Heat records fall as Sydney sizzles
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sydney is experiencing its hottest day on record, with temperatures above 45 degrees across the greater city area.
The mercury hit 45.8 degrees Celsius at Observatory Hill at 2.55pm, 0.5 above Sydney's previous hottest day in 1939.
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At least 21 people have sought help (from NSW Ambulance Service) for heat exposure, with a further 84 calls received for unconsciousness, fainting and vomiting which paramedics say can also be attributed to heat stress.
In the past 10 days, 182 people called on paramedics seeking emergency treatment for heat stress.
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-18/temperature-in-sydney-soars/4471424
Just last week, I posted an article about record temperatues; this week the all-time record has been set. For those in the U.S., this translates to 114 deg. F.
When I went out to do some banking this afternoon, I noticed that nobody at all was sitting at any of the outdoor cafes - it's too hot even to sit outside and have a cool drink.
There are bushfires currently out of control in country Victoria, which also has seen record temperatures, and in northern NSW. Mercifully, no human lives have been lost, thanks largely to people carefully following bushfire protocols, but many properties have been burnt out, and tens of thousands of animals, both wild and farm animals, have died. I've been used to regular heatwaves all my life, but this is something else.
Following on the fires and drought seen in the U.S. last summer, surely this is a huge wakeup call about climate change, and it may be one of our last chances to come to grips with it. Yet the deniers aren't even blinking.
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A kangaroo tries to escape a bushfire in Gippsland, Victoria
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Rear windshield of this ABC car in Coonabarabran, northern NSW, was shattered by the heat
No one of any intelligence any long believes the Republican LIES about this.
