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Two extreme weather events in #Queensland today:

#Heatwave: Birdsville reached 49.4°C, just 0.1°C less than Qld's highest recorded temp

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/queenslands-2ndhottest-recorded-temperature/1758872

#Cyclone: Category 3 Severe #TCKirrily is now expected to make landfall just north of Townsville around 11 pm . Currently Gusts of more than 170km/hr hitting Whitsunday Islands.
Cyclone has intensified over anomalously warm Coral Sea waters.
#extremeweather

In North Queensland Electricity workers restoring power to 29,000 homes and businesses in hot and high humidity conditions after Tropical Cyclone Kirrily (#TCKirrily) passed through Thursday night.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/28/tropical-cyclone-kirrily-disaster-grants-offered-as-tens-of-thousands-in-north-queensland-remain-without-power.

#Heatwave Temperatures 🌡️ have returned to mid 30s Celsius with high level of humidity above 60% according to BOM Meteye service

Just checking the #HeatHealth risk in #Cairns.
High today, but rated severe for Monday-Saturday, into extreme on Tuesday.
https://heatwatch.sydney.edu.au

What #ClimateCrisis ?#LethalHeat

There are lessons in the #heatwave that hit #EastAntarctica in March 2022, when tropical heat and moisture was drawn south by the Southern #Jetstream and a blocking High.
#Antarctica #ClimateCrisis

https://theconversation.com/a-heatwave-in-antarctica-totally-blew-the-minds-of-scientists-they-set-out-to-decipher-it-and-here-are-the-results-220672

Stormy summer afternoon at the beach. #goldcoast #australia #summer #heatwave