Josh Burton

So easy to forget that record temperatures aren't just air temperature. If it's 40C that's one thing but if you add humidity, it's deadly.

Brutal conditions in CHINA 24/7 with heat indexes up to 55/60C and hot and humid nights as well with Tmins up to 34C.

More records hottest nights today include
Tmin 32.6 Chibi (Hubei Province)
32.0 Yueyang (Hunan Province).

Heat indexes exceed 50C even at night !

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN CENTRAL AMERICA

40.2C Choluteca
HONDURAS HOTTEST JULY DAY IN HISTORY

Temperatures up to 41C also in COLOMBIA.
This heat in the rainy season is unprecedented.
Nearly 100% of tropical countries are pulverzing every record.

EXCEPTIONAL HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST

47C in Turkey ,46C at 700m asl, 40C >1500m.
51.2C in IRAN, 50C in IRAQ with minimums >35C
IRAQ RECORDS HIGH MINS:34.2 Tel Afer,33.4C Tikrit.
Much hotter tomorrow...

Wealthy Australians outsmart Labor’s new $40bn super tax Where there’s a will, there’s a way. These are the strategies wealthy Australians plan to use to skirt the proposed new tax.

Sounds like we need to bring in a straight wealth tax then.

Articles like this just confirm that the wealthy just use super as a tax rort.

July BoM drought statement shows little change in the drought.
Soil moisture improved slightly, but water storages now below 40% in VIC & SA, 10-20% less than a year ago.
“the VIC desal plant has been buffering surface water storages supplying Melbourne & Geelong.”

www.bom.gov.au/climate/drou...

Israel Celebrates Ceasefire by Launching Missiles Into Seventeen New Countries — The Shovel "We’ve set back Vanuatu’s nuclear program by a least a decade"

Israel Celebrates Ceasefire by Launching Missiles Into Seventeen New Countries

ohhh rest in peace beautiful boy

I’m here til 3!

tomorrow will be a beautiful day!!

I also had this problem. I was adding climate data tables to various locations and including the average annual temperature (as you do) and someone had a go because I didn’t provide a source for that specific figure. It’s a mathematical equation. Literally adding and dividing. Sigh

Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig

Stun

-2.9 on 4/5/1994
The all time low was -4.0 from 23/6/2019 but even that is done now!

Padthaway’s -4.5 is now their all time record low as well, not just May. Including both sites (48 years of records). 🥶

love you!

Astonishing. I would be curious to know the time period of data at that site.

THOUSANDS OF RECORDS COMING
allover Asia, broken locally by over 5C and even close to summer all time records in Central Asia.
Be prepare for the most extreme event in world climatic history...
Near 50C in Middle East and 45c in Central Asia for weeks !
It's spring...

Albo’s Environment Minister a kick in the guts for nature – Bob Brown – Bob Brown Foundation Murray Watt’s appointment as Minister for the Environment is a kick in the guts for every nature-loving Australian, Bob Brown said today. “It is Trumpian. Watt

“It is Trumpian. Watt is Albanese’s answer to Trump’s Lee Zeldin... Watt backs native forest logging, salmon cage pollution, woodland clearance of 2 million hectares in 5 years and koala killing, as well as more global heating and coral bleaching.” -Bob Brown Foundation

During the 2023-4 El Niño, scientists were hoping the extraordinary sea temperatures would subside. They really haven’t. Now 2 = highest on record.

🚨🌍🌡📈
Using a 15-year trend, we have now officially passed 1.5°C of global warming.

All recent La Niña months are above the trendline.

Extrapolating this linear trend, we'll hit +1.75°C by 2031 and +2.0°C by 2037.
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New paper: In recent decades nearly 20% of logged areas of Victoria failed to regenerate. Climate change may be part of the reason. Mountain Ash in particular failing.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Okay okay no let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water, ChatGPT has some very serious uses that it is becoming very good at. But things like art and philosophy - should not be taken seriously when regurgitated by ChatGPT. These things are called the humanities for a reason I assume

We should treat ChatGPT the way we treated akinator

I’m being facetious. ChatGPT is very silly and funny and unserious. It shouldn’t be used for serious things and people who take it seriously are stupid

You should have to drink a glass of water for every prompt you send ChatGPT. And when you feel like you need to pee you have to piss on your computer and throw it out the window

“Now would be a particularly inauspicious time for NWS radars to fail, whether due to mechanical issues or deliberate acts, since the agency has more than 90 vacancies for the technicians that normally repair them. That number is unlikely to change soon, since a hiring freeze is in place.”

I have been worried this week about a snow trip I have planned for late July for a photoshoot - that by then there won’t even be enough around. With the ITCZ persisting southward and record positive SAM, it’s just dire.

Fuck it another one

16.1 at Paracombe, 380m ASL, east of Adelaide. Warmest May night in my eight years here.