Australia’s southern states are scorching in extreme heat that could break temperature records in Victoria and South Australia on Tuesday.
At Ouyen and Mildura in north-west Victoria, temperatures of 49C were forecast for Tuesday afternoon. If reached, they would break the state’s all-time temperature record of 48.8C, set in Hopetoun on Black Saturday in 2009. By 1pm, temperatures of 46.2C in Ouyen and 44.8C in Mildura had been recorded.
At Ouyen and Mildura in north-west Victoria, temperatures of 49C were forecast for Tuesday afternoon. If reached, they would break the state’s all-time temperature record of 48.8C, set in Hopetoun on Black Saturday in 2009. By 1pm, temperatures of 46.2C in Ouyen and 44.8C in Mildura had been recorded.
In Adelaide, the mercury hit 40C before 9.30am on Tuesday, after overnight lows of 35C, BoM observations showed.
Extreme heat is the most common cause of weather-related hospitalisations in Australia, and kills more people than all other natural hazards combined. What does exposure to extreme heat – such as a temperature of 49C – do to the body?
it kind of sucks living in a part of the world that requires you to sit in air conditioned bubbles all day. it’s a fucking depressing way to live.
That is exactly how I felt about Texas.
And I was shocked no one thought to build or market reasonable 3rd spaces.
I always imagined thats why there were so many drunk people out and about. Because the only habitable place outside of homes were bars if you didn’t have a gym membership.
Plenty of 3rd spaces exist in Texas. You just have to pay to play. The hyper-capitalist dream is alive in the Lone Star State.
I gotta wonder how much of the decline of alcoholism in the subsequent generations boils down to affordability.
yes. everyone is inside because it’s hot, and everyone is getting drunk because that’s the only thing there is to do, and everyone is driving a car because that’s the only way to get there. if he didn’t drive then you’re waiting around for the person who drove you and you’re getting really drunk because they don’t want to leave yet. what a stupid life
And people forget wildlife don’t have AC.
We’ll be living in a dead world soon.
most of them avoid those areas, marsupials also have lower body temp than placentals.
I wonder if ACs have doom loop effect. They produce more heat than cold, so eventually you need to deal with even more heat (on a global scale), prompting even more AC use
The AC is just moving existing heat around, basically evicting it from an enclosed area.
I’ve read that it can add to the “heat island” effect of large cities, but globally I don’t think the AC’s themselves are the problem, it’s the carbon in the atmosphere that holds the heat in, as well as the fossil fuels still used broadly to power the AC’s.
Yes. Making and running AC’s contribute straight in to carbon emissions, so its a feedback loop.
I don’t have any proof, but I’d imagine AC alone would be insignificant on planet scale.
Anything short of us detonating enough nukes to light up the atmosphere.
It’s the sun’s energy getting trapped by our emissions that we need to worry about.
its an AC stupid it makes it cold!