Southern Australia has seen record summer temperatures set this week.

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Perth Western Australia
Never before seen high temperatures have been recorded in South Australia, NSW and Victoria.
Highest being in Renmark, South Australia, - 49.6C, 121F
Fowler's Gap, NSW, - 49.1C, 120F
Walpeup, new record for Victoria, 48.9C, 120F
Hopetoun shared this record.
Mildura, NSW, 48.6C, 119.5F, hottest day on record
Loxton, South Australia, 48.2C, 118.7F hottest day on record
Broken Hill, NSW, 47.8C, 118F. Hottest day on record.

These extreme temperatures will hang around for a couple more days.
Bushfires in Victoria have burnt 400,000 hectares, close to 1 million acres.
130 homes have been destroyed.
Considered to be the worse bushfires since the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires which burnt more than 24 million hectares (59 million acres; 240,000 square kilometres; 93,000 square miles) destroyed over 3,000 buildings and directly killed 33 people.
 
Andamooka and Port Augusta in South Australia recorded 50C - 122F yesterday and today.
With many other places recording 49C - 120F.
Tomorrow there will be a cooling change with 32C - 90F forecast.
 
What is going on down your way @Bretrick, is probably answering what a friend of mine and I were wondering. Our Winter has been beyond strange. The question is, what does that mean for the upcoming Summer.
 
smiley said:
It means human activities - including industrials are destroying the planet
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It could, on the other hand, the current world average temp is 5c lower than the mean temp over the last 10,000 years as far as I'm aware, so we're just coming out of an ice age and heading back up into the middle of the temperature range for the planet. As such, it could just be the planet adjusting the temp to a more normal level than it has been for the last couple of hundred years. Who knows?

Either way, the temp will do what the temp will do, and nothing we can do will either slow it down or speed it up very much. The end result will still be a warmer climate than we're used to either way, and no amount of industrial activity will affect that to any noticeable degree.
 
I'm in the SE states. High temps are not unusual but over 100 would be. Then there's the concern about drought. Like so many others, my house is surrounded by woods.

I absolutely understand your concerns and suffering.
 
Bretrick said:
Many of our trees are extremely stressed. Danger this week in South Australia with very high winds predicted today.
Trees might fall; power will be disconnected with lines down. Not looking good.
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You are on the opposite side of the world, but geez, we are all in this together. It is alarming.
The threat is the same everywhere.
 
JustBonee said:
You are on the opposite side of the world, but geez, we are all in this together. It is alarming.
The threat is the same everywhere.
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Trees have been dying here for over a decade. I do not remember when it last rained here in Perth.
I had a look, half an inch fell on December 15th last year, nothing since then.
 
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