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his has been
Australia’s hottest October on record. Barring an (extremely unlikely) cold
snap, it will also be the hottest October for Victoria, and for Melbourne. And
the record-breaking temperatures are at least six times more likely thanks to
human-induced global warming.
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| David Karoly. |
But hold up, you say, October isn’t over yet! That’s true,
but going by the current forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology we can see
that new record high October average maximum temperatures are virtually
certain.
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| Mitchell Black. |
In fact, the maximum temperature on Saturday would need to
be below freezing across Victoria for the record not to be set, and there is no
physically plausible scenario that could lead to that happening. Maybe if an
asteroid landed in Victoria on Saturday (Halloween) and threw up enough dust to
block out the sun? But that is very, very unlikely!
Read what the Professor of Atmospheric Science from the
University of Melbourne, David Karoly, and PhD Candidate, Mitchell Black, also
from the University, had to say on The
Conversation - “It’s been Australia’s hottest ever October, and that’s no coincidence.”
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