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Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are all in Australia

61 points by mrmondo 8y ago

phs318u 8y ago
It has been pretty bad here. This [0] might be interesting for anyone wanting to check out how anomalous these temps are against long-term averages. Apparently South Australia had 17 temperature records broken on Thursday (though I can't find the link now). [0] http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=maxanom&period=daily&area=nat http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&...
- tonny747 8y ago
  20 records according to the this link https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-records-expected-to-be-broken/10745220 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-re...
  - stock_toaster 8y ago
    49.5c (121f) is damnably hot. wow
    - kbouck 8y ago
      Given enough time, that's about hot enough to cook a piece of beef to rare.
  - dwd 8y ago
    A lot of places in Victoria while they didn't break records, it was hottest day since Feb 7th, 2009. Fortunately there wasn't a repeat of that day, but the scary thing is it's still only January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_heat_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_he...
  - baddox 8y ago
    Not to minimize the problem, but doesn’t this depend entirely on how many “records” we define and keep track of?
    - dwd 8y ago
      South Australia has rainfall and temperature records that go back 120 years or so, so there's a bit of data to compare to.
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- crispinb 8y ago
  We (Northern Rivers) haven't had the extremes, but weeks of above-average temps on top of drought have made it dryer here than I've ever seen. The paddocks look more like Vic than the subtropics. My local creek has dried up for the first time anyone here knows of. Potable water tanks are near empty.
viksit 8y ago
And the lowest are all in Russia and Canada. (first question I had after reading this headline). Wonder if similar records are being broken there?
xanth 8y ago
To be fair the southern hemisphere only accounts for 31% of the world's landmass and of that Australia is 20% of the total landmass in the southern hemisphere experiencing summer right now.
- crispinb 8y ago
  True, it's probably typical for a good proportion of S.Hem summer maxes to be in Australia. The actual values aren't typical though - many temperature records being broken, bushfires in places that haven't experienced them in the past, etc.
- nraynaud 8y ago
  and the southern hemisphere has a summer slightly closer to the sun than the north.
aethr 8y ago
The temperature scale on windy.com doesn't really go high enough to depict how hot it is in Australia today: https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109,3 https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109...
- DrStalker 8y ago
  Some weather maps added purple to Australian heat maps a few years ago to fix that lack of range.
mrmondo 8y ago
When I went to jump in the shower this morning (Melbourne) at around 7AM, it was 32deg or so, the taps in the shower were actually too hot for me to touch, I had to use a facecloth over them.
- chrstphrknwtn 8y ago
  Are your shower taps in direct sunlight?
  - mrmondo 8y ago
    Indirect, but the light comes from a west-facing window that I've since covered in tinfoil heh.
m3nu 8y ago
In other news: "Australian coal exports hit record high"
- crispinb 8y ago
  the climate's always changing .. if not nice clean Aus coal exports then S.African brown .. sky is falling in lol .. it's snowing here what global warming lol .. what about Al Gore .. it hasn't warmed since 1996 .. what about the promised ice age .. (etc). Just thought we should get those out of the way.
  - swampthinker 8y ago
    It's shocking how damaging Gore has been to the climate change image to deniers.
    - SturgeonsLaw 8y ago
      If it wasn't him, they'd be latching on to another strawman. As an Australian who has been living in this heatwave, and as an inhabitant of planet Earth, it's time we ignored the deniers and just got shit done. Theirs is a position borne of self interest and ignorance, and we should stop giving equal credence to a demonstrably incorrect opinion.
      - stu432 8y ago
        No credence is given to climate change deniers, credence is given to the economy, jobs and bribes (in reverse order).
      - Recurecur 8y ago
        > If it wasn't him, they'd be latching on to another strawman. He's not really a "strawman", he was one of the most visible faces promoting climate alarmism early on, and was a prominent politician. He is easily skewered due to his laughable knowledge of science, and his hypocritical lifestyle. Now there is a large collection of others who make unsupported alarmist claims, incorrectly relate weather events to global warming, and are complete hypocrites with their resource use. For instance, see the 1,500 private jets that just showed up at Davos... If you want to make a positive difference, advocate nuclear power. It's the only way to replace 100% of fossil fuels without air pollution.
markdown 8y ago
> In 2015, Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton quipped about the fate of the Pacific Islands in the face of climate change, prompting laughter from then-prime minister Tony Abbott. > "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to be… you know, have water lapping at your door," Mr Dutton said. > Mr Morrison, then the social services minister, pointed out to both men that a microphone was above them." Last week Morrison visited Fiji as Australian PM and, presumably alluding to the above exchange, the Fijian PM said to him: > "Here in Fiji, climate change is no laughing matter. From where we are sitting, we cannot imagine how the interests of any single industry can be placed above the welfare of Pacific peoples — vulnerable people in the world over." - From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/climate-change-is-no-laughing-matter-fiji-pm-says/10724582 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/climate-change-is-no-... Hopefully now that aussies are feeling the heat, they'll elect someone who actually cares about climate change. Australia is the worlds largest exporter of coal, and all those chickens are coming home to roost.
- crispinb 8y ago
  The current fed government is such a laughing stock at this point, it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement.
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    >it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement. That same thought was what kept me going through the long Howard years...How wrong I was!
    - crispinb 8y ago
      The Aus well of political disappointment does indeed seem near bottomless .. thanks for reminding me ;)
      - stevesimmons 8y ago
        ... though speaking as an Australian now living in the UK, the current state of UK politics is far worse that Australia's ever was. :(
point78 8y ago
I'd take cold over hot any day of the week, but when we are talking about extreme cold or extreme hot I'm not sure which is worse? I guess you could survive longer in extreme heat?
- King-Aaron 8y ago
  It would be interesting to know which is worse, but it should be pointed out that being stuck without shelter or water in the bush during these conditions will mean you'll die in a matter of hours.
- princeb 8y ago
  heat waves kill more people than cold snaps, for what it's worth.
- FooHentai 8y ago
  You can survive in extreme heat with low humidity. Once the 'wet bulb' temperature exceeds 35 degrees C, sweating is no longer effective, core temperature rises, and you die. Extremes of cold must be a different story, about how much insulation can protect core temperature. There's probably a minimum temp at which something like respiration just ceases to work. This article has some good info: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/cold_humans.php https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/scie...
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    35˚C extreme? You die? That doesn't sound right. Anecdata: There was a strange heat wave here in Sydney about 7 or 8 years ago, where for a week or two it was 35˚ (and humid) all night, every night. It was uncomfortable, sure, but not extreme heat, I wouldn't say. I've never lived in a house with air-conditioning in Australia (and I grew up somewhere hotter than Sydney, which isn't particularly hot), hardly ever used a fan, even.
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Proven 8y ago
Eh, maybe because it’s summer? Morons.
hema_n 8y ago
49.6 is the highest..oh my god!!
aaron695 8y ago
Not sure what it even means, obviously if you put 100 sensors in the hottest place in the past day it'll be the top 100 hottest places recorded. All these sensors could be grouped closely together. If they are not... What does that mean? Australia is huge. ATM it's a safe bet the Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are in the Southern Hemisphere. Would that mean anything?

61 points by mrmondo 8y ago

It has been pretty bad here. This [0] might be interesting for anyone wanting to check out how anomalous these temps are against long-term averages. Apparently South Australia had 17 temperature records broken on Thursday (though I can't find the link now). [0] http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&time=latest&step=0&map=maxanom&period=daily&area=nat http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/awap/temp/index.jsp?colour=colour&...

tonny747 8y ago
20 records according to the this link https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-records-expected-to-be-broken/10745220 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/sa-heating-up-with-re...
- stock_toaster 8y ago
  49.5c (121f) is damnably hot. wow
  - kbouck 8y ago
    Given enough time, that's about hot enough to cook a piece of beef to rare.
- dwd 8y ago
  A lot of places in Victoria while they didn't break records, it was hottest day since Feb 7th, 2009. Fortunately there wasn't a repeat of that day, but the scary thing is it's still only January. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_heat_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_southeastern_Australia_he...
- baddox 8y ago
  Not to minimize the problem, but doesn’t this depend entirely on how many “records” we define and keep track of?
  - dwd 8y ago
    South Australia has rainfall and temperature records that go back 120 years or so, so there's a bit of data to compare to.
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crispinb 8y ago
We (Northern Rivers) haven't had the extremes, but weeks of above-average temps on top of drought have made it dryer here than I've ever seen. The paddocks look more like Vic than the subtropics. My local creek has dried up for the first time anyone here knows of. Potable water tanks are near empty.

viksit 8y ago

And the lowest are all in Russia and Canada. (first question I had after reading this headline). Wonder if similar records are being broken there?

xanth 8y ago

To be fair the southern hemisphere only accounts for 31% of the world's landmass and of that Australia is 20% of the total landmass in the southern hemisphere experiencing summer right now.

crispinb 8y ago
True, it's probably typical for a good proportion of S.Hem summer maxes to be in Australia. The actual values aren't typical though - many temperature records being broken, bushfires in places that haven't experienced them in the past, etc.
nraynaud 8y ago
and the southern hemisphere has a summer slightly closer to the sun than the north.

aethr 8y ago

The temperature scale on windy.com doesn't really go high enough to depict how hot it is in Australia today: https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109,3 https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109...

DrStalker 8y ago
Some weather maps added purple to Australian heat maps a few years ago to fix that lack of range.

mrmondo 8y ago

When I went to jump in the shower this morning (Melbourne) at around 7AM, it was 32deg or so, the taps in the shower were actually too hot for me to touch, I had to use a facecloth over them.

chrstphrknwtn 8y ago
Are your shower taps in direct sunlight?
- mrmondo 8y ago
  Indirect, but the light comes from a west-facing window that I've since covered in tinfoil heh.

m3nu 8y ago

In other news: "Australian coal exports hit record high"

crispinb 8y ago
the climate's always changing .. if not nice clean Aus coal exports then S.African brown .. sky is falling in lol .. it's snowing here what global warming lol .. what about Al Gore .. it hasn't warmed since 1996 .. what about the promised ice age .. (etc). Just thought we should get those out of the way.
- swampthinker 8y ago
  It's shocking how damaging Gore has been to the climate change image to deniers.
  - SturgeonsLaw 8y ago
    If it wasn't him, they'd be latching on to another strawman. As an Australian who has been living in this heatwave, and as an inhabitant of planet Earth, it's time we ignored the deniers and just got shit done. Theirs is a position borne of self interest and ignorance, and we should stop giving equal credence to a demonstrably incorrect opinion.
    - stu432 8y ago
      No credence is given to climate change deniers, credence is given to the economy, jobs and bribes (in reverse order).
    - Recurecur 8y ago
      > If it wasn't him, they'd be latching on to another strawman. He's not really a "strawman", he was one of the most visible faces promoting climate alarmism early on, and was a prominent politician. He is easily skewered due to his laughable knowledge of science, and his hypocritical lifestyle. Now there is a large collection of others who make unsupported alarmist claims, incorrectly relate weather events to global warming, and are complete hypocrites with their resource use. For instance, see the 1,500 private jets that just showed up at Davos... If you want to make a positive difference, advocate nuclear power. It's the only way to replace 100% of fossil fuels without air pollution.

markdown 8y ago

> In 2015, Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton quipped about the fate of the Pacific Islands in the face of climate change, prompting laughter from then-prime minister Tony Abbott. > "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to be… you know, have water lapping at your door," Mr Dutton said. > Mr Morrison, then the social services minister, pointed out to both men that a microphone was above them." Last week Morrison visited Fiji as Australian PM and, presumably alluding to the above exchange, the Fijian PM said to him: > "Here in Fiji, climate change is no laughing matter. From where we are sitting, we cannot imagine how the interests of any single industry can be placed above the welfare of Pacific peoples — vulnerable people in the world over." - From https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/climate-change-is-no-laughing-matter-fiji-pm-says/10724582 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/climate-change-is-no-... Hopefully now that aussies are feeling the heat, they'll elect someone who actually cares about climate change. Australia is the worlds largest exporter of coal, and all those chickens are coming home to roost.

crispinb 8y ago
The current fed government is such a laughing stock at this point, it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  >it's all but inevitable that the next one will be at least some improvement. That same thought was what kept me going through the long Howard years...How wrong I was!
  - crispinb 8y ago
    The Aus well of political disappointment does indeed seem near bottomless .. thanks for reminding me ;)
    - stevesimmons 8y ago
      ... though speaking as an Australian now living in the UK, the current state of UK politics is far worse that Australia's ever was. :(

point78 8y ago

I'd take cold over hot any day of the week, but when we are talking about extreme cold or extreme hot I'm not sure which is worse? I guess you could survive longer in extreme heat?

King-Aaron 8y ago
It would be interesting to know which is worse, but it should be pointed out that being stuck without shelter or water in the bush during these conditions will mean you'll die in a matter of hours.
princeb 8y ago
heat waves kill more people than cold snaps, for what it's worth.
FooHentai 8y ago
You can survive in extreme heat with low humidity. Once the 'wet bulb' temperature exceeds 35 degrees C, sweating is no longer effective, core temperature rises, and you die. Extremes of cold must be a different story, about how much insulation can protect core temperature. There's probably a minimum temp at which something like respiration just ceases to work. This article has some good info: https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/cold_humans.php https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/scie...
- yesenadam 8y ago
  35˚C extreme? You die? That doesn't sound right. Anecdata: There was a strange heat wave here in Sydney about 7 or 8 years ago, where for a week or two it was 35˚ (and humid) all night, every night. It was uncomfortable, sure, but not extreme heat, I wouldn't say. I've never lived in a house with air-conditioning in Australia (and I grew up somewhere hotter than Sydney, which isn't particularly hot), hardly ever used a fan, even.
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Proven 8y ago

Eh, maybe because it’s summer? Morons.

hema_n 8y ago

49.6 is the highest..oh my god!!

aaron695 8y ago

Not sure what it even means, obviously if you put 100 sensors in the hottest place in the past day it'll be the top 100 hottest places recorded. All these sensors could be grouped closely together. If they are not... What does that mean? Australia is huge. ATM it's a safe bet the Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are in the Southern Hemisphere. Would that mean anything?