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Australia: Sydney experiences its hottest day on record
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Temperatures in Sydney on Friday hit their highest levels since records began 150 years ago, after an Australian government agency warned of more frequent and intense heatwaves in the future. While a vicious cold snap has recently hit Russia and eastern Europe and the Middle East has suffered its worst winter storm in a decade, Australian firefighters were battling scores of wildfires in stifling summer heat. In Sydney, Australia's biggest city, the temperature smashed the previous hottest...
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Australia: Sydney bakes in hottest day ever
2013-01-18 07:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Australian city of Sydney is experiencing its hottest day on record, with temperatures reaching nearly 46C. A temperature of 45.8C was recorded at Observatory Hill in the city at 14:55 local time (01:55 GMT). Some areas in the wider Sydney region were even hotter, with the town of Penrith, to the west, registering a temperature of 46.5C. In Victoria state, one man has been killed by a bushfire, one of dozens raging across southern Australia. State police said the body of the man,...
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Wildfires across Australia and the US's hottest year on record: the heat that's making history
2013-01-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Confused? You have every right to be. On just one day this week, it was reported that the heatwave that has lit wildfires across Australia is so unprecedented that two new colours have had to be added to weather forecasting maps; that 2012 had been by far the hottest year on record in the United States; that the blue-chip World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the world's most urgent dangers; and that, nevertheless, the Met Office had concluded that global warming had stalled....
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NOAA: 2012 hottest & 2nd-most extreme year on record
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma It's official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just...
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By the Numbers: The Hottest Year on Record
2013-01-10 00:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: According to new data, 2012 was a chart-topping year for the United States but not in a good way. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAAs) National Climate Data Center (NCDC) recently declared 2012 to be the hottest year on record for the contiguous United States. This year shattered the previous record temperature, set in 1998, by 1.0°F. The year was also marked by 11 extreme weather events that caused more than $1 billion of damages. In a year that brought the United States...
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