If you’ve stepped outside at lunchtime in Sydney over the past few days, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was more like early summer than the beginning of winter. On each of the past 23 days, the temperature…
A spike in suicides linked to spikes in heat.
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Heatwaves and high temperatures can have a dramatic impact on people’s physical health. We only have to look at the increases in emergency department admissions during recent heatwaves to know that. But…
The Barossa in January: not always ideal cycling conditions.
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Complacency can kill. You would have to be living under a rock to be unaware that heat exposure can be deadly. Yet every year Australia – supposedly the “clever country” – endangers the lives of everyone…
Tennis fans cool off at the Australian Open in Melbourne this week.
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Just as Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 identified a temperature at which paper self-combusts, the Australian Open has just shown the world that there is a temperature at which tennis players start…
Monday’s heatwave forecast - with even worse heat predicted for the south-east this week.
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Across south-eastern Australia this morning, people are waking up to forecasts of scorching heat for the week ahead. Players and spectators heading to the Australian Open should prepare for some baking…
It’s getting hot in here: temperatures soar across inland and eastern Australia around 2pm today.
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As much of inland and eastern Australia sweats through its first heatwave of the summer, a new interactive website has been launched to track where the heat is coming from and to map past heatwaves across…
Australia has experienced its hottest September on record, as well as rewriting the records for the hottest 12-month period for the second time this year. With an average temperature of 21.95C - 2.75C…
The numbers are in: human-generated emissions increased the odds of our record-breaking summer.
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Today we released a study that shows quantitatively that anthropogenic climate change substantially increased the likelihood of the record-breaking Australian summer of 2013. Indeed, human influences on…
Daylight hours are dwindling and our first month of autumn is ending. But in many places, March felt a lot like summer. Get used to it: looking ahead, all indications are that future summers could be just…
Heat, floods and fire: it’s not just weather.
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The hottest summer on record. The hottest month on record. The hottest day ever recorded for the whole of Australia. Heatwaves, bushfires, record rainfall and floods – extreme events across the land. This…
Another summer, not quite like the other summers.
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We all know what to expect from summer in Australia. From December through March it will be hot, there will be storms and floods, and there will be bush fires. It’s been like that for as long as history…
Australia’s latest summer has been significant for weather and for climate.
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This summer hasn’t just felt hot. It’s been hot. In fact, the summer of 2012-13 is now the hottest on record. Average temperatures beat the record set in the summer of 1997-98, and daytime maximum temperatures…
Our impact on the earth has brought on a new geographical epoch – The Age of Humans.
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In response to the heatwave that set a new Australia-wide record on 7 January, when the national average maximum reached 40.33°C, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a statement that, on reflection, sounds…
Sydney’s heatwave should be coming to an end soon, said the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Sydney experienced its hottest day on record today, with temperatures rising past 46 degrees Celsius at the airport, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Dr Blair Trewin, a climatologist at the Bureau…
Australia has always had heat waves, but the current one is far from typical.
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Australia has started 2013 with a record-breaking heat wave that has lasted more than two weeks across many parts of the country. Temperatures have regularly gone above 48°C, with the highest recorded…
Acclimatising to heat is a tough gig. Since 1970, central Australian regions have warmed 1.2ᵒC and as the world continues to get warmer, increasingly common and increasingly intense heat waves will make…
More and longer heat waves are coming, so researchers are making sure our crops are ready.
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Australia broke its “hottest day” record this week, and heat waves are becoming more common in Australia. Heat waves are projected to increase in duration and intensity with global warming and climate…