January
7 - Amazon passes Microsoft as the world's most valuable listed
company.
January
14 – For the first time, an American's chance of dying from an
accidental opioid overdose is higher than in a car accident.
January
24 - 17 temperature records broken in South Australia including
capital Adelaide at 46.6c.
January
29 - US Postal Service suspends deliveries to ten states because of
severe polar vortex.
February
12 - US national debt exceeds 22 trillion for the first time.
March
14 - California drought officially ends after more than 7 years.
March
20 – According to the World Happiness Report, Finland is the
world's happiest country and South Sudan is world's least happy.
March
24 - Mike Trout [2-time American League MVP] signs the biggest
contract in North American sports history - $426.5 million, 12-year
extension with the Los Angeles Angels.
April
1 - US online sales exceed retail sales for the first time.
April
10 - First ever photo of a black hole.
April
15 - Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire.
April
25 - Microsoft joins Apple and Amazon with a market worth of 1
trillion.
October
9 - Pacific Gas and Electric cuts power to 1 million people in
northern California to try to avoid wildfires amid high winds.
October
29 - Pacific Gas and Electric cuts power to 1.5 million people in
California to try to avoid sparking more wildfires.
October
30 - Washington Nationals beat Houston Astros 6-2 in Game 7 to win
first World Series in franchise history.
October
31 - US House of Representatives votes to formalize impeachment
proceedings against Present Donald Trump
November
11 - More than 120 bush fires cause Australia to declare state of
emergency in two states with a catastrophic threat issued for Sydney
region.
November
11 - Transit of Mercury across the sun, closer than any other transit
this century.
November
11 – Polar vortex brings record low temperatures for November to
the US Midwest.
November
20 - Oxford Dictionaries word of the year is "climate
emergency".
November
23 - Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct.
Australia and California - weather opposites. You guys had 7 years drought...we had the millenium drought in the years before that (broke with major flooding as yours started). Now we are in drought again (as all the record heat and fires listed above will attest). That's what happens when only one of us can have the la Nina effect. Wanna share?
ReplyDeleteApparently we already ARE sharing! First you get it, then we get it. I'd like to let someone else get it for a while. Well actually, I don't think I'd wish this on anyone. Fires are no fun. But maybe we can wish for climate moderation in 2020.
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