The Weather here

[Keith at Tregenna]

JUST RECEIVED FROM OZ RELLIES.

Welcome to hell on Earth in Australia...

This will be the worst heatwave in a while!

Over the next 4 to 5 days South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland are expected to see maximums into the mid to high 40s with all Capitals seeing temperatures of 6-11c above average!

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Les\Vernon
Down here in cool Cooma we have had a few days of summer heat around 35% but mainly it's been around 20 to 28, I still have a doona on the bed; my wife took hers off replace it with a blanket but last night did a switcheroo again and put her doona back on, today about 16 with light rain, all this should be coming your way as it is a Southerly. If it wasn't for Tv would never know we had had a heat wave.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Here in Melbourne we have had average temps for the time of year, February is normally our hottest month, but so far this summer the highest temp has been 39, we often get about four or fiver at 40 plus. But Sunday night we had rain, and I mean rain. One of my 2500 litre tanks, dry at the time, was overflowing in 20 minutes of the rain starting, the gutters could not take the water away quick enough so we had waterfalls all around the house. But not the first time that has occurred.

[Doc Vernon]

Rain rain and more rain here too John!
Floods all over Water tanks all overflowing on places that have them.
Next door they have three huge ones! Like a River coming over the top mate!
Cheers

[Captain Kong]

You should stand under the overflowing tank, and have a shower, and save water.
Brian

[Richard Quartermaine]

It'll good for the garden too if you just do that.
Richard

[Doc Vernon]

Here we go again!
From Yesterday and the day before nice and cool with lots of Rain to Today forecasts of some 38 degrees in the City,31 here in Blackheath,and more to come too for the next three to four days Temps predicted to go up to high Mid Forties and could well be the Hottest yet to come this Month! Whew!!!!!
Think I will go next door and hide in one of the Water Tanks! LOL
Cheers

Climate!!!!!!!! Its gone Troppo!!!!

[Rodney Mills]

Arctic heatwave could break records

Temperatures at the North Pole could be up to 20 degrees higher in what scientists say is a record-breaking heatwave.
Climate scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made climate change.

Temperatures were 5C higher than average. It follows a summer during which Arctic sea ice reached the second-lowest extent ever recorded by satellites.

Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute told BBC News that in pre-industrial times "a heatwave like this would have been extremely rare - we would expect it to occur about every 1,000 years".

Dr Otto added that scientists are "very confident" that the weather patterns were linked to anthropogenic climate change.
"We have used several different climate modelling approaches and observations," she told BBC News.

"And in all our methods, we find the same thing; we cannot model a heatwave like this without the anthropogenic signal."

The warm air from the North Atlantic is forecast to flow all the way to the North Pole via Spitsbergen, giving rise to clouds that prevent heat from escaping.

And, as Dr Otto explained to BBC News, the reduction in sea ice is contributing to this "feedback loop".
"If the globe is warming, then the sea ice and ice on land [shrinks] then the darker water and land is exposed," she said.
"Then the sunlight is absorbed rather than reflected as it would be by the ice."

Forecasting models show that there is about a 2% chance of a heatwave event occurring every year.

"But if temperatures continue to increase further as they are now," said Dr Otto, "we would expect a heatwave like this to occur every other year and that will be a huge stress on the ecosystem."

Dr Thorsten Markus, chief of NASA's Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, said the heatwave was "very, very unusual. The eerie thing is that we saw something quite similar almost exactly a year ago," he told BBC News.

The freeze and thaw conditions are already making it difficult for reindeer to find food - as the moss they feed on is covered by hard ice, rather than soft, penetrable snow.

[Doc Vernon]

There you go Rodney

Climate Change for sure !
Not normal at all!

Although I do hear that the Sun is getting closer to Earth!!
Soon they will have to be making Sun Tuff Clothing with cool insulation LOL

[Les Woodard]

Was listening to the radio (yep no bloody phone or box) where some pro was talking about all this and hit upon a subject that rang true with my way of thinking. We are being so cruel to future generations by not letting mankind evolve naturally. Because we have become so attached to the air conditioning during summer we are stopping the evolutional process that would adapt to weather changes. Of course the next generation would also suffer but it seems that our great great grand kids would be popping out of the womb more adept to the heat we suffer from now. For me this makes so much sense. I recall high temps years ago where they where that way for weeks and guess what? We adapted to it or got used to it. Recall working up in the tropics on contract doing steel erection and one got used to sweating and still managed a good nights sleep with only a small fan between two of us in the donga as there was bugger all air conditioning then. How many of us would drag ourselves up on deck because of the heat in the cabin and we survived did we not. Same again no airconditioning then either. Could this just be a natural evelutionaly change which we are not allowing through our own interest in keeping cool.