Extreme Temperature Diary- Saturday January 20, 2024/ Main Topic: Good Chance That Australia Will Set Its Hottest Temperature on Record Early Next Week

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Main Topic: Good Chance That Australia Will Set Its Hottest Temperature on Record Early Next Week

Dear Diary. Obviously, the world is getting warmer because of our carbon pollution. We note how much warmer via all of the tens of thousands of reporting stations scattered across the planet. When we see all-time records reported from some of these stations that is big news, especially in bulk from historic heat waves and as a barometer for the health of our climate. One special instrument and reporting station is at Furnace Creek in Death Valley here in the United States where the reading has gotten up to 130°F (54.5.°C) recently, which was the highest reliable all-time world’s highest temp according to weather historian Christopher Burt.

A station in western Australia will make a run at the Death Valley all-time record on this coming Tuesday. It’s no wonder looking at the following meteorological guidance. At 500 millibars we see a strong heat dome forecast over the continent:

Lower down in the atmosphere here is what we see forecast at 850 millibars:

An upper-level low over northwest Australia will be funneling into western Australia compressed hot air such that we might see this:

Here are more details on this roaring hot situation from U.S. News:

Western Australia in ‘Extreme’ Heat Wave, Raising Bush Fire Risk (usnews.com)

Western Australia in ‘Extreme’ Heat Wave, Raising Bush Fire Risk

By Reuters Jan. 19, 2024, at 7:57 p.m.

A rocky outcrop holds an Aboriginal shelter of significance in the Pilbara region of Western Australia where human habitation stretches back over 60,000 years, Gudai-darri, 1,120 kilometres (695 miles) northeast of Perth, Australia, October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Melanie Burton/File hoto

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Parts of Western Australia were gripped on Saturday by an “extreme” heat-wave, raising the risk of bush fires in the vast state, the nation’s weather forecaster said.

The Bureau of Meteorology had an “extreme heat-wave warning” in place on Saturday for the remote Pilbara and Gascoyne areas of Australia’s largest state, warning temperatures there could hit high forties degrees Celsius over the weekend.

In the Pilbara mining town of Paraburdoo, about 1,500 km (930 miles) north of the state capital Perth, a maximum temperature of 47 degrees Celsius (116.6 degrees Fahrenheit) was forecast on Saturday, more than six degrees above the average January maximum, according to forecaster data. It was 42.7 C (108.8 F) there at 11:00 a.m (0300 GMT).

Australia’s highest temperature on record of 50.7 C (123.2 F) was logged at the Pilbara’s Onslow Airport on Jan. 13, 2022.

Saturday’s hot weather lifts the risk of bush fires in an already high-risk fire season amid an El Nino weather pattern, which is typically associated with extreme events such as wildfires, cyclones and droughts.

“Very hot and dry conditions combined with fresh southerly winds and a fresh to strong west to southwesterly sea breeze will lead to elevated fire dangers on Saturday,” the weather forecaster said on its website, regarding part of the Pilbara.

The warning comes after hundreds of firefighters earlier this month battled an out-of-control bush fire near Perth amid soaring temperatures, prompting evacuations.

Australia’s last two fire seasons have been subdued compared with the 2019-2020 “Black Summer” of bush fires that destroyed an area the size of Turkey, killed 33 people, 3 billion animals and trillions of invertebrates.

(Reporting by Sam McKeith in Sydney; Editing by Sandra Maler and Raju Gopalakrishnan)

More Hot Australia Notes (Latest Listed First):

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:

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(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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