What do readers think of this ?
Does anybody feel the need for more information other than weather forecasts we access every day now ?
Smells to me like just another way to beat up normal very hot days.
Reported by Fairfax – New heatwave alert system to help save lives – Nov 7, 2013 – Peter Hannam
How about the BOM gives the farmers a cold weather and frost report too? It would make as much sense as a special heat wave alert. However, they won’t do it because there is no CAGW mileage in it. This is all a follow up to their present policy of over-forecasting hot weather to grab the headlines and weather-memory of the population before the event.
Frankly, ridiculous. It’s not using absolute temperatures. It could show Hobart with a heatwave, and Perth not, even though Perth was much hotter.
And the usual misleading propaganda.
But excessive cold kills far more. The hottest months in Australia have the lowest death rates. Which means hot weather in fact saves lives.
joannenova.com.au/2011/11/7000-excess-winter-deaths-in-australia-and-1500-in-new-zealand-each-year/