Heatwave halts Australian Open tennis tournament

[moondust]

Source: BBC

Soaring temperatures have halted the Australian Open tennis tournament, as a report warns that the country will see "hotter and longer" heatwaves.

~

Australia's Climate Council says in a report that the number of hot days in the country has "more than doubled".

2013 was recently declared Australia's hottest year on record.

~

On Tuesday, a tennis player and a ball boy fainted in the heat during the tournament. Organisers were criticised for allowing the tournament to continue.

~more~



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25743438

[Thinkingabout]

1. Someone needs to explain to Trump and his no global warming buddies there is summer

in places while we have winter and we have summer while they have winter. I know it is hard for them to understand there is high heat when we have snow on the ground.

[TDale313]

2. Been watching. The heat's just brutal.

And yeah, the way the extreme heat policy's been handled is ridiculous. They knew how hot it was gonna be. And the policy is that once it's officially declared, the set must be finished. If a match is early in a set, that can possibly mean continuing for over an hour in 105+ degree heat, and it's hotter on court. Does not make sense.

[PADemD]

3. 46 C is 114.8 F

[Violet_Crumble]

8. 114 sounds much hotter than 46 (according to Google it's snowing here)

Last edited Thu Jan 16, 2014, 05:03 AM - Edit history (1)

We're lucky here. The highest it's forecast to get in the next few days is 106. Maybe they should move the Australian Open here if they're going to insist on players playing in the intense heat...

on edit: just saw this on the google weather thing. I think they might have mixed up Fahrenheit and celcius...

[PADemD]

11. OT: What temperature scale do you use for baking?

[Violet_Crumble]

12. Celcius. My mum's still got old cookbooks with fahrenheit in them...

Being older, she can still convert to celcius in her head, but I have to go look at online conversion things to work it out

[PADemD]

13. With the heatwave you're having, solar oven sales must be soaring.

I looked into solar ovens last summer when our heatwave struck.

http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Oven-GLOBAL-SUN-OVEN/dp/B00286KQ1W

I've even seen articles on baking cookies in your car while you work. Have to try that next summer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/bake-cookies-in-hot-car_n_1661460.html

Stay safe and cool, Violet. I hope you summer season passes quickly.

[truthisfreedom]

14. For those who cannot convert using the formula F= (C X 9/5) + 32, there's a calculator at the link:

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. To top off the weather report, California is going to dry up and blow away altogether

SAN FRANCISCO -- The shore of California’s Lake Oroville hasn’t looked this way in modern history. Cracked dry mud shatters the canyon floor, and buoys rest 10 feet up the side of a shale hill. The remains of two vehicles -- crashed long ago -- rise from the mud like shipwrecks at low tide. The lake is only 36 percent full.

To the north, Lake Shasta also is only 36 percent full. Farther south in the heart of Central Valley, San Luis Reservoir is at a dismal 30 percent capacity. The story is the same at Bass Lake, Lake Tahoe and Folsom Lake, where Muslims recently held a prayer service for rain.

For California, 2013 was the driest year since the state started measuring rainfall in 1849, before it was a state, according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, or UCAR, a consortium of 75 schools. Low rainfall has shattered records in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Shasta and on up to Eugene, Ore.

And if rain doesn't fall soon, the worst may be yet to come.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/15/california-drought_n_4605146.html

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

5. In Australia right wing pundits like Andrew Bolt still try to explain it away...

And guess who owns the newspaper he works for....yes the ex Mr. Wendy Deng!!!

[moondust]

7. The "debate" gets a little more interesting--

and harder to ridicule and dismiss--when major national events have to be stopped because people are overcome by the heat.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Shit...

That map looks like Texas in August.

[Skittles]

9. I IM with a guy in Australia

a couple of days ago it was 108 degrees and he said summer had just started......that is worse than Texas

[Berlum]

10. The future is here, despite systematic Republicon lies about climate change

Free clue to RepubliBaggers: Lies don't stop reality.

[trof]

15. We have friends in Queensland.

Birds and bats are falling out of the sky, dead.
They've closed off much of the house and are living in 2 or 3 rooms which they keep at 85 F. to try and help with power outages.