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Perth, Australia (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Mumbai, India (Courtesy of Wikipedia)MAJOR HEAT ON INDIA’S WEST COAST WHILST MOST OF ASIAN CONTINENT AND EVEN NORTHERN INDIA REMAINS COLD IN THE DEPTHS OF WINTER
Just yesterday Mr Kapadia, a fellow blog writter from Munbai, India wrote about the heat their have been experiencing whilst to his north it has been bone-chillingly cold over northeast Asia. A continent so diverse in geography it also displays maximum contrasting extremes.
Temperatures on India’s west coast has been reeling in roasting heat and so warm, that it’s experiencing days “warmer” than what they would typically enjoy during the peak of their summer which is May.
Here is what Rajesh write’s..
Mumbai 2nd. Warmest City:
For many, in the cold and frozen Northern Hemisphere, this heading, and the blog may be a “warm greeting” from me. I put forward a blog of a “Heat Wave”. Yes, a “Heat Wave” with tempearutures 6c above normal in Mumbai Colaba. In fact, all along the west coast of India on 16th, we see, in the map attached, a series of day temperatures in the 34/35c range, with a top of 35.5c at Ratnagiri.
Incidently, 35.5c at Ratnagiri befits the “heat Wave” title, as it turned out to be the highest day temperature in the entire Norhtern Hemisphere yesterday, 16th. jan.And Mumbai turned up being the second warmest city in the Hemisphere on the16th. !! Beating all traditional “hot spots”.It is too unusual for Mumbai (Colaba) though. Last year, 2009, too recorded a high of 36.3 on 24th. January. And, it was 36.2 on 31st. Jan in 2007 also.Mumbai is a contrasting and Topsy Turvy city, temperature wise. The normal high for the peak summer, in May is 33c. And here we record a day warmer than a normal summer day. On Jan 16th, in peak winter, the thermometer reads 35c!! But, in May, with the temperature at 33c, and a strong westerly breeze, the humidity would be 80-85%. Making it extremely uncomfortable. While now, in January, with dry easterlies blowing the high to 35c, the humidity is 30-35%.
The highest ever for Mumbai (Colaba) for Jan was 37.0 in 1991, and for Mumbai Santa Cruz it was 37.4 on 16th. Jan 2006.
Will it touch the all time high this year ?? Well, with 1.5c behind, seems a bit difficult. But, if the easterlies which are the reason behind the coastal heat, do continue for a couple of days more, it can touch 36c, at the most. And, I do not see the winds veering back to the northerly direction till Tuesday. Mumbai has not seen much of its normal temperatures this year. As the diagram of the previous 30 days shows, much of the period is in the “red”. And only on a few days it has gone into the :blue”.
Now in comparison, the North India belt for the period, is another extreme.The region has been reeling under cold day conditions the last 25 days. Take a similar diagram for Delhi, and in sharp contrast, we see a major portion in blue, mainly due to the below normal days, below by as much as 11c in places.
AUSTRALIA SWEATS IN BRUTAL HEAT
WARMEST NIGHT IN 100 YEARS FOR MELBOURNE, PERTH ENDURES HOTTEST SUMMER ON RECORD?
AC’s have been working overtime across Australia as they endure unusually hot conditions, unusual even for them. Melbourne seems to have experienced the most remarkable feature of this heat event as they experienced their warmest night in some 100 years as the overnight temperature remained at a rather steamy 34C. (93F) during the overnight and a low of 32C (90F) ties the hottest night on record there.
Perth on the Western Australia coast suffered it’s hottest January day yesterday in 19 years with a sweltering 109 degrees or 43 Celsius. At 5.08am Champion Lakes WA was already at 87 degrees which was warmer than Marble Bar, the country’s hottest town. The hottest spot within the Greater Perth area was Gosnells which touched a toasty 111 degrees. Many all-time January records were smashed across the vast territory of Western Australia.
By PerthNow.com
“Perth is experiencing the warmest summer on record with a average maximum temperature of 31.6C so far – on par with the summers of 1931 – 1932 and 1977 – 1978.”
Perth’s average summer maximum temperature is normally 30.2C.
Click below to read the full article.
So despite seemingly continuous discussion of how cold it’s been across the Northern Hemisphere, there is still plenty of heat elsewhere. Where extreme cold developes, so too does extreme heat somewhere else. Earth’s energy budget balancing itself out. We have indeed seen the switch to a positive Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation and little cold covers the hemisphere landmasses but over the next few weeks, cold will be reloading over the North Pole and another wave of cold looms for those places that have endured major cold between Dec 25 through January 10.
Enjoy these warmer days as they are numbered. However, a note of comfort, the days of winter are also numbered as we cross into the second half of winter, so remember, when the cold hits again bringing more days below freezing and bone-chilling nights, winter days are becoming less.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
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>I'm glad that global warming evidence is fighting back. A cold blip in every 30 years of relative warmth counts for little.
Keep up the good blogging.