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2009-01-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Global Warming Alert: UK having the coldest winter in thirteen years.

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-30 03:55|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Southern Australia experiencing record heatwave
Southern Australia is experiencing its worst heatwave since records began, with temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius along the south coast.

Melbourne has recorded the highest temperatures, peaking at more than 45 degrees Celsius today.

The city has now experienced a third consecutive day of temperatures above 43C for the first time since records began in 1855.

Adelaide, meanwhile, is expected to match is longest heat-wave in a century if temperatures stay above 40C until Monday.

The situation has led to a surge in heat-related illnesses and the threat of wildfires around several rural towns.

Posted by Cherelet and Tenille1095 2009-01-30 05:43|| 2009-01-30 05:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Ban Al Gore!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-30 05:52|| 2009-01-30 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Hundreds attend Global Warming protest

Posted by tipper 2009-01-30 07:35|| 2009-01-30 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 The record heat wave in southern Australia is in a relatively small area (of southern Australia). I live in Southern Australia (Perth) and we are having a cool summer by our standards. It looks like we will have the first summer in decades where the temperature doesn't reach 40C.

Posted by phil_b 2009-01-30 08:16|| 2009-01-30 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Your summer cooling trend is actually the first sign of ~~Global Warming~~ climate change Phil. The end is NEAR! I blame the Great Grape Stomp! Just ask Al Gore.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-30 08:22|| 2009-01-30 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Gaia moves in mysterious ways.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-30 09:45|| 2009-01-30 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 AlGor must be over here

Posted by Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-01-30 10:03|| 2009-01-30 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 C & T

As a former Meteorologist I would bet you are describing a macro climate event in the heat wave area caused by wind patterns persisting from a northerly direction. As the air passes over the mountains to the north of Melbourne and Adelaide it is compressed and heated even more than it was in the Outback.

We had a similar event in the San Francisco area in 07 when our winds persisted from the east.(From the Sierra Nevada mountains) SF had 100 degree weather even though it's surrounded by water below 60 degrees.

Southern California has a Global Warming event every fall and early winter, the Santa Ana winds.

The air from the high desert is initially relatively dense owing to its coolness and aridity, and thus tends to channel down the valleys and canyons in gusts which can attain hurricane force at times. As it descends, the air not only becomes drier, but also warms adiabatically by compression. The southern California coastal region gets some of its hottest weather of the year during autumn while Santa Ana winds are blowing. During Santa Ana conditions it is typically hotter along the coast than in the deserts.

If you hold the rubber hose on a bicycle pump while you fill the tire you'll have a global warming event on your fingers.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-30 10:09|| 2009-01-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

#9 we have a global warming event in Kansas every year. It is called summer.

Posted by bman 2009-01-30 12:36|| 2009-01-30 12:36|| Front Page Top

#10 And in Marquette, Michigan they have a global warming event every year also. Its called July 2nd.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-01-30 12:46|| 2009-01-30 12:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Mostly right Golf Bravo. I'm a former meteorologist too. However the "mountains" to the north of Melbourne and Adelaide aren't significant. The heat is caused by air whose trajectory is over thousands of kilometers of hot dry GAFA (Great Australian F--- All). There's a high over the Tasman Sea and a another in the Bight. Not unusual at this time of year and every few years you get a series of hot days instead of a warming to one really hot day followed by a cool change. I'm 85 miles west of Brisbane and this hasn't been a hot summer here.

Posted by Aussie Mike 2009-01-30 15:21|| 2009-01-30 15:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Good lord. It sounds like meteorologists are another major Rantburg population, along with engineers, computer jockeys of all sorts, and current/former military. Cool! (Or hot! as the case may be.)

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-30 15:58|| 2009-01-30 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 C'mon guys, catch up. It's now "climate change". Gerbil Worming was much too lucrative a racket to have it spoiled by the failure of a few lazy thermometers to climb.

Posted by Grinetch Fillmore4054 2009-01-30 17:06|| 2009-01-30 17:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Aussie Mike:

It doesn't take much elevation to cause the problem of local macro heating. When I was in Vietnam in 1969 we had a period where the temps were in excess of 130F - 54C for over a week. The low at night was 100F -38C. Our situation was that the pressure gradient was forcing air from our northwest on the Laotian plateau, Plain of Jars over us and out to the South China Sea. There were no real tall mountain ranges but more like our California Coast Range. The net/net was the wind direction plus the general downslope put us in an oven. Really tall mountains would have compounded the problem do to the addition of the adiabatic heating.

There now all the Rantburgers know how to build a watch but not have the time of day.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-30 21:05|| 2009-01-30 21:05|| Front Page Top

#15 It is now 1:30 in the afternoon in Melbourne. The current temperature is 86 and the winds are from the south at 12 miles per hour. I rest my case.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-30 21:34|| 2009-01-30 21:34|| Front Page Top

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