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Southeastern Europe Devastated By Wildfires
Southeastern Europe Devastated By Wildfires A dangerous heat wave is ravaging parts of southeastern Europe resulting in wildfires across Turkey, Greece, and Italy, according to VOA News. Firefighters across the European Union arrived in Turkey on Monday. The wildfires have burned for at least one week as political opposition mounts against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his sluggish […]
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat
Christmas Tree Farms Scorched In Oregon Amid Record Heat Oregon’s record-breaking heat waves and raging wildfires are set to dent Christmas tree crop output, resulting in supply constraints that may send prices skyrocketing come December. According to Reuters, who spoke with multiple Christmas tree farm operators in Oregon, one of the top Christmas tree producing states, […]
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom Amid another heat wave across the Western half of the US, California issued a stage-2 power-grid emergency alert Friday and urged customers to conserve power as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. The state’s grid operator, California Independent System Operator (ISO), issued the alert on Friday, […]
7 Inexpensive Ways To Cool Off Without Air Conditioning!
7 Inexpensive Ways To Cool Off Without Air Conditioning! With the hottest days of summer quickly approaching for most of us, it’s important to know how to stay cool, especially when you’re working outside and doing those homestead chores. It’s really easy to get hot but here are a few inexpensive ways to stay cool […]
It’s the Volatility – not the Temperature!
It’s the Volatility – not the Temperature! QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, in relating your comments on weather and how the winters will spike to record cold and then the summers will spike to record highs, is this the same as a panic cycle in markets? HC ANSWER: Yes. Our computer looks at the weather the same as it […]
As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs
As Midwest Freezes, Aussie Heatwave Reaches Record Highs While Midwest America hunkers down for the coldest temperatures in a generation, temperature records have also tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on record. Life-threatening cold is sweeping across Chicago… As Australians face animal culls, mass fish deaths across the nation, roads […]
Temps To Hit 110 Degrees – Officials Warn “Stay Inside” As Holiday Heat Wave Hammers East Coast
Temps To Hit 110 Degrees – Officials Warn “Stay Inside” As Holiday Heat Wave Hammers East Coast Just in time for American consumers to be “held hostage” by high energy prices as the WTI front-month contract eclipses $75 for the first time in three-and-a-half years, meteorologists are forecasting a heat wave that could drive temperatures […]
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan?
Australia’s ‘deadliest natural hazard’: what’s your heatwave plan? Heatwaves are Australia’s deadliest natural hazard, but a recent survey has found that many vulnerable people do not have plans to cope with extreme heat. Working with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre and the Bureau of Meteorology, my colleagues and I surveyed 250 residents […]
What we learned about the climate system in 2017 that should send shivers down the spines of policy makers
What we learned about the climate system in 2017 that should send shivers down the spines of policy makers Much of what happened in 2017 was predictable: news of climate extremes became, how can I put it … almost the norm. There was record-breaking heat on several continents, California’s biggest wildfire (extraordinarily in the middle […]
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees
This was Sydney before “Climate Change” hit — fifty degrees: Jan, 12, 1939, The Northern Star Penrith may have recorded 47.3C for at least one-second this week, but Windsor is only 23 km north-east of Penrith, and on January 13th, 1939, it recorded 122F or 50.5C with an old fashioned liquid thermometer, not a modern […]
Mortal Mugginess
Mortal Mugginess Extreme Heat Stress in Florida and in the Persian Gulf A spate of new research warns of lethally hot, humid weather in many regions by the end of this century- weather in which it would be dangerous even to walk outside, or turn off the air conditioning. These are very long range projections, […]
BBC News – Australia sweats over extreme hot weather
BBC News – Australia sweats over extreme hot weather. Australia has always suffered from bouts of extreme hot weather but the number and intensity of heatwaves is on the rise, prompting a rethink of how the country lives, works and plays in the sun. Some like it hot, but the 13-day stretch with temperatures exceeding […]
