Sydney weather: Summer confirmed as city's hottest for days and nights in 157 years

[Synecdoche Trope]

Source: The Sydney Morming Herald (AU)

March 1 2017 - 4:02PM
Peter Hannam

Sydney's record-breaking weather juggernaut rolls on, with summer confirmed as the city's hottest for both days and nights over records stretching back 157 years.

The average of days and nights in the Harbour City was 2.8 degrees warmer than the norm, beating the summer of 1990-91 as Sydney's warmest, the Bureau of Meteorology said in its seasonal report.

The record warm summer included the hottest ever month, in January, and built on Sydney's hottest year set in 2016. Of the other summer months, December was the city's second-warmest and February equal-second warmest, the bureau said.

Summer was marked by "both the lack of cold during the season and several significant heatwaves", said Acacia Pepler, a bureau climatologist, noting the pattern fitted in with climate change.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/sydney-weather-summer-confirmed-as-citys-hottest-for-days-and-nights-in-157-years-20170228-gunqxk.html

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I can't remember whether it's Turnbull or Abbott who's the denier.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. It is 65 here right now, and tomorrow supposed to be 85.

"normally" it would not hit 85 till mid June.
"Normally" we have 3 months here of 70's in the spring.

Poor farmers...there is no irrigation here, since "normally" rainfall is adequate.

[Hortensis]

3. Grim. Poor Australia seems to be a bellwether

for what we might expect. The U.S. has always had more extreme weather than Europe, and the effects of climate change are also stronger.

At this time of year I always feel sad over the loss of our beautiful spring transition between winter and summer, in both our Southern California and Georgia gardens. Winter is a lot warmer but erratic cold comes and kills, while summer starts far earlier, seeming almost to run into winter cold snaps. I planted for a natural transition of new foliage and bloom that would go on for weeks. That's gone for my lifetime, but please, not forever.

One thing that genuinely scares me is learning that people and cultures are overall more conservative in hot climates. Could climate change also be changing the political climate of our planet?

[DallasNE]

2. Daffodils In Bloom, Last Week Of February In Omaha

30 years ago the early daffodils would bloom in the first week of April. Sure, they're looking beat up right now after getting hit with a 2" snowfall (now gone).

[SwissTony]

4. Just want to point out that that 2.8 increase is 2.8C

which translates to 5.04F.

Abbott was (and is) a complete waste of space. Not just on climate change, but on everything else. John Oliver's crew produced an excellent video on Abbott in their series Other Countries Presidents of The United States...

Turnbull used to be pretty decent on climate change but now seems to have fallen in with the coal lobby. Here's an article from October last year in which he argues that our coal is cleaner than other countries so it's better to pollute the atmosphere with our coal rather than to let other countries fill in the gap.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/25/coal-will-be-important-for-many-many-decades-to-come-says-turnbull

[Crowman2009]

7. BTW, remember that "Stoner Sloth" anti-weed ad?

Well someone mashed that up with the horrible Tony Abbott interview:

[SwissTony]

9. Brilliant!!

Somehow, I'd avoided seeing that. Possibly because I try to avoid anything associated with Abbott.

[Cha]

5. That's a coincidence.. I was just think about that it was

summer in Australia today.

So how hot is it in our temperatures?

Mahalo ST

[HuskyOffset]

6. it's like

satan's armpit.

[briv1016]

8. Obviously fake news. It's winter.