Woke up this morning and checked news/social media per usual and just see a ton of photos and videos of the current state of Australia. Looks absolutely insane over there:
The really red one said there was no filter used
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your sky is cosplaying Diablo
Heartbreaking to imagine the shortened lifespans we're going to suffer from due to events like this becoming more common on top of the immediate loss of life and unbelievable damage.
Woke up this morning and checked news/social media per usual and just see a ton of photos and videos of the current state of Australia. Looks absolutely insane over there:
Conservatives are the same all over this fucking planet.
Record warm temperatures above Antarctica over the coming weeks are likely to bring above-average spring temperatures and below-average rainfall across large parts of New South Wales and southern Queensland.
The warming began in the last week of August, when temperatures in the stratosphere high above the South Pole began rapidly heating in a phenomenon called "sudden stratospheric warming".
In the coming weeks the warming is forecast to intensify, and its effects will extend downward to Earth's surface, affecting much of eastern Australia over the coming months.
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting the strongest Antarctic warming on record, likely to exceed the previous record of September 2002.
What can Australia expect?
Impacts from this stratospheric warming are likely to reach Earth's surface in the next month and possibly extend through to January.
Apart from warming the Antarctic region, the most notable effect will be a shift of the Southern Ocean westerly winds towards the Equator.
For regions directly in the path of the strongest westerlies, which includes western Tasmania, New Zealand's South Island, and Patagonia in South America, this generally results in more storminess and rainfall, and colder temperatures.
But for subtropical Australia, which largely sits north of the main belt of westerlies, the shift results in reduced rainfall, clearer skies, and warmer temperatures
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A volunteer fire fighter died last night when a fire tornado picked up his 8 tonne truck, flipped it and threw it back on the ground.