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Warm winter caps Australia's hottest year

2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: Australia has just experienced its warmest 12 months since climate records began. Data monitoring by the Bureau of Meteorology shows the average temperature throughout Australia in the year to August 31 was 1.11 degrees above the long-term average. In Victoria, it was the warmest winter on record, just pipping the winter of 2005. The nation's fourth-warmest spring on record morphed into the hottest summer on record. And now the seventh-warmest autumn has been followed by the third-warmest...

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Australia: Hottest year start keeps climate change in spotlight

2013-02-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment Health: For Australia, 2013 looks like being a "year of living extremely" if January is anything to go by. The Bureau of Meteorology said last month was the country's hottest month in just over a century of records. Nationwide, the January average maximum temperature was 36.92 degrees. The anomaly was 2.28 degrees, "a substantial increase" on the previous record of 2.17 degrees set in 1932, the bureau said. Thanks to the massive heatwave that dominated the first half of January, all states and territories...

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Wildfires across Australia and the US's hottest year on record: the heat that's making history

2013-01-11 21:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Confused? You have every right to be. On just one day this week, it was reported that the heatwave that has lit wildfires across Australia is so unprecedented that two new colours have had to be added to weather forecasting maps; that 2012 had been by far the hottest year on record in the United States; that the blue-chip World Economic Forum had identified climate change as one of the world's most urgent dangers; and that, nevertheless, the Met Office had concluded that global warming had stalled....

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NOAA: 2012 hottest & 2nd-most extreme year on record

2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment Health: By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma It's official: 2012 was the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states, as the country experienced blistering spring and summer heat, tinderbox fire weather conditions amid a widespread drought, and one of the worst storms to ever strike the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2012 had an average temperature of 55.3°F, which eclipsed 1998, the previous record holder, by 1°F. That was just...

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2012: Hottest Year on Record for Continental U.S

2013-01-09 16:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Temperatures across the continental United States soared in 2012 to an all-time high, making last year the warmest year on record for the country by a wide margin, scientists say. elated: "July Hottest Month on Record in U.S.-Warming and Drought to Blame?") "2012 marks the warmest year on record for the contiguous U.S., with the year consisting of a record warm spring, the second warmest summer, the fourth warmest winter, and a warmer than average autumn," Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the...

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