A White Christmas
Below 500 - 1,000 meters above sea level where most people live I doubt it.
We've been having record breaking December temperatures. A few days ago the new all time December record temperature of 20.2 was announced. I'm glad Austria doesn't have temperatures as high as those in Australia -
47 C yesterday down under.
Update: Australian all time temperature record broken in Nullabor (on south coast) 49.9 C
Fasten your seat belts folks. No major rainfall expected for two months.
White Christmas Day Weather Update:
Definitely not white! 9 C, sunshine and showers, westerly breeze.
Flipping heck. Climate change is definitely here in Europe and Australia Gwil. My old terrier use to eat grass and then be sick. Always a sure sign that rain is on it's way. Shiny rocks in the distance is another sign of imminent rain.
ReplyDeleteMen in white performing strange ceremonies with cork and willow and running back and forth between sticks and one them shouting Howzat now and again had been known to bring rain, the ceremony can be long, up to five days. Some onlookers drink copious amounts of beer and fall asleep 😴
DeleteI actually believe Cricket to be a science Gwil. A little bit of cumulus nimbus and a bit of spin and it's a different story. Please God: No Rain Stop play.
DeleteAustralia gas some of the world's best cricketers but still no cumulus nimbus. It's all very mysterious Dave.
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DeleteWe are just coming to the end of the Ice Age and the rise in temperature relates to this. This is climate change as in billions of years of climate changes. There is no human activity that can intervene to stop it.
ReplyDeleteSince records began in Australia in 1910 the mean temperature has increased in small steps and is now 2 C warmer. In Sydney today’s temperature was forecasted to be 16 C above normal for time of year. There are many factors involved here some known and some unknown. Trees once grew in the Antarctic. Vienna in Central Europe stands on the shore of a former ocean. Sharks teeth are embedded in rocks near the Czech border. I published a poem about it all - the Pannonia Sea the white stones. It’s all beyond our control but I don’t like air sand water and laundry pollution for medical reasons and these things must be cleaned up. It goes without saying. Thanks Rachel.
DeleteAnd I don’t like spell checker overruling me. When I say air land and water I don’t mean sand and laundry 🧺 🦕
DeleteI have relaives in Australia and they rang me over the week end - they live far from the fires and had hardly heard of them although here in the UK they are headline news. Very odd I thought.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they’ll have New Years fireworks in Oz for the new year. TV likes to show the Sydney opera house under a pyrotechnic umbrella.
DeleteI don’t know why I said new year twice but there we are
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December over. Third hottest on record in Austria since records began in mid- 18th century.
ReplyDeleteAustralian wild fires 🔥already claim lives of 2,500,000 animals 🐭🐹🐨🐰🐱🐶🐮🐷🐸🐒🦆🐔
ReplyDelete48.9 C in Penrith, Greater Sydney - hottest place on planet Earth on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteSmoke from Oz turned a NZ glacier yellow and has now arrived in Argentina and Chile 11,000 kms away.
ReplyDeleteTwo very big fires 🔥 🔥 join together to form the much dreaded Megafire.
ReplyDeleteTotal area destroyed by this summer's fires (so far) according to orf news is an are the combined size of Slovenia and Austria (104,152 km2) . That's an area FIVE times the size of Wales.
ReplyDeleteRain in the forecast.
ReplyDeleteAsh and mud flowing into rivers. Thousands of dead fish turned to grey ‘soup’.
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