Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939.

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 9:29:42 AM UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939.

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

What I find incredible, is how little of Australia's electricity production is renewable.

If you look here, in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Currently according to the national grid
34% wind
23% nuclear
8% biomass
Solar isn't measured centrally, but clearly would be low in December. 1.2% is the estimate @ 10:00 Solar production can often be seen as a dip in demand around noon.
These figures exclude all off grid production, many farms down here now have windmills & solar panels off grid.

Meanwhile, in Australia, with all the sun & wind they get, combined with it being a sparcely populated government
7% Wind
6% Solar
4% Hydro
are typical figures
60% Coal! (4.5% as I type in the UK)
. . and people think the USA are bad.

You wouldn't expect the Australians to be about the most environmentally unfriendly country it's possible to be.

There are now restrictions on new solar in Cornwall, as the grid can't cope with feeding the power the wrong way.
An example I'm familiar with
https://www.theoldehouse.co.uk/about...ewable-energy/
THe also have vast batteries to store energy.

Graham
Penzance

On Saturday, 4 January 2020 10:12:44 UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 9:29:42 AM UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939.

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

What I find incredible, is how little of Australia's electricity production is renewable.

If you look here, in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Currently according to the national grid
34% wind
23% nuclear
8% biomass
Solar isn't measured centrally, but clearly would be low in December. 1.2% is the estimate @ 10:00 Solar production can often be seen as a dip in demand around noon.
These figures exclude all off grid production, many farms down here now have windmills & solar panels off grid.

Meanwhile, in Australia, with all the sun & wind they get, combined with it being a sparcely populated government
7% Wind
6% Solar
4% Hydro
are typical figures
60% Coal! (4.5% as I type in the UK)
. . and people think the USA are bad.

You wouldn't expect the Australians to be about the most environmentally unfriendly country it's possible to be.

There are now restrictions on new solar in Cornwall, as the grid can't cope with feeding the power the wrong way.
An example I'm familiar with
https://www.theoldehouse.co.uk/about...ewable-energy/
THe also have vast batteries to store energy.

Graham
Penzance

I can't get my head around that coal figure either!!!

Keith (Southend)

On 04/01/2020 10:12, Graham Easterling wrote:

If you look here, in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/


Or simply https://gridwatch.co.uk/ is a little easier to read.

On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 10:12:44 AM UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 9:29:42 AM UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939.

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

What I find incredible, is how little of Australia's electricity production is renewable.

If you look here, in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Currently according to the national grid
34% wind
23% nuclear
8% biomass
Solar isn't measured centrally, but clearly would be low in December. 1.2% is the estimate @ 10:00 Solar production can often be seen as a dip in demand around noon.
These figures exclude all off grid production, many farms down here now have windmills & solar panels off grid.

Meanwhile, in Australia, with all the sun & wind they get, combined with it being a sparcely populated government
7% Wind
6% Solar
4% Hydro
are typical figures
60% Coal! (4.5% as I type in the UK)
. . and people think the USA are bad.

You wouldn't expect the Australians to be about the most environmentally unfriendly country it's possible to be.

There are now restrictions on new solar in Cornwall, as the grid can't cope with feeding the power the wrong way.
An example I'm familiar with
https://www.theoldehouse.co.uk/about...ewable-energy/
THe also have vast batteries to store energy.

Graham
Penzance

It has another right wing leader that neither believes global Warning will be a problem and supports the coal industry, despite the pollution and problems.

On Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:26:44 UTC, wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 10:12:44 AM UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 9:29:42 AM UTC, Norman Lynagh wrote:
Penrith, in the western outskirts of Sydney, recorded a max temp of
48.9° today, easily the highest temperature ever recorded in the Sydney
area. The previous highest was 47.8° at Richmond in January 1939..

Many other localities in NSW/ACT broke their all-time record max today,
including

Griffith 47.2
Narrandera 47.4
Wagga 46.0
Albury 46.1
Canberra 43.6

Is Australia on course to becoming uninhabitable by people of European
origin?

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.
https://peakdistrictweather.org
twitter: @TideswellWeathr

What I find incredible, is how little of Australia's electricity production is renewable.

If you look here, in the UK
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Currently according to the national grid
34% wind
23% nuclear
8% biomass
Solar isn't measured centrally, but clearly would be low in December. 1..2% is the estimate @ 10:00 Solar production can often be seen as a dip in demand around noon.
These figures exclude all off grid production, many farms down here now have windmills & solar panels off grid.

Meanwhile, in Australia, with all the sun & wind they get, combined with it being a sparcely populated government
7% Wind
6% Solar
4% Hydro
are typical figures
60% Coal! (4.5% as I type in the UK)
. . and people think the USA are bad.

You wouldn't expect the Australians to be about the most environmentally unfriendly country it's possible to be.

There are now restrictions on new solar in Cornwall, as the grid can't cope with feeding the power the wrong way.
An example I'm familiar with
https://www.theoldehouse.co.uk/about...ewable-energy/
THe also have vast batteries to store energy.

Graham
Penzance

It has another right wing leader that neither believes global Warning will be a problem and supports the coal industry, despite the pollution and problems.

I have no doubt these people will be swept aside in the next decade as common sense finally comes back to the world that has been vastly lacking the last decade. It's just a matter of time...

Keith (Southend)

On 04/01/2020 11:26, wrote:


It has another right wing leader that neither believes global Warning will be a problem and supports the coal industry, despite the pollution and problems.

No wonder he has been given such a hard time recently, however unlike
others he can just escape to Hawaii in order to avoid it.

Australia is of course a country well used to bush fires, they are a
natural part of the ecosystem after all.
Now we all know that no one single event can ever be blamed on global
warming alone but what is happening there at the moment is unprecedented.

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On Saturday, 4 January 2020 13:14:14 UTC, Col wrote:
On 04/01/2020 11:26, wrote:


It has another right wing leader that neither believes global Warning will be a problem and supports the coal industry, despite the pollution and problems.

No wonder he has been given such a hard time recently, however unlike
others he can just escape to Hawaii in order to avoid it.

Australia is of course a country well used to bush fires, they are a
natural part of the ecosystem after all.
Now we all know that no one single event can ever be blamed on global
warming alone but what is happening there at the moment is unprecedented.

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

The bush fire are an annual event, but this year after 3 years of drought they are unprecedented. I always thought Australian drought was associated with an El Nino event, there's not been a full blown one of these for sometime now, so what else is causing the drought?

Keith (Southend)

In article ,
says...
The bush fire are an annual event, but this year after 3 years of drought they are unprecedented. I always thought Australian drought was associated with an El Nino event, there's not been a full blown one of these for sometime now, so what else is causing the drought?

El Nino is a factor but I believe the Indian Dipole is the main driver
for Australia's rain. That has been very + for a few years now. + value
increases the rain over Africa's East coast.




--
Alan LeHun

Just to throw a little variety into this thread (without wishing to detract from the serious situation in Australia overall). At 23h UTC it is raining in Melbourne at 12C.

Source: naturally the excellent http://www.bom.gov.au/
PS..
Why can't we have a Met Office website as informative as theirs?

Julian
Molesey, Surrey.