Old Rocks
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I guess to ask about the southern Hemisphere and take them into context to get a more global answer would be the craziest idea ever.....
LOLOLOLOLOL.....ahhh...ol' slackjawed.....clueless as ever, I see....
You do, I hope, understand that the seasons are sort of reversed in the southern hemisphere due to axial tilt, so their 'summer' happened about five to eight months ago (Dec - Feb).
Exceptional Australian Heat Wave
NASA
February 11, 2009
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For those who track their local temperatures using the Celsius scale, 40 degrees is a daunting number. In early February 2009, residents of southeastern Australia were cringing at their weather forecasts, as predictions of temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) meant that a blistering heat wave was continuing.
This map of Australia shows how the land surface temperature from January 25 to February 1 compared to the average mid-summer temperatures the continent experienced between 2000-2008. Places where temperatures were warmer than average are red, places experiencing near-normal temperatures are white, and places where temperatures were cooler than average are blue. The data were collected by the MODIS on NASA's Terra satellite. While southern Australia was scorching, a similarly large area of northern and central Australia was several degrees cooler than it was in the previous nine years. The cool anomaly across that region is probably linked to the above-average rainfall the area has received during this year's wet season.
Land surface temperature is how hot the surface of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location. From a satellite's point of view, the "surface" is whatever it sees when it looks through the atmosphere to the ground. That could be the sand on a beach, the grass on a lawn, the roof of a building, or a paved road. Thus, daytime land surface temperature is often much higher than the air temperature that is included in the daily weather report (a fact that anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a summer afternoon could verify).
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) called this heat wave "exceptional", not only for the high temperatures but for their duration. One-day records were broken in multiple cities, with temperatures in the mid-40s. In Kyancutta, South Australia, the temperature reached 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.8 degrees Fahrenheit). Many places also set records for the number of consecutive days with record-breaking heat.
Nighttime temperatures broke records, too. In their special statement on the heat wave, the BOM wrote, "On the morning of 29 January, an exceptional event also occurred in the northern suburbs of Adelaide around 3 a.m., when strong north-westerly winds mixed hot air aloft to the surface. At RAAF Edinburgh [a regional airport], the temperature rose to 41.7°C at 3:04 a.m. Such an event appears to be without known precedent in southern Australia."
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South America hit by heat wave
Herald Sun
December 30, 2010
SCORCHING summer heat in South America is cutting harvest forecasts in one of the world's key farm belts. The heat wave has helped propel crop prices to two-year highs and is now fueling concerns about tight global supplies.
With temperatures reaching into the 90s, weather is also threatening crops in southern Brazil and Uruguay, which declared a state of emergency last week for farmers in the north of the country. The region's role in world food markets means any production problems there could be felt around the world.
Ahhhh you silly people are so predictable. So cute, just like a little kitten! Not as smart as a little kitten but cute nontheless.
Now here is what the weather was like in 1908, long before man made CO2 could ever have had an impact on the world and what do we see? Why looky here it was hot all over the damn place!
This year finally broke the 1908 stretch of tempeartures in Adelaide Australia. Wow, it took 100 years of CO2 to break that record, sounds like there's a problem with that theory.
Etc. Etc. Etc. It's the weather. It gets hot, it gets cold. Only the hand wringers try and make every weather condition equate to global warming and that is as anti science as you can get. But what do you expect from religious fanatics.
Adelaide likely to break heatwave record - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Philadelphia, PA Heat Wave Kills 5, Jul 1908 | GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods
In the last 15 years we have seen heat waves that have killed tens of thousands in Western Europe and in Russia. We have seen fires from heat and drought in Australia that killed hundreds.
Flap yap all you want about the prior events, the shere scope and numbers are unprecedented. We are seeing the beginnings of the consequences of a major climate shift.