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"Australia is on track to face its hottest August on record as a global
heating-fuelled “heat engine” brings spring and summer warmth to Australia’s
winter, experts forecast.
A Weatherzone meteorologist, Ben Domensino, said the unseasonably warm weather
was coming from a “heat engine” in Australia’s red centre, where clear skies in
the coming week would drive maximum temperatures towards 40C, more than 10C
above average, in northern South Australia, the southern Northern Territory and
western New South Wales.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting 2024’s winter to be the nation’s
fifth-warmest yet, with multiple locations threatening to break temperature
records for August.
Temperatures across the country are rising higher and earlier than usual,
putting August averages comfortably above the long-term mean.
SA could record its highest ever winter temperature, with Oodnadatta in the
state’s north forecast to crack 38C on Friday and 39C on Saturday as maximums
rise 15C above average in the surrounding region.
East coast capitals are forecast to be 8C warmer than their August average on
Sunday, with Melbourne to reach 23C and Sydney 26C.
Sydney recorded its 15th consecutive night above 10C on Friday, the longest run
of double-digit minimums in winter since 1967, and is expecting another week of
warm nights.
Brisbane is yet to face its hottest days of the month, with the BoM forecasting
a string of days above 30C from Monday.
Record high winter temperatures could be set in Victoria, where Mildura’s
Sunday forecast of 29C will nudge the current 29.9C maximum, and in Queensland,
where Birdville’s 37C forecast for Saturday and Sunday will sit just under the
state record of 38.5C.
Prof Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a researcher at the Australian National
University and the ARC centre of excellence for 21st century weather, said the
heat buildup was typical of spring and summer but was happening earlier and
more intensely as global heating made winter shorter."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
