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?
Arizona gets hotter than that. Wimps.
(But seriously that’s really fucking hot)
i always found all those pathetic arizonans rather amusing. they like to go on and on about how much worse their heat is than anyone else’s, but i’ve done 116 in 100% humidity in texas and 120 with 0% humidity in phoenix. you could barely move in the heat in texas, but if you had to work in it you could get used to it. compared to that phoenix’s heat wave was completely unnoticeable.
but y’know, you always have to have something to hang your identity on, so go whine about everything being hotter in arizona or something.
Pshh, that’s a dry heat. Try that heat with humidity so thick you sleep in a warm puddle because the night offers no relief while feeling like the air is drowning you
I think south asia in may gets like that.
But hottest temps actually happen around 30 degrees lattitude, in season, idk what aussies are at, near there I think.
India has a weird climate though with the entire north snd east blocked by the roof of the world, so all air comes from indian ocean and south and west, backing up on mountains, and makes it super humid and just static. Same reason pollution is so bad, it just sits there instead of being pushed west with the wind.
Long story short, the hot humid thereabouts is perhaps more dangerous, especially with the air pollution mixed in.
Nah. Coastal regions are humid. Inland regions, North and Central India, are dry.
That is what I was told. By an Indian. He did not mention the center though.
But the middle of landmasses are often humid, the us south, the midwest.
The west coast has mountain range called Sahyadri running parallel.
It creates an effect called rain shadow where the coastal side is humid but the other side is dry.