Extreme Temperature Diary- Friday December 29th, 2023/Main Topic: Building Heatwaves for Southern Hemisphere to Ring in 2024

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The main purpose of this ongoing blog is to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day and are archived on each prior post. I’ll refer to extreme or temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉

Main Topic: Building Heatwaves for Southern Hemisphere to Ring in 2024

Dear Diary. Summer is in full swing across the Southern Hemisphere with climate change producing heatwaves across all three main land masses of Australia, Africa and South America. Let’s take a peek at heat domes and conditions there for our main topic.

First, let’s look at Australia. An anomalously warm heat dome at or near 594 decameters will be centered over northwest Australia from now into the new year. Here is what is forecast for January 1st:

And here are some of the consequences of that heat dome:

Going into the new year South America will also be under a strong ridge of high pressure:

And some of the ramifications from that:

Across Africa, same song different dance with high 500 millibar heights over the entire continent except for South Africa:

Some of the most intense anomalous heat is located in Central Africa where we are seeing record temperatures:

I’ll be reporting on more climate related heat across the Southern Hemisphere as the summer continues there into early 2024.

Here are more “ET’s” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:

Here is some end of 2023 climatology. It has been anomalously hot across many countries:

Here is More Climate and News from Friday:

(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)

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