Current Events > It reached 47C (117F) in Australia today

(+) Yeah! (+)

This country is going to be uninhabitable in summer in a few years

Edit: Not in the desert. In suburban areas.

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Mannnnnn! Lucky Australia :(

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Man I've been saying for awhile just wait until this shit starts happening routinely in the US.

Too bad it'll be too late then!
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Heat waves happen. Just stay indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

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Duncanwii posted...

Heat waves happen. Just stay indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

Yeah except 5 years ago it was 40C. Now it's 45C regularly.

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What can you do about it, TC?

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Wish them the best with the wild fire situation but during your summer that's still several degrees cooler than what I had to deal with in Phoenix.Do hope the fires stop but I mean...

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on top of all the poison animals, bugs and baby eating dingoes, why would anyone want to live there?

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metallica846 posted...

I have an awesome fire-sale joke but these pesky mods.

Bro, we've lost 2.7 million hectares of forest thanks to our bushfires. It'd be appreciated if you could have some tact instead of going "oh man, those meanie mods won't let me be rude :("

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I miss the days in Kuwait when it'd get to 50C+

I also think that country broke my internal thermometer so

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Boy am I glad by the time I'll return it'll be Autumn.

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Duncanwii posted...

Heat waves happen. Just stay indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

So this is how you intend to get attention now that your gf topics no longer work eh

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meanwhile I just got done shoveling snow off the sidewalk

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modena posted...

Wish them the best with the wild fire situation but during your summer that's still several degrees cooler than what I had to deal with in Phoenix.Do hope the fires stop but I mean...

Uhhhhhhhhhhh 117F is only 5F "cooler" than the highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix, period.
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Duncanwii posted...

Heat waves happen. Just stay indoors and drink plenty of fluids.

47 degrees is a new record in a lot of places.

In the 2000's, when I was a kid, Sydney was struck by a 45 degree heatwave at Christmas. The temperature would get up to around 40 degrees before and after this happened - hell, the next Christmas I spent at my nan and pop's house in the country, it rained. 45 degrees was an insane temperature to hit, and that temperature was not matched for a few years after it happened. That was a heatwave.

The last few years, we've been hitting the mid 40's every single year. 43 some years, 45 other years. But in 2019 after a steadily climbing temperature, we're seeing towns and cities face 47 degree weather. Earlier this month, Australia had a place that exceeded 50 degrees.

Our weather map is on a color scale - blue for colder temperatures, green for warm, yellow for like general, optimal Aussie tropical weather, red for 30 degrees and above (AKA the hot summer weather) - and when we go up into the 40's and 50's, the map transitions into purple for 40's, and black for 50's. When I was younger, a majority of Australia would be covered with hard red on the weather map, spiking into purple where the temperatures got really bad.

This year in 2019, that weather map was hard red around our borders, mostly dark purple coming into most of the landmass, and several spikes of black.

Mark my words - in the next five years, Australian suburbs will be facing 50 degree weather. That's 122 degrees for you yanks. This goes beyond the scope of a heatwave - we had a 45 degree heatwave in the 2000's. We've been building to this, and it is almost certainly going to be worse next year.

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I saw pics of the all smoke over there too, not a fun place to be : (

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Also Phoenix is in the middle of the fucking desert.

It's currently like 44 C in Melbourne and it's on the fucking coast. That is absolutely fucked.
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metallica846 posted...

I did have some tact.

But I know that some aussies would laugh at this joke because it's not all doom and gloom down under.

Fair enough. Full disclosure, I'm a bit ass blasted about the state of my country right now. Our firefighters have spent more time fighting fires this year than our government has spent in parliament, and our prime minister took off to Hawaii for a holiday while the country burns. That's been fun.

Another reason might be because it's hard to get to sleep. Right now, at 5PM, it's 41 degrees. At 10 pm, it'll be somewhere in the mid-30's. At its lowest during the night, it'll still be in the high 20's - and that's not even a guarantee. I've been tossing and turning a lot, and my sleep schedule is fucked.

So yeah, if I'm a bit snappy, that's why. Not trying to be an asshole, I'm just a bit touchy right now.

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Yeaaah 44 C in Melbourne is nuts. Last year's hottest was like what, 40? And even then we don't have to deal with the haze.

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Meanwhile its gonna be down to 9 degrees tonight in Anchorage alaska

I'd much prefer that to this 20 degree (Fahrenheit) weather we have here

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

I'd much prefer that to this 20 degree (Fahrenheit) weather we have here

No, you really wouldn't.
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DarkChozoGhost posted...

I'd much prefer that to this 20 degree (Fahrenheit) weather we have here

It's easy to warm up. It's impossible to cool down.

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MrMallard posted...

Bro, we've lost 2.7 million hectares of forest thanks to our bushfires. It'd be appreciated if you could have some tact instead of going "oh man, those meanie mods won't let me be rude :("

Hah tacit. You troll Americans over their mass shootings. Get roasted.

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Bio1590 posted...

Uhhhhhhhhhhh 117F is only 5F "cooler" than the highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix, period.

Thats several degrees as me and my friends saw 124 the summer of '05 .

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Kolibri X posted...

Hah tact. You troll Americans over their mass shootings. Get roasted.

y'all americans really need to do something to stop your children from dying in mass shootings though. I say harsh comments because I'm sick of hearing about teenagers getting shot to death, and a bunch of conservaturds crying out "but gun restrictions won't stop people from getting shot!"

if America doesn't do something about its gun culture, more of your children will die in mass shootings. People who hate hearing about dead kids, like me, will have to see the faces of your dead young, and when we talk about how maybe Americans should pull their heads out of their asses and do something about their gun problem, people cry that the right to a firearm is an inalienable human right and that it's any number of other factors that's the real culprit.

It'd be nice if "not getting shot to death in your own school" was an inalienable human right, but because it's more important for as many people to have access to weaponry as possible, kids are gonna keep dying and people who rally for change are going to be shut down. I'll stop being a cranky disrespectful prick about your shitty gun culture when you stop burying your children because their right to live was outweighed by some scumbag murderer's right to have a weapon.

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Kolibri X posted...

MrMallard posted...

Bro, we've lost 2.7 million hectares of forest thanks to our bushfires. It'd be appreciated if you could have some tact instead of going "oh man, those meanie mods won't let me be rude :("

Hah tact. You troll Americans over their mass shootings. Get roasted.

Mass shootings can be lessened or prevented by domestic policy. Climate change and natural disasters much less so.

modena posted...

Thats several degrees as me and my friends saw 124 the summer of '05 .

...which would be a record were it true.
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Bio1590 posted...

...which would be a record were it true.

Just like rainfall..."we got 1.3 inches of rain yesterday" meanwhile our gauge is 1". Plus sometimes NW of Suprise on the trails it would be a few degrees hotter in the sun than what Phoenix would record that day.Oh well, I saw it with my own eyes so that's enough for me.

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modena posted...

Just like rainfall..."we got 1.3 inches of rain yesterday" meanwhile our gauge is 1". Plus sometimes NW of Suprise on the trails it would be a few degrees hotter in the sun than what Phoenix would record that day.Oh well, I saw it with my own eyes so that's enough for me.

yeah...your key giving it away here is "in the sun". That's not how they measure temperature. If it's already hot enough just being "in the sun" can easily "add" another 15F+ degrees to the temperature, and being closer to the ground can add a shitton more.
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wackyteen posted...

I miss the days in Kuwait when it'd get to 50C+

I also think that country broke my internal thermometer so

how could you enjoy that temp. are you made of fire?

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pauIie posted...

how could you enjoy that temp. are you made of fire?

well i didn't necessarily enjoy it in the moment, but i missed it once it was gone.

Felt like there was a hole in my chest once it finally cooled down.

Also Kuwait summers don't drop below like 87F at any point of the day or night until like mid-September or early October

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Bio1590 posted...

No, you really wouldn't.

I absolutely would, and do

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DarkChozoGhost posted...

I absolutely would, and do

Yeah no lol

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I think people legitimately don't understand heat waves and also don't understand that air conditioning isn't as ubiquitous in some of these places in Australia that they think it is.
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Fuckin brutal dude. My last summer in Southern California had a heatwave that hit 116F one day. Literally painful to be outside even in the shade.

Hope y'all get relief soon

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Bio1590 posted...

yeah...your key giving it away here is "in the sun". That's not how they measure temperature. If it's already hot enough just being "in the sun" can easily "add" another 15F+ degrees to the temperature, and being closer to the ground can add a shitton more.

Well yeah.I dont have an argument here,just saying what I saw.Anyways hope the fires subside.

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This country is fucked

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TreyFlowers posted...

This country is fucked

RIP Koala's. we love the antics of them climbing up people's legs and screaming.
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