{"id":19496,"date":"2016-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/heatwave-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-50-degrees-by-mid-century\/"},"modified":"2016-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"heatwave-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-50-degrees-by-mid-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/heatwave-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-50-degrees-by-mid-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave temperatures predicted to hit 50C by mid-century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>As the city of Perth braces for a sweltering week of extreme heat, a climate researcher has predicted that future heatwaves will reach even higher temperatures \u2013 \u201cinto the 50s\u201d.<\/h3>\n<p>Perth has sweated through a hot weekend of 35-plus degree days, but that was just a prelude to a week expected to reach maximum daily temperatures of 42 (Mon), 42 (Tue), 41 (Wed), 39 (Thu) and 36 (Fri).<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in the Pilbara town of Marble Bar are forecast to exceed 44 for six days in a row.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stay hydrated, severe to extreme <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/heatwave?src=hash\">#heatwave<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WA?src=hash\">#WA<\/a> to continue next few days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9UGeHElGJc\">https:\/\/t.co\/9UGeHElGJc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GgADizvj1E\">pic.twitter.com\/GgADizvj1E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BOM Australia (@BOM_au) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BOM_au\/status\/695790228322316288\">February 6, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Professor Will Steffen from Australian National University says the temperatures are an example of how heatwaves are becoming \u201chotter and longer\u201d, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/national\/perth-heatwave-wa-facing-longer-hotter-weather-with-temperatures-into-the-50s\/news-story\/6e2b4744f2d21f079e08d20a72379a0a?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=HaraldSun&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news.com.au<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHeatwaves will be even worse than they are now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Climate Council, heatwaves that used to occur every three years are now happening every 200 days because of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens after mid-century depends on how we get emissions under control but if we keep burning fossil fuels &#8230; that means really, really excessive heat during extreme weather \u2013 into the 50s,\u201d said Prof Steffen.<\/p>\n<p>WA&#8217;s extreme forecast for this week has prompted public health reminders to take special care of the young and elderly. Nightly minimum temperatures are forecast to be as high as 26.<\/p>\n<p>For the record: the highest temperature ever recorded in Australia belongs to South Australia. The temperature reached 50.7C in Oodnadatta in 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/cries-of-hypocrisy-over-leslie-mann-and-dakota-johnson-s-flirtatious-tv-interview\">CRIES OF HYPOCRISY OVER FEMALE STARS\u2019 \u201cSEXIST\u201d TV INTERVIEW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/research-suggests-that-being-disorganised-is-actually-a-good-thing\">THE BAD HABIT THAT ACTAULLY MEANS YOU\u2019RE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the city of Perth braces for a sweltering week of extreme heat, a climate researcher has predicted that future heatwaves will reach even higher temperatures \u2013 \u201cinto the 50s\u201d. Perth has sweated through a hot weekend of 35-plus degree days, but that was just a prelude to a week expected to reach maximum daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heatwave temperatures predicted to hit 50C by mid-century - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/heatwave-temperatures-predicted-to-hit-50-degrees-by-mid-century\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heatwave temperatures predicted to hit 50C by mid-century\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the city of Perth braces for a sweltering week of extreme heat, a climate researcher has predicted that future heatwaves will reach even higher temperatures \u2013 \u201cinto the 50s\u201d. 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