Weather extremes in India, Australia and North America

The online forecasts I've looked at are forecasting 40C

Adelaide To Hit A Record Breaking 54°C

the Adelaide Current,

5 December, 2015

Adelaide may hit an unexpected 54°C at about 3PM tomorrow afternoon, the severe heat warning follows with fire bans across the state

Chennai grapples with flood aftermath; long queues at ATMs, petrol pumps

The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services, besides many roads also becoming fairly motorable even as waterlogging woes continued in several areas.

Torrential rains have left at leasts 245 people dead since October 1, according to the Tamil Nadu government. The situation took a turn for the worse on Tuesday with large areas of the city flooded. The deluge destroyed crucial road and rail links, shutdown the airport, snapped power and telecom lines and left lakhs of people stranded

As Chennai grapples with it's worst floods in the past 100 years, the Chennai airport too has been hit.

http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/these-images-of-a-gulfstream-jet-other-planes-getting-swept-away-will-make-you-realise-the-extent-of-the-chennai-floods-247995.html

2 December, 2015

As Chennai grapples with it's worst floods in the past 100 years, the Chennai airport too has been hit. Chennai airport has been closed till tomorrow morning

Just to give you an idea of how severe the flood waters were this is a Private Jet swept way.

Here's a Premier 1A belonging to Premier Jet Services which met the same fate.

The airport authorities have decided to suspend operations till 6th December following the flooding.

However, more than 700 passengers remain trapped inside. Images like this are surfacing on Twitter.

Authorities are meanwhile trying to get the stranded passengers out through Tirupati airport terminal which is close by. 

To make matters worse, the Met department has predicted more heavy rainfall in the next 48-72 hours.

Our prayers go out to everyone in Chennai at this tough time. 

Learn from Chennai Disaster: Cars are being used as generators to charge phones given cars are otherwise useless to move around in flooded areas. Use phones to reach out for emergency.

Don't get all too cozy.

Learn from Chennai Disaster: 1 bottle of water, Rs.300/-; 1 packet of biscuit, Rs.250/-.

Spontaneous community is forming as we speak to feed the needy (and keep the greedy in check). This shows how silly the form of government based allocation of resources based on capitalism and money is and how people are much more malleable and awesome as social beings. Capitalism has to clearly go.

---Suraj Kumar (Facebbok)

Temperature anomalies in North America

Earlier this week I posted three days worth of temperature anomaly forecasts for North America this weekend, and I am truly shocked to see what Climate Reanalyzer is forecasting for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, much worse than they forecast for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. More than half of Canada is facing a temperature anomaly of 15-20 C / 27-36 F above normal on Tuesday and Wednesday.

---Mark Richardson, via Facebook