Punishing Cold Breaks 167-Year-Old Records In Australia, + An...

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    Punishing Cold Breaks 167-Year-Old Records In Australia, + An Early Arctic Freeze Traps 20+ Ships In Unusually Thick Sea Ice

    PUNISHING COLD BREAKS 167-YEAR-OLD RECORDS ACROSS AUSTRALIA

    The seasons have gone “topsy-turvy” down under as a blistering Polar front sweeps the vast majority of Australia, just two weeks out from summer.
    Much of the continent is suffering punishing temperate departures of 8-18C below the seasonal norm:


    The exceptional chill is taking down long-standing records across the country.
    The Tasmanian capital of Hobart, for example, just shivered through its chilliest November low in 60 years. The mercury in the city sank to 2.9C (37.2F) at dawn on Monday — the coldest November night since 1953 (solar minimum of cycle 18). And Kunanyi/Mt Wellington, which overlooks Hobart, bottomed out at -5.8C at 4.30am — the third coldest November temperature ever recorded in Tasmania.
    Melbourne recently logged its coldest November day since 2007 (solar minimum of cycle 24), with that reading (of 14C/57.2F) surpassed on Monday when a high of just 13.5C/56.3F was observed.
    Most impressively though, some locales have just endured a late-season cold spell not seen for more than 160 years.




 
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