Meh… Amateurs. Can be four seasons in an hour in Tasmania! There’s even an ad currently about it, people bushwalking and constantly putting on and taking off their jackets so they have time to stop and take in the scenery.
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That’s true for parts of Tassie exposed to westerly weather and the high country, but some places in Tassie are fairly stable like around St Helens and to some extent the north coast as well. ‘Fine and 22’ is the norm most of summer in your hometown of Devonport; Hobart sees cooler and hotter spikes. A lot of climatic variation in Tassie despite its small size, due to the presence of the Central Plateau shielding the east coast.
The four seasons in one day feeling isn’t unique to Melbourne; abrupt changes can happen anywhere along the Southern Ocean coast. You do generally get more rain with fronts the further south you go, though. Places like Eucla see temperature swings even greater than Melbourne but are usually dry.
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The contest in Brisbane will be on to look the most wind swept and rain sodden this afternoon!
4pm news
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I was at home and noticed that Perth hit a top of just 16.2 degrees Celsius - coldest NOvember day since 1995 
. A lot of rain fell in Perth during the day. The day before yesterday, we sweltered in 36.7 degree heat in Perth, but now Perth saw a massive temperature swing.
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Forecast for Sydney’s west for this weekend
Saturday: 42 degrees
Sunday: 40 degrees
And it’s not even summer yet! Hottest part of the year is still 2-3 months away!
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Yet there are still people who deny the planet is warming.
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Yep, a heatwave is going to hit central and eastern Australia this weekend.
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Yep, 43 degrees here in Newcastle on Sunday.
Not looking forward to it.
And it’s not even summer yet, that’s the scary part.
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Observatory Hill in Sydney has recorded two consecutive days of 40C+ temps over the weekend. This is the first time this has happened since January 1960, more than 60 years ago.
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Funny how neither story from Nine-owned SMH mentioned the climate, as if global warming wasn’t a thing and couldn’t possibly be contributing to the greater number of days of higher temperatures.
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It shouldn’t be with every article. It’s good the paper has found the middle ground rather than being alarmist.
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“Alarmist”? That sounds like someone who watches Sky News Aus after dark.
After last year when so much of the continent was on fire, and now in a La Niña year we’ve got record temperatures before summer even starts, I’d say it isn’t alarmist to & there’s plenty of justification to fit in the articles somewhere that global warming is exacerbating these things.
Meanwhile the ABC has forgotten that summer doesn’t officially start until 1 December:
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The day I listen to people glueing themselves to roads like clowns causing disruption to people who have real issues to deal with will be the day I kiss ElCapitan where the sun doesn’t shine.
We have real issues like a pandemic, governments spending taxpayers money to buy votes (pork barrelling), people struggling with the cost of living, people roaming society with mental deficiencies, an inadequate education and justice systems fostering crime and unsafe communities, out of control growth in housing costs, states struggling to keep up with basic infrastructure without spending many billions of taxpayer dollars, an economy with ever increasing underemployment and casualisation, a superpower starting to throw their weight around (and they have the resources to cause some real trouble), the list really is long. These are some of the real issues that we pay people (three levels of government) to be working on resolving.
But I digress… Sorry for my perspective, back to weather…
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If global warming/climate change isn’t something to be worried about, then how come we’ve seen so many extreme weather events and temperature records broken over the last decade? 
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In the context of other stories published by the SMH in recent days that do mention climate change, there is nothing wrong with those two stories not mentioning it.