Extreme heatwave across South Australia

[davidc4430]

Extreme heatwave prompts statewide 'code red' alert for most vulnerable across South Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-16/code-red-alert-issued-for-homeless-ahead-of-heatwave-in-sa/11...

[snow*jewel]

We are getting it from around Thursday 😞

[chameleon54]

Heading out to my remote farm tomorrow to babysit the sheep through the heatwave. Temps of 45 & 46 forecast for the next couple of days and culminating with 47 forecast for Friday. On the couple of other days we have had those sorts of temps, birds have actually died from the heat.

It will also undoubtedly send the rams infertile for 8 weeks. This is prime " Ram Time " to give us a April / May Lambing so anyone planning a traditional Autumn lambing is in trouble. This is starting to become a problem for sheep producers and so I have put the rams out a little bit earlier to try to address it, but then you can run into problems of no green feed for lambs and lambing in the last of the summer heat in March.

[martinw-48]

Chamo, do they have trees for shade

[davidc4430]

i know i'm getting old(er) and my memory is never that great but i cant remember having heat waves like this before xmas when growing up

they allways were after xmas, usually feb or march

[davidc4430]

10am 38c

[davewil1964]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

i know i'm getting old(er) and my memory is never that great but i cant remember having heat waves like this before xmas when growing up

they allways were after xmas, usually feb or march

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Yep.

But this is just natural variation. Nothing to do with climate change. Just like half the country burning in spring.

Nothing to see here...

[myoclon1cjerk]

I agree. The BoM has doctored all the thermometers.

[joz*garage]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

i know i'm getting old(er) and my memory is never that great but i cant remember having heat waves like this before xmas when growing up

they allways were after xmas, usually feb or march

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Climate change

We just finished our heat wave stint of 40c days in Perth - over to you

[myoclon1cjerk]

...and all the worlds climate scientists have been hypnotized by the U.N
Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing etc 😄