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@antipodean I daresay he likes getting invitations to speak at conferences.
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Seems like the place for it. It just crossed 40 degrees here!! it's only 11am which means it might get hotter.
Outside is like an oven!!
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@mariner4life said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Seems like the place for it. It just crossed 40 degrees here!! it's only 11am which means it might get hotter.
Outside is like an oven!!
You're in Cairns? And it's hot?
That's like saying it is sometimes really wet and puggy in the Waikato.
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Fair point
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@mariner4life Someone I know is a teacher up in central QLD and they're about to roll the last week of November above 40C.
Kind of fucked.
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@nta said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
@mariner4life Someone I know is a teacher up in central QLD and they're about to roll the last week of November above 40C.
Kind of fucked
And it has been colder and wetter than normal in NZ . But luckily climate CHANGE covers everything. Handy!
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And it's the highest ever recorded temperature at Cairns Airport, 42.6
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Time for the humidity to kick in.
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Lots of cycles in weather:
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/el-niño-la-niña-update-june-2018
Annual, decade, even century, CHANGEs are common. That doesn't mean that we aren't seeing a long term shift that could make life a bit difficult for grand kids of this generation (or sooner). Or we can just ignore it and do nothing - I chose not to have kids - don't give a shit- but have still spent my life studying the weather.
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@snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Lots of cycles in weather:
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/el-niño-la-niña-update-june-2018
Annual, decade, even century, CHANGEs are common. That doesn't mean that we aren't seeing a long term shift that could make life a bit difficult for grand kids of this generation (or sooner). Or we can just ignore it and do nothing - I chose not to have kids - don't give a shit- but have still spent my life studying the weather.
Much appreciated...
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@snowy said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
My pleasure.
You made the world a better place.
So did i of course
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Of interest, further to @mariner4life 's post I received this communique today (FYI, this is from the Fraser Coast Regional Council, in the Wide Bay Burnett forecast district. Also Capricornia is around Rockhampton 4 hours north of here, and the place where they're having the massive fires currently, near Baffle Creek, is about an hour, maybe hour and a half north)
Subject: Fraser Coast LDMG Status - ALERT
Good Morning All
After a State wide teleconference this morning, and based on the information provided in that teleconference the Fraser Coast LDMG has moved its status to ALERT, Effectively immediately until further notice. This has been confirmed by the LDC and the Chair of the LDMG.
Queensland is currently being hit by unprecedented fire weather and heatwave conditions. These conditions are similar to what occurs in southern states and has not been seen in QLD before. So significant that the SDCC will release approximately 750k emergency alerts to the Capricorn Region warning of the danger now. Additional Emergency Alerts may be issued in any location (including ours) without prior notice.
Heatwave impacts will be felt from today through to at least mid next week in our region.
· Severe Fire Danger is forecast for the following forecast districts: Central Coast and Whitsundays, Central Highlands and Coalfields, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, Wide Bay and Burnett and Southeast Coast
· The Rural Fire Service Queensland advises you to:
- Action your Bushfire Survival Plan now.
- Monitor the fire and weather situation through your local radio station, www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au and www.bom.gov.au.
- Call 000 (Triple Zero) in an emergency.
· For information on preparing for bushfires go to www.ruralfire.qld.gov.au.
Heatwaves are a silent killer, and I ask that you be vigilant of your family, friends, neighbours and of course pets.
There is a Fire Ban in place for the Wide bay Area, see the attached declaration
Please share this information to your networks as a matter of urgency.
A separate email maybe issued to you for further information or instruction.
Stay tuned to the usual reporting channels
Report all emergencies to 000
Brendan Guy
Disaster Planning Coordinator
Disaster Management
etcThe interesting bit for me was the bit in bold. Confirming Mariner's impression that the current weather is a little out of the ordinary.
The weather they talk about related to extreme fire danger is usually hot (not unusual for Qld, but we overheat in the mid 30s, the fire danger in the southern states is usually over 40 with the hot dry air off the desert), with very very low humidity (not at all usual for Qld, as mentioned down south they get the hot dry air off the desert, we get warm humid air from the tropics), and high winds.
Also worth noting that the BOM ( Bureau of Meteorology) invented an additional level of fire danger called "Catastrophic" after the Vic fires about 10 years ago.
Having said that weather here was okish today. Low 30s and quite humid, but definitely had worse. Bit of cloud cover helped. But went through to Maryborough (50kms inland) and nearly collapsed stepping out of the car! Then got caught in fairly decent thunderstorm. So the rain from that cell would have helped dampen things. Had lightning strike about 20m away. Quite ... errr ... exhilarating...
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This is easily the hottest week i have ever experienced in Cairns. It's fucked. Hot and dry and windy. Storms in the late arvo with some very impressive lightening, but not enough rain to drop the temps.
Aircon for the win
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@nta said in Climate Change #3 & Other Environmental Issues:
Some fucking awful fire action from the footage.
Wonder what summer holds? 😐
For Qld this time of year is bushfire season, as opposed to late summer down your way, as this is the warm dry bit and it usually gets wetter as after Christmas.
Probably means we'll get smacked with a couple of Cat 5 cyclones reaching south to us ...
Mind you didn't "they" recently adopt a Cat 6 as there are more, higher intensity cyclones/typhoons/hurricanes? So probably one of them.
Don't know what it's going to mean for you lot down south Nick.
The other "interesting" weather event so far this storm season was the massive cell thst smashed up Tansey (little village couple of hours SW from here).
We're used to thunderstorm warnings ("high winds and large hailstones ... seek shelter, park car under cover" etc) and keep an eye on the BOM radar. But this was next level.
Had been predicted all day and eventually enventuated with a vengeance, complete with tornados.
Everyone with a cell phone who was in or near the path of the cell got SMS message as follows:
Emergency. QFES VERY DANGEROUS STORM. likely impact Hervey Bay, Maryborough & Tiaro Tornados possible Immediately Seek shelter Avoid travel. Info www.bom.gov.au
Never had that before.
So called work early and tidied the backyard of debris, chatting with Mrs Boo as watching the clouds build up she said "Apparently if it looks green then you're really in trouble."
I looked at cloud: "That looks green."
By that stage the storm's intensity had dissipated slightly. Were still patches of black on the BOM radar (highest intensity rain) though.
Msin part of cell did slip just south of us - got a bit of wind, rain, bluff and bluster as the edge of the storm went over us, but that level of warning and intensity was unprecedented in my experience.
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Met Service forecast for Akl has rain for the next 8 days. It has rained for the last 10.
I hate our fucking climate.
I genuinely like a hot sticky tropical climate. Also a hot desert climate. Or a cold dry climate. But I loathe wet with a temperature in the teens i.e. Akl for 300 days p.a. Global warming for Akl seems to be more of a global wetting
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Stuff has banned climate change deniers from commenting, thus comment praising the action and saying it’s not censorship comes from a wannabe labour mp
“It is not a matter of censorship. It is a matter of ignoring their views because they are not reality based and are a waste of time.”
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