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'Exceptional' heat in Australia topples records

2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: The extreme January heat has prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a special climate statement, with further updates planned as the scorching temperatures continue. Data for Monday is still to be fully analysed by the weather bureau, but it may be the hottest of the series and could generate a record average maximum beyond the 40.17 degrees reached on December 21, 1972. Such a result would make it six days in a row when the national average has been above 39 degrees; tomorrow is expected...

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'Dome of heat' to stretch fire services in Australia

2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: The tiny community of Drik Drik in the state`s south west has had a momentary reprieve from fires that threatened it on Monday night, Country Fire Authority deputy incident controller Andy Cusack said. Mr Cusack said the fire had burnt scrub near the front and a wind change had turned the fire back from Drik Drik. Its going to be a severe day and...we will see the potential for fires to start early in the day and, without much time at all, they become uncontrolled fires, which is the major...

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Australia: Records will keep tumbling with blistering heatwaves here to stay

2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment Health: THE heatwave that has scorched the nation since Christmas is a taste of things to come, with this week's records set to tumble again and again in the coming years, climate scientists said. The hottest average maximum temperature ever recorded across Australia - 40.33 degrees, set on Monday - might stand for only 24 hours and be eclipsed when all of Tuesday's readings come in. The previous record had stood since December 21, 1972. ''The current heatwave - in terms of its duration, its intensity...

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Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars

2013-01-08 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Global warming is turning the volume of extreme weather up, Spinal-Tap-style, to 11. The temperature forecast for next Monday by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented - over 52C - that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple. Australia's highest recorded temperature is 50.7C, set in January 1960 in South Australia. The record for the hottest average day across the nation was set on Monday, at 40.3C, exceeding a 40-year-old record....

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