New Zealand records warmest-ever June as ski fields struggle

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By NICK PERRY

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand has recorded its warmest June since recordkeeping began, as ski fields struggle to open and experts predict shorter southern winters in the future.

A range of factors led to the record, including more winds coming from the milder north rather than the Antarctic south, and unusually warm ocean temperatures, said Gregor Macara, a climate scientist at the government-owned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

He said the vagaries of weather will change from month to month. “But the underlying trend is of increasing temperatures and overall warming,” Macara said.

The average temperature in June was 10.6 degrees Celsius (51 Fahrenheit), the research agency reported Monday. That’s 2 degrees C above the 30-year average for June and more than 0.3 C higher than the previous record set in 2003 and again in 2014. Recordkeeping began in 1909.



A person walks on Orewa Beach in Auckland, New Zealand, on June 5, 2021. New Zealand has recorded its warmest June since recordkeeping began, as ski fields struggle to open and experts predict shorter southern winters in the future. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP)


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Global warming continues.

[NurseJackie]

1. Are the climate change deniers as bad worldwide as they are in the United States? Or...

... are we pretty much the only nation with so many loud idiots?

[DFW]

2. In our part of Europe, no one denies it

In a part of the world where air conditioners were considered exotic, unnecessary devices forty years ago, and farmers never had to worry about there being enough rain for their crops, and rivers and reservoirs never lacked for water, all that has been turned on its head. Searing heat, drought, invasive, destructive swarms of insects never seen in our area, birds usually seen now disappearing, and a need for air conditioners in every building and dwelling, every train and car--no one denies this is happening right now, and very few, if any, deny the cause.

[NurseJackie]

4. That's good to hear... I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that...

That's good to hear... I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that they're as prolific as the anti-vaxxers. Ugh.

[DFW]

5. The anti-vaxxers are paranoid about what MIGHT happen to them

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The climate change is already happening. No speculation is necessary. You can always look at the sky and claim you see green, but you won't get taken very seriously by anyone except eye doctors and mental health specialists.