THE temperatures has hit 40.8C in Adelaide today – and it will be even hotter than expected on the weekend with the forecast now for 43C on Sunday and Monday.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s 4pm forecast is for 41C on Saturday and 43C on Sunday and Monday, posing an extremely high risk of bushfires.
The temperature is not expected to drop below the mid 20s at night and there will be no real relief from the heat in Adelaide until Tuesday mid-morning, when a cool change is forecast to bring an expected top of 26C.
More than 1500 elderly and vulnerable people have received daily phone calls today as part of the Red Cross Telecross REDI program to determine how they are coping with the heat.
Red Cross SA executive director Kerry Symons said the system in which people pre-register to be called on hot days, will run until the heatwave is over.
“We saw first-hand how important the service was last November, with almost 300 people needing help during the period and six people hospitalised as a result of the calls,” she said.
“We hope to be able to prevent serious heat-related incidents in the coming days.”
The State Government has also issued a warning to all South Australians to look after themselves and the vulnerable during the current heatwave.
Acting Health Minister Jane Lomax-Smith urged those going to the Schutzenfest to remember that alcohol dehydrates you and said everyone should remember to stay rehydrated.
Families and Communities Minister Jennifer Rankine urged people to check on elderly family members and neighbours.
Fire bans across state
A total fire ban has been declared in eight of the state’s fire districts and the West Coast has been rated as an extreme danger zone.
The Mount Lofty Ranges, the Mid North, the Yorke Peninsula, the Lower South East, the Flinders, the Eastern and Lower Eyre Peninsula have all been rated as severe danger zones.
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Yeah,
well right now I’m getting shovel snow that I was never supposed to see again, so according to the Met Office.
Let me guess, record cold in the Northern Hemisphere is just weather and natural variation, a hot Australian summer is definite proof of global warming…
Hottest since 1981?
Note that there is no mention of smashing any heat records. This is normal climate conditions for this time of year, isn’t it?
Not sure why this story was selected…
Is the entire Southern Hemisphere suffering from massive heat waves in the way that the entire Northern Hemisphere is suffering from massive cold blasts?
To listen to Joe Romm as interviewed by Neil Cavuto, you’d think that is what is supposed to be going on.
Accoring to Romm, the Earth has only warmed by 1 deg. F in 100 years.
So, what’s the big deal?
1 deg F won’t stop a LIA anymore than making a big difference in the magnitude of a MegaDrought or Dust Bowl Decade. It won’t raise sea levels, but we sure can waste a lot of time & resources trying to alter the Global Climate in a display of astronomical futility.
Now this is Climate. Quite unlike Britain, Europe, Russia, China and the US, where we have only weather.
well, we all know it can’t be record cold everywhere. At least one part of the world should be experiencing hot weather. But it still doesn’t detract from the fact that Global Warming is BS.
Thank you for this article, it shows that your site is fair and committed to reporting the facts, even when it’s not something beneficial for us who do’t believe in the Global Warming debacle.
Strange days indeed! The “weather is not climate argument” is popular these days:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?prev=no&hl=en&u=http://www.cicero.uio.no/webnews/index.aspx?id=11295
If you add up the temperature readings from all parts of the globe throughout the year, you get an increasing trend in temperature. It will not stop even if we shivered our way through days here in the north.
Sure this is wishful thinking:
http://climate4you.com/GlobalTemperatures.htm#TrendDiagram%20UAH%20RSS
Honest climate scientists are rare these days…
Why is this on your website? Nothing unusual, no record. It is summer in south east Australia and this is quite normal.
Reply: Normal is the new extreme ~ctm
Fine yacht racing weather offshore. Adelaide is very dry climate. The wet month is June.
So….it’s hot during the summer? ; )
This is not inconsistent with global cooling.
and what is the “normal” temp for this period?
this is for the idiots (ie: the journalists who rarely visit this site),
It is summer in the Southern hemisphere. And 40C is not at all strange for the interior of Australia, neither is 50C.
I noted that neither the AdelaideNow piece or the news video made any mention of this being record breaking. Does anyone know how common or uncommon these kinds of temps are for this area?
If it is this hot on the cold coast of Australia, what are the (unadjusted) temps on the tropical side in Darwin, the East coast in Brisbane, and the West coast in Perth. While this weather just as the cold in the NH is weather, 43C is damn hot!
On Intellicast’s maps for forecast highs Australia is currently the hottest location on the planet right now, there doesn’t seem to be a forecast major heatwave in Africa and South America is seeing what could be expected for their Summer.
“Let me guess, record cold in the Northern Hemisphere is just weather and natural variation, a hot Australian summer is definite proof of global warming…
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Exactly.
I noted in the other thread that AMSU daily temps are still VERY high, near record level. So while we shiver in the NH, it’s GOT to be hotter then eleventybillion Hells somewhere….
When a bushfire rages through uncleared farm land, will Kevin Rudd have to give carbon credits back to the UN?
It’s called………summer.
The highest January temperature in central Adelaide1890-1980:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=023000&p_nccObsCode=40&p_month=01
And for 1980-2009:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_display_type=dataGraph&p_stn_num=023090&p_nccObsCode=40&p_month=01
Those are the sorts of temperatures we experienced when we lived in Adelaide. Its climate is of the desert’s edge/Mediterranean variety. The heat is bearable because the summer humidity is typically so low. We didn’t have air-conditioning – as long as you had a ceiling fan, you could sleep easily.
Thanks, Anthony, for including the hot with the cold.
That is a good reminder that all observations must be considered.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
sonicfrog (11:28:05) says:
From my memory of Adelaide, temperatures like that normally occur later, like late Feb.
However, last year South Eastern Australia saw similar high temp, I believe, because of blocking highs or something.