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These increasingly extreme weather events are certainly a worrying trend.
Posted by: milo | January 8, 2014 at 06:01 PM
Milo, this is not extreme, is is WELL within normal known weather parameters, and is in fact very similar to the weather in this area during the 50's and 60's while I was growing up there. It has just been warmer for the last 40 odd years and the current crop raised during this time consider it extreme and abnormal while it is actually now closer to the long term average reality.
Posted by: Jim Witt | January 9, 2014 at 06:41 PM
The poor frozen bird looks to be a Northern Cardinal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cardinal
Well Australia can do better than that. Maybe the Poms are overstating the case!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10558183/100000-bats-fall-dead-from-the-sky-during-a-heatwave-in-Australia.html
And all because of :
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/aus/
At least we now have a new name in the Climate Change lexicon "Polar Vortex".
My suspicion (total bozo amateur kind) is that the "wobble" in the Polar Vortex is as much about the change in shape of the north polar ice cap as the reduction in its size.
Posted by: AlterEgo | January 9, 2014 at 07:38 PM
Reposted clear of the Ad!
The poor frozen bird looks to be a Northern Cardinal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cardinal
Well Australia can do better than that. Maybe the Poms are overstating the case!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10558183/100000-bats-fall-dead-from-the-sky-during-a-heatwave-in-Australia.html
And all because of :
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/annual/aus/
At least we now have a new name in the Climate Change lexicon "Polar Vortex".
My suspicion (total bozo amateur kind) is that the "wobble" in the Polar Vortex is as much about the change in shape of the north polar ice cap as the reduction in its size.
Posted by: AlterEgo | January 9, 2014 at 07:40 PM
What's even worse, my prized Dicksonia Antarctica has had all it's new croziers burnt off due to the heat.
the plant has survived and no doubt new croziers will appear later on.
Posted by: AlterEgo | January 9, 2014 at 08:50 PM
Brutal, life-threatening heat wave descended over Australia.
Posted by: SignedIn | January 15, 2014 at 01:02 AM