A story about Tasmania’s lost forests of the sea … https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/On-land-Australia-s-rising-heat-is-14934407.php#
Monthly archives: December 2019
Tasmania has some beautiful white beaches, and it looks like this Monday will be a great day to enjoy them. A 38C forecast for Hobart (EDIT: Now 40C) may bring even higher temperatures to other parts of Tasmania. Note how the south and east of Tasmania have the higher fire […]
Beach Day
The image above is bushfire smoke, presumably mixed with rain, on BOM’s Sydney rain radar today. Meanwhile, South Australia went from almost no fires on Thursday to more than 40,000 hectares burned in the space of a day, much of it being fast-moving grass fire. The fire came as 40C+ […]
Melting roads
It is perhaps surprising that the states with Australia’s two driest capital cities, being Tasmania (Hobart) and South Australia (Adelaide), were experiencing the least number of bushfires as Australian heat records fell in late December 2019. However, when the fires started outside of Adelaide they moved fast. (EDIT: By December […]
Dry city of Hobart
The image depicts today’s temperatures across much of South Australia at 3.30pm, the data compiled from today’s BOM observations. You wouldn’t want to be a black crow out in the SA sun. Adelaide’s official record is 46C from January 24 this year, but Enjoy Tasmania spotted a 47.7C recorded at […]
Good reason to live in Tasmania
It was a 35C Hobart forecast that saw us hit 40C in the upper Huon last year, and shortly after that the wallabies started eating things they hadn’t eaten before. Great weather to sit in one of Tassie’s many cool mountain streams, or head to one of the many magnificent […]