Comments by "Adrian McLean" (@adrianmclean9195) on "American Reacts to Why Australia's Suburbs Are so HOT.." video.
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We are all in deep shit here - you just cannot keep your head buried in the sand - some of us really do understand and are acting - if Canada experienced what they experienced, just imagine what we are heading for - now that the 3rd year in a row La Nina has finished, and the beginnings of an El Nino, appear to be coming - from one extreme to the other - and the BIGGEST cause, is NOT being tackled - the complete opposite - we have more GAS and coal projects than ever in Australia and the world, and skyrocketing electricity AND gas and inflation and wages not keeping up and rents skyrocketing and houses not built for this, and you can see the perfect storm coming.
Just announced on the ABC, that 2022, was the second worst, ever, world wide insurance cost of anything ever, anywhere for our Floods and storms. A lot, were the worse that have ever occurred and some reoccurring several times in a row in the same place within as many months: eg Lismore.
Floods still occurring - some simply from river systems flowing from floods MONTHS ago, now only just getting to their end destination or mouth.
WA's Kimberley, just had it's worst ever flood disaster, that was photographed from space.
So many areas now uninsurable or too expensive insurance - leaving people in a catch 22 situation - they can't sell and move, because no one will buy, can't insure. Stay, and can't insure. How do you pay for repairs ?
Again and again.
With COVID 19 and worker and supply problems and people not able to pay rent, so they have to move, and businesses have to close because of no staff.
At the moment, in the far south, pristine NSW coast, with record tourist numbers, businesses have had to close and sell, because of no staff. Seal Rocks, in Central north coast of NSW has asked people to stay away, because infrastructure can't cope.
Beautiful unique country, but all is NOT well - divided country, becoming a class ridden country and displaced. Also cost of food and huge petrol cost makes things VERY hard for country people and farmers.
Some were just only getting over drought, bushfires and mouse plagues.
Australia can be very cruel
We do get alpine fires.
And the east coast of Tasmania can reach 40°c.
Hobart can reach 40 and has also had snow on its beaches.
America is hotter though, at 56°c in Death Valley
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We are all in deep shit here - you just cannot keep your head buried in the sand - some of us really do understand and are acting - if Canada experienced what they experienced, just imagine what we are heading for - now that the 3rd year in a row La Nina has finished, and the beginnings of an El Nino, appear to be coming - from one extreme to the other - and the BIGGEST cause, is NOT being tackled - the complete opposite - we have more GAS and coal projects than ever in Australia and the world, and skyrocketing electricity AND gas and inflation and wages not keeping up and rents skyrocketing and houses not built for this, and you can see the perfect storm coming.
Just announced on the ABC, that 2022, was the second worst, ever, world wide insurance cost of anything ever, anywhere for our Floods and storms. A lot, were the worse that have ever occurred and some reoccurring several times in a row in the same place within as many months: eg Lismore.
Floods still occurring - some simply from river systems flowing from floods MONTHS ago, now only just getting to their end destination or mouth.
WA's Kimberley, just had it's worst ever flood disaster, that was photographed from space.
So many areas now uninsurable or too expensive insurance - leaving people in a catch 22 situation - they can't sell and move, because no one will buy, can't insure. Stay, and can't insure. How do you pay for repairs ?
Again and again.
With COVID 19 and worker and supply problems and people not able to pay rent, so they have to move, and businesses have to close because of no staff.
At the moment, in the far south, pristine NSW coast, with record tourist numbers, businesses have had to close and sell, because of no staff. Seal Rocks, in Central north coast of NSW has asked people to stay away, because infrastructure can't cope.
Beautiful unique country, but all is NOT well - divided country, becoming a class ridden country and displaced. Also cost of food and huge petrol cost makes things VERY hard for country people and farmers.
Some were just only getting over drought, bushfires and mouse plagues.
Australia can be very cruel
We do get alpine fires.
And the east coast of Tasmania can reach 40°c.
Hobart can reach 40 and has also had snow on its beaches.
America is hotter though, at 56°c in Death Valley
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So, complicated to explain Australia's temps in various places.
Avalon Airport in Melbourne, on the west side of the bay, hit 48.9°c, way back in the 2000's.
If you look at the current national weather forecast map of maximum temps - on the eastern seaboard, you will notice that the highest temps, are occurring the further south you go, rather than the other way - this occurs because of general air flow from WA to the east.
With all that desert in between, building up the heat.
And if it is slow moving, it makes it hotter
It only requires a northerly to come down from the tropics, common, to then push that air down into the south east corner of Australia
The great dividing range then acts as a barrier, HOLDING or POOLING that air in the one area, days and sometimes weeks on end - hence the extended heatwaves and higher temps. So Melbourne can be slightly hotter in the summer, in the day time, consistently than Sydney
Usually a drier heat.
In the CBD, there is no relief at night as the concrete jungle radiates the day times absorbed heat back out at night.
This however, can be good in winter
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