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Melbourne's record run of warm days

Posted by: 3AW Radio | 19 March, 2010 - 9:07 AM
Melbourne is sweltering as the temperature goes above 40

PLAYING NOW: 3AW's Neil Mitchell investigates why Melbourne is having such a long stretch of warmer weather.

REPORT (Adam Morton): Melbourne's temperature has topped 20 degrees for the past 100 days straight, the longest stretch of its type in more than 150 years of measurement.

Yesterday's maximum of 31 degrees continued a run of 20-plus degree days that began on December 9 last year.

It has smashed the record of 78 days with a maximum of more than 20 degrees in the summer of December 2000-01.

The Bureau of Meteorology's head of climate analysis and prediction, David Jones, said forecasts suggested the string of days warmer than 20 degrees could extend for at least another seven days.

He said it was part of a longer warm period across the state extending back to last winter.

''The whole of Australia has been exceptionally warm, and the mean temperature across Victoria over the past nine months has been the warmest on record,'' Dr Jones said.

''It continues this storyline of a planet that continues to warm.''

The British Met Office has predicted that it was more likely than not that 2010 would be the world's hottest year on record due to global warming linked to greenhouse gas emissions and a warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean due to El Nino.

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Blog comments Your Say

  • this happened in 2000, so what was blamed then? nothing,
    now today its global warming,climate change,cows farting too much,people wanting to be comfortable in their homes....climate change is a natural occurrence, just look at Europe with the cold,more scaremongering to come...............

    michael Monday 22 March, 2010 - 7:21 AM

  • Please, no one be foolish enough to suggest our past summer "was a long,hot summer"

    How many days over 40 in February?

    Neil you are not flirting with the "Global Warming" (if its a hot day) and "Climate Change (if its cool or rains)scaremongerers are you?

    Is there pressure for you to do so?

    Joe Logan Friday 19 March, 2010 - 7:32 PM

  • short memory

    col Friday 19 March, 2010 - 1:26 PM

  • Ever since Andrew Bolt disappeared from the breakfast show Global Warming seems a lot more credible. Thank goodness for short term memory loss. :-p

    Mylene Friday 19 March, 2010 - 10:43 AM

  • Well we have just had Summer, why are we so suprised by warm weather???
    Is this just a bit more fuel for the global warming climate change scare mongers.

    david Friday 19 March, 2010 - 9:57 AM

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