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The highest recorded maximum temperature within Sydney's Metropolitan area was recorded at Penrith with a high of 48.9 °C (120 °F), a Western Sydney suburb, on 4 January 2020. At that time, Penrith was the hottest place on the planet and the hottest temperature recorded within Australia and the Southern Hemisphere for all of 2020.
Rising levels of salinity and desertification in some areas is ravaging the landscape. Climate change in Australia is a highly contentious political issue. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Temperatures in the country rose by approximately 0.7 °C between 1910 and 2004, following an increasing trend of global warming . [ 3 ]
Sydney lies on a submergent coastline on the east coast of New South Wales, where the ocean level has risen to flood deep river valleys carved in the Sydney sandstone. [1] Port Jackson, better known as Sydney Harbour, is one such ria. [2] The Sydney area lies on Triassic shales and sandstones.
5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...
Satellite photo of the Sydney (centre) area at night, facing west by northwest. Regional NSW areas can be seen on this map such as Wollongong in the Illawarra region can be seen at the bottom left, Bowral and Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands region can be seen in the far left, as well as Gosford in the Central Coast region is visible at the far right.
Humidity is already extremely dry." The weather comes after the region saw "critical" fire weather conditions that led to the Palisades and Eaton Fires, which set almost 38,000 acres ablaze.
The ecology of Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia, is diverse for its size, [1] where it would mainly feature biomes such as grassy woodlands or savannas and some sclerophyll forests, with some pockets of mallee shrublands, riparian forests, heathlands, and wetlands, in addition to small temperate and subtropical rainforest fragments.
Because of the great age and consequent low levels of fertility of the continent, its extremely variable weather patterns, and its long-term geographic isolation, much of Australia's biota is unique and diverse. About 85% of flowering plants, 84% of mammals, more than 45% of birds, and 89% of in-shore, temperate-zone fish are endemic. [5]