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![Också från Fletcher:
"You know it's serious when a national bureau of meteorology has to add new colors to the top of its temperature scale.
The temperature forecast for next Monday by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented -- over 52C -- that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple.
[Note: Actually two new colors have been added, the purple and just above it (in preparation for worse, apparently) a hot pink. -- CD.]
Australia's highest recorded temperature is 50.7C, set in January 1960 in South Australia. The record for the hottest average day across the nation was set on Monday, at 40.3C, exceeding a 40-year-old record. "What makes this event quite exceptional is how widespread and intense it's been," said Aaron Coutts-Smith, the weather bureau's climate services manager. "We have been breaking records across all states and territories in Australia over the course of the event so far." Wildfires are raging across New South Wales and Tasmania.
In addition to wildfires, road surfaces have been melting."
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Också från Fletcher:
"You know it's serious when a national bureau of meteorology has to add new colors to the top of its temperature scale.
The temperature forecast for next Monday by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented -- over 52C -- that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple.
[Note: Actually two new colors have been added, the purple and just above it (in preparation for worse, apparently) a hot pink. -- CD.]
Australia's highest recorded temperature is 50.7C, set in January 1960 in South Australia. The record for the hottest average day across the nation was set on Monday, at 40.3C, exceeding a 40-year-old record. "What makes this event quite exceptional is how widespread and intense it's been," said Aaron Coutts-Smith, the weather bureau's climate services manager. "We have been breaking records across all states and territories in Australia over the course of the event so far." Wildfires are raging across New South Wales and Tasmania.
In addition to wildfires, road surfaces have been melting."
Crikey! Kanske lika bra att jag inte kan flytta dit...
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