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This is what I meant when I said: "never seen before"
Yep, if those temps come off as forecast it would be up there with the PNW Heatwave of last year. I believe the South American ( continent ) record is 48.9c over 100 years ago !
Roebourne ( Pilbara in Western Australia ) is the one to watch later this week for a chance at the elusive 50c mark. If the sea breeze is held at bay post midday ish, there is a good chance of the forecast 49c being reached. My only experience of a +49c max was in Roebourne in Dec 2011.
Well it's officially here...the monster blockade starts to develop from today onwards. Now it's just the time to see the final results on the thermometers.
Yet for my province both models are seeing a light breeze messing around during Wednesday. Still, this is South America, not NA, so it seems a heat dome can never be fully closed
A diabolical difference in two different PWS networks around here, and all within about 40km of each other- first is weatherunderground showing stations around here, and the second is Metservice showing stations more around Nelson. I think something is seriously wrong with the metservice pws network
Looks like some potentially near record breaking heat at low altitude/coastal locations in the Western Australian Pilbara regions in the next few days.
There were two highlights, first the 41.2ºC in Punta Indio (town 10km inland from Rio de La Plata), it was a new alltime record (old 40.5ºC from 1957), and the second and most important of course, Buenos Aires city, downtown station, skyrocketed to 41.1ºC wich is its 2nd highest reading on record, and hottest since the long standing record from 1957!!
Now a weak cold front came in, and tomorrow gonna be 'mild' in comparison, but the scary fact is by Thursday the heat strikes back and even with more fury (hotter heat dome predicted at 850height), so don't be surprised if we top this mark just a few days later, and god only knows by how much...Truly historic week ahead. I didn't have power cuts today (although I saw many just few blocks away), but I don't expect to remain all this week 'untouched', an unfeasible task.
Several Pilbara, Western Australia towns approaching 50c today ( Thurs ). Roebourne, Onslow, Dampier and Karratha are at or close to sea level. Tom Price is the highest altitude town in Western Australia at 747m asl and has a 44c in the forecast !
Paraburdoo is at 424m asl and is foecast to reach 47c !
Most impressive max, the 44ºC of San Antonio Oeste, coastal site at almost 41ºS (northern Patagonia). It was just a few decimals shy of their all time record. Also Concordia with 41.8ºC was 0.3 short of its record. In total 36 out of the 89 major reporting stations today achieved 40ºC, it has to be a record I guess.
So that's all for the second 'light day' of this monster heat wave. And now there are the three more 'heavy' ones ahead, when it could cross the 45ºC mark, and maybe with some all-time records included? we shall see..
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