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"Australia has matched its hottest ever reliably recorded temperature, with
Onslow airport near the remote West Australian town of Onslow registering 50.7C
(123.3F)
Prior to Thursday, the 50C-mark had only been crossed three times at a
standardised monitoring site including consecutive days in early 1960. Onslow’s
top was reached just before 2.30pm local time.
The 50.7C reading on 2 January 1960 had stood unmatched as Australia’s hottest
temperature for 62 years, with the following day almost as scorching at 50.3C,
according to Bureau of Meteorology data going back nationally to 1910.
On Thursday, Onslow was joined by at least two other WA sites in breaking 50C,
with both Roebourne airport and Mardie hitting 50.5C. Mardie had been there
once before, on 19 February 1998 – Australia’s only other 50C-plus day among
the four.
The extreme temperatures came towards the end of a searing heatwave over
north-western WA in recent days.
Stonkingly hot winds from Australia’s red centre had been building, in part as
a result of the movement across northern Australia of tropical cyclone Tiffany.
Now an ex-tropical cyclone, Tiffany dumped huge amounts of rain over northern
Queensland and the Northern Territory, and could end up steering heavy rainfall
into central and eastern Australia in coming days."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "how long before it hits 55C? 60C? maybe time to take
action on #climatecrisis, #australia…"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
