The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be 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. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😜
Main Topic: Australia Braces for Its Own Horrific Fire Season After Sweltering European Summer
Dear Diary. We all know by now that the El Niño the planet is dealing with is and will be a whopper well into 2027. For Australia that means a drier and hotter summer season, probably record hot with accompanying explosive wildfires. Australian officials have looked to Europe’s record hot summer and wildfires as a preview of what might happen in their country and are trying to prepare accordingly.
I think that all of this is horrific, but it is an opportunity to see what conditions across the planet will be like in 2037, ten years from now as estimated by experts who think what the record strong El Niño will do to planetary temperature averages. We should get a preview of what the climate crisis will be like ten years from now. Also, after 2027 the planet will cool slightly, hopefully enough for countries to lick their wounds and prepare for a reality of hardships during the 2030s. The excess heat of 2026/27 will hopefully spur a faster transition towards renewables as Al Gore’s frogs (allegorically human beings) try to jump out of a pot of boiling water.
Here are some Australian details from FreeMalaysiaToday:
Australia braces for its own fire season after sweltering European summer | FMT
Australia braces for its own fire season after sweltering European summer
Australia braces for its own fire season after sweltering European summer
9/08/2026
Australia is already experiencing a strong El Nino weather event that typically brings with it hotter, drier weather, and an increased risk of wildfires.
File image of fire risk signage in the bushfire affected town of Ruffy, Victoria. (EPA Images pic) CLARENCE TOWN:
Australian firefighters say they are on alert as temperatures in the southern hemisphere begin to pick up, following a devastating fire season in Europe.
Australia is already experiencing a strong El Nino weather event that typically brings with it hotter, drier weather, and an increased risk of wildfires.
“We’re concerned this year that we’ll see increased fire risk (versus) prior years,” said Trent Curtin, head of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, the world’s largest volunteer firefighting force.
Large parts of Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent, endured sweltering summers, leaving vegetation tinder-dry and fuelling severe wildfires.
Britain had its hottest summer since records began, with Italy’s the warmest for 75 years.
“We’re seeing some extraordinary conditions in the northern hemisphere at the moment,” Curtin said.
“They’re experiencing fires that they haven’t seen for a couple of decades or maybe never seen before.”
Australia has a long history of fighting wildfires, including the 2019 to 2020 Black Summer blazes that destroyed an area the size of Turkey and killed 33 people.
Authorities frequently conduct hazard reduction burns, where sections of forest are burnt in a controlled manner to reduce the spread of wildfires should they happen.
“For this year we’re alert but not alarmed. We’re conscious of the fact that the seasonal outlook is expecting a busier than usual fire season – conditions will be quite dry, hot,” said Alex Capararo, a sector commander for the Forestry Corporation of New South Wales, which manages state-owned land, as he led a hazard reduction burn around three hours north of Sydney.
Peak fire danger season usually starts in mid-October in northern New South Wales and in December in southern parts of the state, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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 More Climate News from Tuesday:
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