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)