@hoyer_kat (You might be interested to know Karl Marx applied for a visa to go to the US, from Germany…but was refused and so he ended up in London…)

@DaveTaylorNews Trumpression

Hottest March on record for Australia…by a big margin: https://t.co/9w3okoaJuK

My posts are usually going to be on the Blue site, such as: https://t.co/KGF4v1u2ZN

Meet Australia’s new chief scientist, Tony Haymet (via AFR)

Record heat in parts of the south-west Pacific (and the late start to the monsoon) raises the risk of another coral bleaching event: https://t.co/KoibdOBbgY

Sydney’s turn: https://t.co/AP2lGq6VWR

Canberra in for a stormy afternoon: https://t.co/WVDs1v2ZMu

Interesting report in today’s ⁦@FinancialReview⁩, with ⁦@patcummins30⁩ leading from the front (as usual)…

Powerful piece by Malcolm Knox…

And a good wrap here: https://t.co/s7b2Z7XmLu

Peak of the developing extensive heatwave looks to be over the three days from Saturday… (Via BoM)

(It was the second-hottest for mean temperatures…)

Rainfall in 2024 was a bit above Australia’s long-run average. In the Murray Darling Basin (the nation’s food bowl), rainfall was almost exactly on average. (Source: BoM)

By minimums, 2024 was easily Australia’s hottest on record, according to BoM.

By maximums, 2024 was Australia’s fourth-hottest on record. (Source: BoM)

Australia just ended its second-hottest year on record for mean temperatures in data going back to 1910. Across the year, temperatures were 1.46 Celsius above the 1961-90 average used by the Bureau of Meteorology.

@lewgus Thanks Stephen!

In case you missed on the other site:

@JLCauvin Mate, you could almost pass as true blue…