Hot weather is forecast for Adelaide early next week but while it may be tempting to call it a heatwave, the Bureau of Meteorology's official definition is a little more complicated.
With several days of hot weather forecast for Adelaide next week, it might be tempting to call it a"heatwave", but what is a heatwave? Is it as simple as hot weather that hangs about for days on end?Bureau of Meteorology definitions of heatwaves changed in 2014The short answer is no.
Up until 2014 a heatwave definition in Adelaide was defined by different maximum temperature thresholds for a three or five-day period. In Adelaide, for example, a maximum of 36 degrees Celsius and minimum of 20C for three days and nights over summer would be considered the threshold low-intensity heatwave, although those figures could be higher or lower because it is their combined average that drives the rating."You see them often enough that your engineered environment and adapted strategies are pretty safe."
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