{"id":6061,"date":"2016-02-11T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:32:44","slug":"heat-waves-in-calgary-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/heat-waves-in-calgary-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat waves in Calgary, Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might not consider winter a time to get a heat wave, but one accepted definition of a heat wave is three or more consecutive days with temperatures at least\u00a0five\u00a0degrees above average.\u00a0 So media reports of a “heat wave” in Calgary are correct, even if the temperatures seem low to us in the Southeast.\u00a0 According to Global News Canada here<\/a>, they have been experiencing a heat wave in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that is making the locals look forward to an early golf season and is allowing government workers to fill potholes ahead of schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n

By comparison, the recent heat wave in Perth, Australia is more like what we would expect from a heat wave.\u00a0 And it’s not surprising that temperatures are so high considering that it is mid-summer in the Southern Hemisphere now.\u00a0 The Weather Channel reported<\/a> that “While some in the northern hemisphere are shivering through winter, one Australian city tied an 83 year-old heat wave record. Perth, Australia<\/a>, sweltered through four straight days of temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) from Feb. 7-10, tying a record-long such streak in the city from February 1933, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Maps below from the Climate Reanalyzer<\/a> show the above-normal temperatures in both regions.<\/p>\n

\"calgary<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \"perth<\/a><\/p>\n

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You might not consider winter a time to get a heat wave, but one accepted definition of a heat wave is three or more consecutive days with temperatures at least\u00a0five\u00a0degrees above average.\u00a0 So media reports of a “heat wave” in Calgary are correct, even if the temperatures seem low to us in the Southeast.\u00a0 According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6064,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}