Australia Summer Was Hottest On Record
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Those Australians who sweated through the last three months had already guessed it, but now weather experts have confirmed the summer just gone was the country’s hottest on record. Average temperatures Down Under came in at a sweltering 28.6°C, 1.1°C above normal. That exceeds the previous record set in the summer of 1997-98 by more than 0.1°C. A new average daytime maximum temperature record was also set at 35.7°C, or 1.4°C above normal, and 0.2°C above the 1982-83 record. It was a perfect summer for ice cream sellers and air-conditioning companies as Australians tried to avoid the baking heat. Shopping malls, cinemas and swimming pools were packed for much of the summer as city dwellers tried to escape the conditions.
Some beaches reported having to bring in extra volunteer lifeguards to help cope with the numbers trying to cool off in the sea. Aussies sweltered through non-stop searing temperatures, especially during the first three weeks of January. Those weeks saw the most extreme heat during an exceptionally widespread and prolonged heatwave. The highest temperature recorded during the heatwave was at Moomba in South Australia at a scorching 49.6°C. The figures released by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology show record temperatures were also set in two capital cities; Sydney with 45.8°C and Hobart with 41.8°C. Most of Australia saw a dry summer - despite heavy rainfall on the east coast, compounded by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald. The intense heat brought with it numerous bush fires, the worst occurring in Tasmania where around 200 homes were destroyed.
"Large parts of southern Africa recorded their hottest January on record." Hotter temperatures were also recorded in large parts of Argentina, Chile and Brazil, while temperatures in parts of Patagonia were more than 4°C above normal in January.
http://news.sky.com/story/1058574/australia-summer-was-hottest-on-record
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/ho/20130301.shtml
Those Australians who sweated through the last three months had already guessed it, but now weather experts have confirmed the summer just gone was the country’s hottest on record. Average temperatures Down Under came in at a sweltering 28.6°C, 1.1°C above normal. That exceeds the previous record set in the summer of 1997-98 by more than 0.1°C. A new average daytime maximum temperature record was also set at 35.7°C, or 1.4°C above normal, and 0.2°C above the 1982-83 record. It was a perfect summer for ice cream sellers and air-conditioning companies as Australians tried to avoid the baking heat. Shopping malls, cinemas and swimming pools were packed for much of the summer as city dwellers tried to escape the conditions.
Some beaches reported having to bring in extra volunteer lifeguards to help cope with the numbers trying to cool off in the sea. Aussies sweltered through non-stop searing temperatures, especially during the first three weeks of January. Those weeks saw the most extreme heat during an exceptionally widespread and prolonged heatwave. The highest temperature recorded during the heatwave was at Moomba in South Australia at a scorching 49.6°C. The figures released by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology show record temperatures were also set in two capital cities; Sydney with 45.8°C and Hobart with 41.8°C. Most of Australia saw a dry summer - despite heavy rainfall on the east coast, compounded by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald. The intense heat brought with it numerous bush fires, the worst occurring in Tasmania where around 200 homes were destroyed.
"Large parts of southern Africa recorded their hottest January on record." Hotter temperatures were also recorded in large parts of Argentina, Chile and Brazil, while temperatures in parts of Patagonia were more than 4°C above normal in January.
„Et nul ne se connait tant qu'il n'a pas souffert, „C'est une dure loi, mais une loi suprème, „Vieille comme le monde et la fatalité, „Qu'l nous faut du malheur regevoir le baptéme, ~Et qu'a ce triste prix tout doit étre acheté. „Les moissons pour murir out besoin de rosée, „Pour vivre et pour sentir l'homme a besoin de pleura, „La joie a pour symbole une plante brisée, „Humide encore de pluie et couverte de fleurs."
