie, I'd like to spend a night in a house like that. My current workplace has a floor that is 3 meters/ 9 feet underground and it's the coolest place in the building and I loved it there.

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jellicle@reddit

Once you dig down about 10 meters or so, the temperature of the ground stays roughly at the annual average temperature for that location. So if external temps tend to range between 0 and 100F in an area over the course of the year, digging down for a bit will get you to an area that's about 50F year-round. Half the year the Earth's surface is colder and trying to cool down this underground dirt; half the year it's warmer and trying to warm up this underground dirt; the dirt is insulated by the dirt over it and only changes temp slowly; so 50F year-round.

Thus, digging deep enough can help humans evade either high or low air temperatures.

Basements may become part of our climate adaptations.

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YoSoyZarkMuckerberg@reddit

Basements are great, if your region isn't prone to flooding.

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jellicle@reddit

Yep, your climate-proof dwelling needs to both be dug deep into the ground (avoids high temp situations and high winds) and also be elevated well above the ground (avoids flooding). Good luck.

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Sanpaku@reddit

Long term, the passive cooling architecture of Persia will become commonplace, at least where water tables permit it and there's still the possibility of agriculture. Windcatchers (malqaf), underground tunnels for air flow in contact with deeper earth (qanat), underground thermal shelters (shabestan).

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corpdorp@reddit

We have a few small opal mining towns out in the desert Coober Pedy and Lightning Ridge whose houses were hewn out from the ground. I stayed in an underground hotel in Coober Pedy and yes quite cool although it wasn't particularly hot time.

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Intertravel@reddit

TIL California was the hottest place in the world, still everyone wants to move there for “ the great weather”

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OtaPotaOpen@reddit

How new zealand doing?

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Astalon18@reddit

We are doing fine climate wise. Not so employment and public service wise.

However if Aussies want to come over to help staff our health and education services please come over! Escape severe climate heating for a milder, Oceanic climate.

Yes climate change will still pound us but it will be like being punched by a fist instead of a wrecking ball.

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FelixDhzernsky@reddit

They deserve it. Highest emissions per capita. See you soon, Immortan' Joe!

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BrightGoldenHaze@reddit

Not happy, Jan!

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MasterDefibrillator@reddit

No mention of climate change, and even quoting some joker saying "it's always got this time of year"

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mslix@reddit

And it ain't even summer there yet!

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SS: Related to collapse as climate change is making extreme heat events such as this much more likely and common. A mass of warm air from central Australia is tracking east and will result in parts of the east coast seeing temperatures in excess of 40 degrees Celsius, posing dangers for everyone but especially to vulnerable groups like children and the elderly. It’s not even summer yet in Australia so expect more heat events such as this in the future.

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Competitive_Fan_6437@reddit

A cooler placed in the sunlight will always gather moisture. Hope you have plenty of coolers kicking around.

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a_little_hazel_nuts@reddit

Oh crap, heatwaves suck. Hope everyone can find a cool place to get through and when your dealing with heat remember to drink water. It seems like more and more heatwaves are happening all across the globe. Take care and stay safe.