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Though a fierce blast of cold air froze the central U.S. Friday, what's coming next week will be even worse:
Using words such as "life-threatening," "dangerous," "brutal," and "unprecedented," the National Weather Service is preparing us for the extreme cold that's forecast to roar into the U.S. next week.
"The coldest air of the season will plunge the upper Midwest and Great Lakes into life-threatening conditions" next week, the weather service said Friday. The cold will be most intense from Tuesday through Thursday.
And although the worst of the cold will be over the north-central region, practically the entire eastern two-thirds of the nation will see freezing temperatures, all the way down to central Florida. That's nearly 200 million people.
Temperature records have tumbled across South Australia, with the city of Adelaide experiencing its hottest day on record, as the second heatwave in as many weeks hit southern parts of Australia.
Adelaide hit 46.6C on Thursday afternoon, the hottest temperature recording in any Australian state capital city since records began 80 years ago.
Repeat after me..."Global warming doesn't mean it's never cold"
Yeah these arguments are so foolish I feel sad for these folks. Course they see Trump say nonsense like this, and think "Oh hey, hes smart, I should repeat this!".
Imagine that, mother nature doing exactly what it wants regardless of how many SUVs are on the road. What a crazy world.
I know America is not a wildly science literate country, but what you are talking about is weather, not climate. Global warming is just one aspect of climate change.
Scorching heat knocked out power to homes and businesses, raised wildfire risks and sent tennis fans looking for water and shade Friday in Australia's second-largest city, which recorded its hottest day in five years.
Melbourne reached 109 degrees Fahrenheit by early afternoon before a sudden cooldown, though the outskirts of the city remained hot, with the airport recording 114.8 degrees. It was the hottest day since 2014 in the Victoria state capital, which has a population of 5 million.
The power grid began load sharing as temperatures climbed in the early afternoon, with 30,000 households and businesses at a time being switched off for as long as two hours so that supply could keep up with demand.
I dropped a piece of paper out the window, and instead of falling straight down, the wind blew it to the side. So much for gravity. Nyuknyuknyuk
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