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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I was in Barbados one Sept right after a hurricane. It was dead calm, not a breeze. It was in the 40’s in the day. I was staying in my parents house with a ceiling fan in each room, no air. It got down to 33 around 3 am. Then I could sleep until the sun rose at 7 am and it got hot again. Nobody checked on anybody. It was just normal weather in the tropics. At the moment, in Canada, it is minus 17 outside and the furnace is going on every 2 to 3 minutes. That weather sounds pretty good.
Is this consistent with El Nino? From what I had heard it was a huge South American phenomenon but should have lesser effects other places? Any good docs to recommend on what happens during El Nino?
If it were not for the inaction of Australian Government to ALLOW for the clearing of the Bush of old timber and the introduction of controlled burn off’s Then the whole fire situation would not be an issue!. Just look at he Meaningfully STUPID policy of confiscation of private farms AS Carbon sinks, an not allowing farmers to clear brush from their land for Agriculture shows how far the Eugenics professor RUDD will go to!
I have friends who just spent their yearly month of vacation in Sydney. They said that the weather was unseasonably rainy. He’s a sailor who grew up there and moved to the US about fifteen years ago in his forties, so he’s pretty aware of the history of the weather in Sydney.
Time and time again tyrants have used climate to enslave the populous with need for sacrifice always given from the workers to the POWER ELITE for the sake favorable climate!.
When one understands that the ACTIVE policies of the Government of Australia are to encourage the worse affects of climate by NOT planning for acts of nature, then you reading this will truly understand how wide spread this tyranny is!.
No one lives in Adelaide anyway.
Sydney has been unusually cold and rainy this year.
Michael (12:25:48) :
And where is their lead singer, Peter Garrett now? Telling us we are all going to die from Climate Change, being the current “Minister for Environment” (& Climate Change, of course).
The highest temperature I could find (/www.wunderground.com) in all of Australia was 44.5C in Whyalla, South Australia at 1:18 PM local time. This is within the past hour of this post. The weather forecast for Whyalla is 20.5C max next Wednesday. Isn’t that sweater weather most places, especially in the summer? Shouldn’t the headline rather be “Unusual Summer Cold Snap Coming”?
Just wait for a deluge….but don´t complain:-)
Michael (12:42:21) :
“…. But that’s not the best part. The best part is, food prices will probably double and triple by then. That’s when you will see the AGW crowd change it’s tune. Don’t ask me where I got this.
Between the recent late springs and early winters, and the incredibly misguided conversion of productive farmland to growing stock for ethanol, Michael is probably right.
TanGeng (17:26:42) : El Nino it is almost a trade mark of north peruvian fishermen who named as such a warm north-south current that sometimes runs opposing the cold Humboldt´s current that runs from south to north. Now the Humboldt´s current is running as usual driven by the counter clock wise pacific anticyclone winds which run from south-north-east and there are no hot El Nino waters along the norther peruvian coasts, so there is no El Nino, though the difference between pressures in Tahiti and Darwing are negative, indicating that this differential pressure would drive an El Nino current from El Nino 3+4 area to 1+2 area (along the northern peruvian coasts) but, again, this is not happening.
However there is a hot spot around Easter Island surrounded by cold waters.
This phenomenon is singular and it is not of the “SETTLED” kind, so it deserves special attention from non-settled experts.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
Jack M. (18:15:24) :
Couldn’t help but laugh!
here is a map of the distribution of maxima in Australia on the 8th of January.
Plenty of 40C plus near the mining towns in the Kimberley in WA but Adelaide as the Capitol city of the state of South Australia gets all the media attention.
There is seasonal monsoonal activity in the Northern Territory and it looks like jet stream movement is involved in the cloud/rain/cooler temps in North Eastern Australia.
Where I live at (1964ft ,35E 149W) is on the fringe of a NW to SE movement of dry hot air below the monsoonal stream and today at 34degC is fairly typical for January.
Our heat is like Adelaide and is inland heat, full of extremes, untempered by the ocean.
So did it hit 40C today? It’s only 31C right now.
I was in Adelaide in the mid 90s – it got up to 45 in the city and 48 in Mildura. I remember it clearly because when you breathed the dry air burnt your throat. Also there were reports of birds dropping dead out of the sky. Now I wonder if those temps are still in the BOM record – or have they been adjusted out as well!
JonesII (19:07:26) :
It is the enormous hot spot centred at 45S/130W that concerns me, I may be the only one as nobody lives there 🙂
I have noticed that “normal” heat waves in Southern Australia, typically occur roughly 40 days apart, suggesting that they may be driven by Madden-Julian (M-J) waves in the tropics. The arrival of a M-J wave in Northern Australia, roughly every 40 days, sets off a surge in monsoonal rainfall which pumps vast amounts of air into the upper troposphere. The Earth’s Hadley Cell circualation pattern moves this air towards the Southern parts of Australia where it descends, compresses, drys and warms, creating a belt of high pressure systems.
This hot dry descending air tends to build up strong (stationary) high pressure systems off the SE coast of Australia which redirect hot dry surface air back over the central Australian deserts, leading to a build up the thermal heat that is stored in the air over the southern parts of Australia (especially over South Australia and Victoria). Voila! You have the conditions for a heat wave.
One double heat wave in SA and Victoria, lasting from Jan 01st – 07th and then returning on Jan 13th – 19th in 1908 killed 246 people. During the second of these heat waves, Adelaide, experienced 44-45 C temperatures for four days straight (Jan 15th through to 19th).
Of course, it must have been CAGW back then!
it’s weather
So what? It can get over 50 Celsius in the Sahara desert when it’s summer there.
To put things in perspective Adelaide had record winters rains, October was coldest month for 56 years, December temps were lower than average, the current expected four days of high temperatures is not unusual.
Yep, I’m in Murray Bridge at the moment….. I was here about a year ago at the same place doing the same thing in about the same heat….. with about the same amount of flies…..and the punters at the show tonight will drink about the same amount of beer…..
Interesting to here that it snowed at home (NZ) last night?
It snowed just before New Years Eve as well….
None of this has anything to do with global warming 🙂
I have never denied the holocaust and I’m in no way an extremist for saying that am I? (note to self read 11:32 book of Gore, New testament to find out)
Thanks to the group for letting me share this…..soon I will have finished my rehabilitation by getting baptized in a spa pool filled with green cool aid……until then, I’ll keep trying to believe in the global warming bible, readings of which can be found everyday in news papers and TV news programs.
It’s getting warmer, it’s getting warmer, shame on me for being born a scum of the earth human!
JonesII: Thanks for that info. So basically what is being said is that the El Nino is not happening – so the predictions of El Nino was a dud??? Wasn’t it half a year ago that there were stories of the 2009-2010 El Nino popping about suggesting that 2010 might be one of the hottest years on record? If the El Nino didn’t happen then it would suggest that there isn’t much chance of that then.
What would be interesting to know is what was the basis for those predictions that were made. Especially interesting to know which hypothesis were falsified and which climate models were shown to be unreliable. Of course there is potential for El Nino to still manifest. We’ll have to see what the truth actually turns out to be.
Again, thanks for the enlightenment.
Hi All,
I happen to live in Adelaide and the temp is currently 40.9 (C) There is nothing particularly special about this and neither will a couple of days at 43. The last “heat wave” we had in Nov was linked to GW by the ABC. Our less than average temps in Dec were of course ignored and I note that the BBC reminded everyone that the cold in the UK was just weather. So as one wrote of the alarmists and MSM “Hot weather is climate and cold weather is weather.” (sic)
Not too far north from here in 1980 I experienced a week where the temp did not drop below 38 (night or day) and we hit 52 in the shade. So for all that warming since 1980 a peak of 43 or even 45 is hardly worth commenting on.
Welcome to Australia. This is what we expect in summer, no big deal. On the one hand you have South Australia having normal high summer temps. On the other you have Queensland under flood waters from a normal monsoon trough.
All in all quite a comfey place to live.
Move along please, nothing to see here.
Ian
Canberra
The most continuous hot weather is when there is an upper trough from the Gulf of Carpentaria down to say Sydney. The pattern stays for a week or so, and inland NSW towns under the trough cop 47 degrees centigrade every day for a week, which is hell if you are attempting to launch foot-launched hang gliders and continually failing to get away in a thermal.