Record-setting temperatures — more typical of summer — are affecting large parts of the country.
    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      I was like ok that’s hot but for a record?? Then I realize that it says winter.

      We’re so fucked

    • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      66·
      2 months ago

      I was curious about what happens to the roads at these temperatures and turns out, they melt.

      Oddly, this article seems to say last December nearly tipped 50, so not really sure what to believe about record setting. Either way, it’s not good.

        • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Funny how I even typed December and it didn’t click in my head it was a different season.

          Writing when tired isn’t a recipe for well thought comments evidently.

      • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        December is summer for Australia.
        Because they are in the southern hemisphere their winter and summer are the opposite to seasons in europe and America.

        So last Australian SUMMER tipped 50°C.
        This WINTER it’s 41°C

      • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io
        92·
        2 months ago

        Except they don’t “melt” when properly sealed, as the article mentions. I mean, 107 is like a cool day in Phoenix or Tuscon during the summer.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          I’m guessing that they were not properly sealed because they did not expect those temperatures when they were built.

  • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    Many people seem to overlook that IT IS WINTER RIGHT NOW IN AUSTRALIA.

    41°C / 107°F WINTER WEATHER.

    That’s why this temperature is high.
    Of course it’s not that high if you compare it to phoenix or some desert in the hight of summer.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    In my current part of Aus, the weather has shifted creepily warm over the past month. It feels like the weather skipped a month.

  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3632·
    2 months ago

    If you take a look at geologic time, we’ve had huge climate swings… I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity, or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate.

    Edit

    Below is my original comment and my initial edit. I’d thought to leave the original at the top, but that appears to be a mistake as people aren’t reading the edit I made at all, just seeing the jist of the quote and probably getting annoyed - and rightfully so.

    Anyway, for posterity:

    If you take a look at geologic time, we’ve had huge climate swings… I think it’s far more likely that it’s just sunspot activity, or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate.

    Edit

    In my haste, I skipped formatting and linking in this comment after my client crashed a couple times.

    Above is a quote from renown buffoon, Ron Johnson.

    This is the original article the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal wrote after the interview, and here’s the two minute video they took of him saying it.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      312·
      2 months ago

      If you took a look at geologic time and understood it, you would be frightened with how quickly average temperatures worldwide have been increasing, which is how I know you’re full of shit and know nothing about geologic time

      • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 months ago

        You are right and I agree with you. I quickly wrote that comment and I doing so failed to get across my sarcastic quoting of Republican senator Ron Johnson. I have edited the comment with the appropriate correction.

    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 months ago

      from the article in the OP:

      The global warmth is linked to human-caused climate change and a powerful El Niño event, which ended in June.

      do give it a read. it also refers to this abnormal set of temperatures being more of a trend over the past twenty years rather than a one-off event like sunspot activities.

      i don’t quite see the point of ostriching ourselves into denying our part in climate change. all that does is absolve the large corporations that have accelerated it of any blame.

      • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t format my comment to show it was a quote from Ron Johnson as Jerboa crashes time to time when adding a link to text, and I ignored formatting altogether the third time I tried to make the comment. I’ve edited it to include what should have been there in the first place.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      No, we haven’t had huge climate swings. Show me one graph with a similar swing in temperature.

      • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        My client crashed twice when trying to add a link in to my comment, and then I’m frustration I neglected to add it when it when I wrote it the third time. I have edited the comment to reflect the fact that it’s a direct quote from a climate denying senator. Apologies.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    41·
    2 months ago

    In the desert in the dry Before the breaking of the rain The temperature in the shade Had reached a hundred and ten again

    • norimee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      In the midst of winter? I doubt it.

      This is not meant as the highest temp of the year. But its winter now down undet, its supposed to be cool.