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19.12.2019
Australia's Hottest Day


https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/18/australia-has-its-hottest-day-record-sydney-residents-brace-heat-fires-smoke/



Australia had its hottest day on record Dec. 17, with a nationally
averaged temperature of 105.6 degrees (40.9), according to the country’s Bureau
of Meteorology. This beats the old record of 104.5 degrees (40.3 Celsius) on
Jan. 7, 2013.


However, it’s a record that may not stand for long — perhaps for just 24 hours,
as forecasters anticipate it could be broken both Wednesday and Thursday eastern
time, as a searing, early-season heat wave roasts the country.


“This hot air mass is so extensive that preliminary figures show that yesterday
was the hottest day on record in Australia,” said BOM meteorologist Diana Eadie.


It’s highly unusual for a national temperature record to be broken, but to be
broken on two to three straight days is even more rare.


The heat is combining with drought conditions and burning wildfires to lead to
severe to “extreme” fire danger in parts of Victoria, South Australia and New
South Wales on Thursday local time. The extreme fire danger warning includes
metropolitan Sydney, where the heat is ramping up.


The heat is forecast to peak Friday in Adelaide, where the forecast high
temperature is 113 degrees (45 Celsius), as well as Melbourne, which is
predicted to reach 109 degrees (43 Celsius).


The BOM is also forecasting that many locations will break monthly records for
the hottest temperatures in December. In fact, some places in New South Wales
could see their hottest temperature on record for any time of the year,
particularly Saturday, according to BOM meteorologist Blair Trewin.


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-australia-experiences-hottest-day-on-record-as-heat-wave-conditions/


The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) declared its second
state of emergency in two months on Thursday as temperatures were set to soar
above 40C and nearly 100 bushfires were burning throughout the state, with
authorities concerned about fires surrounding Sydney.


The state of emergency will last seven days, running past Christmas, NSW Premier
Gladys Berejiklian said.


“The biggest concern over the next few days is the unpredictability, with
extreme wind conditions, extremely hot temperatures,” Ms. Berejiklian told a
news conference.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/19/australia-has-its-hottest-day-second-straight-day-areas-face-catastrophic-fire-conditions/


Australia is in the throes of one of its most extreme heat events,
having broken a national record for the hottest nationally averaged high
temperature on two straight days. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
reports preliminary data shows that for Dec. 18, the nationally averaged maximum
temperature was 107.4 degrees Fahrenheit (41.9 Celsius).


This beat the old record of 105.6 degrees (40.9 Celsius), which had been set
just the day before. Before this heat event, the country’s hottest day was Jan. 7, 2013, which had an average high temperature of 104.5 degrees (40.3 Celsius).


The combination of fires, a severe drought and the two record-hottest days has
created a sense that an environmental disaster is taking place in a country that
is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases based on the size of
its population.



https://OzReport.com/1576795916
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