Shock News!! It’s Hot In Sudan, say BBC
By Paul Homewood
Thanks to Paul Weldon for exposing the latest BBC lies!
All schools have been ordered to close in South Sudan, as it prepares for a heatwave in which temperatures could reach an exceptional 45C (113F).
Authorities said children should stay indoors and that the extreme weather could last for at least two weeks.
Deaths "related to excessive heat" have already been reported, officials said on Saturday.
Residents in parts of the capital Juba sweltered without electric fans on Monday as the heat sparked power cuts.
The streets of Juba, home to more than 400,000 people, were largely quiet in the afternoon as local media reported temperatures of 41C (106F).
It is exceptionally early for South Sudan to experience such heat – temperatures often exceed 43C (109F) but only in the summer months, according to the World Bank’s Climate Change portal.
Children in uniform could be seen walking back to their homes, having been turned away from school on Monday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68596499
It is exceptionally early for South Sudan to experience such heat – temperatures often exceed 43C (109F) but only in the summer months?
The World Bank’s Climate Portal, which the BBC say they have quoted actually says the opposite – that temperatures peak in March in South Sudan. Summer is actually the coolest time of year, as that marks the rainy season:
https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/south-sudan/climate-data-historical
And temperatures of 41C are par for the course in the capital, Juba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba
There is no evidence that temperatures hit 45C in Juba, as the BBC indicated “could” happen. According to Weather Underground, temperatures at Juba Airport peaked yesterday at 107F, 41.7C
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/HJJJ
Juba’s population, by the way, has grown from 50,000 to half a million since the 1970s, so the urban heat island effect has also grown significantly too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juba
I think another complaint is in order!!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
From being such a well-respected and honest broadcasting station, in my opinion the BBC can not sink lower.
Such a shame.
BBC: BiasedBasketCase.
The BBC have made a mistake but was it intentional or accidental. Why not put the emphasis on weakness in the grid or demand for electricity?
“Residents in parts of the capital Juba sweltered without electric fans on Monday as the heat sparked power cuts.“
It follows that schools would be affected too. Not the worst example of misinformation but part of the drip-drip of bias that blames everything on climate. A city that doubled in size in the last 20 years with the geopolitical strains of the region is unlikely to have made grid improvements a priority.
I’ve got toothache – do you think its climate related? I’d say that Matt Taylor as the climate professional in the report needs to make a correction.
I,m amazed that it is nearly half a million population, think what the temperature would be like if most of them weren’t over here already……
I couldn’t agree more. Alice in Wonderland world.
Yes, it would be. For the ignoramuses at the BBC, Sudan is in Africa. Africa is hot, particularly close to the equator. I was taught that at Primary School. Why was the BBC correspondent or anyone else at the BBC not taught that? No Editorial oversight?
the Editor would be some woman with a degree in Art History
On a visit to S Iran (pre-ayatollah) I struggled on site in 50deg but drove past a football match in progress!
I’ve been to Sudan a few times and can confirm that it is definitely very hot for much of the year. Regarding the power cuts, these are the norm for most African countries and more so for Sudan: their power system is very primitive. The wealthy have generators and during the power cuts it is easy to see where the real wealth and power lies! We are heading the same way, and those of us who can afford it will all have small generators soon; as we fill the pot-holes outside of our houses.
A practical tip for those who go for generators…go for either
1.Propane as it lasts almost indefinitely when stored but not used, can run for as long as your cylinder size (up to 47kg = 645kWh in chemical form) and is easy to swap over cylinders quickly rather than liquid refuelling after cooling down.
2. Aspen fuel (bloody expensive) but will last for a long time in storage which modern petrol or diesel will not.
Alternatively do what a friend and I did for a bit of a hobby/laugh and build a gasifier; they really do work. Here is Colin Furze’s typically humorous take on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2qK-NCQH8
All they are describing is a normal day in most of Africa a couple of thousand miles each side of the equator , and power cuts are the norm everywhere in the continent
O/T but more shock news, Cherry Blossom is 2 weeks early in Washington reported on ITV news last night but the Washington Post blames us, we are all doomed,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/03/17/cherry-blossoms-dc-peak-bloom-climate/
Paywalled. How many people died?
a sign of climate change
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Due to warm weather, the actual peak this year was reached on March 17.
Logical leap. From “warm weather” to “climate change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2024/washington-cherry-blossoms-photos/
was outside a paywall for me. I noted that the Tidal Basin seemed to be much frequented by people of East Asian appearance. Then again, the trees were donated by Japan. Only the third earliest though.
I do remember visiting them when I lived in DC: once the blooms had gone over, the parks were taken over by the population from the East end of town, strangely more or less absent in the WaPo photos: the old unwritten apartheid seems still to operate.
Earlier than AVERAGE. And only the second-earliest ever. When you have 5 consecutive years, each one a record, tell me about it.
South Sudan has been in a civil war for over a decade, before that there was several decades of war with the rest of Sudan. If anything destroys infrastructure it’s wars of independence and civil war.
Focusing on what “could happen” appears to have become the new normal for the climate mafia, led by the BBC/ Guardian, of course. In the case of the latter there was yesterday’s fairy story about a heatwave in the UK in 2050 where temperatures reached 46C; today’s science fiction fantasy involves millions dying by 2100 caused by emissions connected to Oil & Gas firms.
. . . vs tens of millions from no electricity.
No power will kill people way more efficiently than heat. Indeed, the article even states that lack of electricity is a problem.
Yes, and unfortunately Britain is heading for regular power cuts if Milliband’s idiotic plan to make the grid “carbon free by 2030” ever takes place. I see this week that when the National Grid people said this just wasn’t possible he retorted that “when he said he’d do it he meant it”! Reminds me of King Canute.
Chris Phillips ;
No, Ed Miliband remnds me of the communist dictators of the last century, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot where the ends justifies the means. Ed Miliband has only promised to decarbonise the electricity by 2030. He hasn’t promised that supply would match demand.
Nor how many Brits will survive. The goal can always be reached by just shutting everything down. The commies want the middle-class destroyed, so shutting off the power works perfectly for them. Millions dead is a feature.
Miliband is a fervant admirer of Miliband. He believes he is a genius with god-like knowledge and abilities. Of course he has never achieved anything, never done anything, but still, he will save us all and make us fabulously wealthy but also wonderfully equal.
How long are we going to tolerate being gaslit by the climate loons? Sceptics problem is that there is a vast Establishment which is so heavily invested in this catastrophic movement that turning it round with be a Herculean effort. What shall we do? Shall we correspond in our sceptical echo chamber, watch as the whole thing collapses under the weight of its innumerable contradictions, and say we told you so or can we effect change? Any ideas?9
Move.
Cirrusly.
The problem is, as always happens in the prosperity-decadence-collapse cycle, the prosperous must speak out against the decadent, but they won’t because they will lose their prosperity. So they stay out of it, and hope the alligator eats them last.
Fortunately for America, we have someone who has spoken up: Donald J. Trump. And the Leftists’ heads are exploding.
So @BBCNews misquotes the World Bank’s Climate Portal over “climate”.
How ineffectual do you have to be to sit at the top of an organisation where things like this keep happening, and not sort it out?
It’s not hard. Disciplinary actions rising up the ranks would soon bring improvements. But the #BBC doesn’t care – or is actually happy for these low standards to continue if the bias is right.
My bet would be the story was picked up from some activist site or activist on X. It seems right so it gets published.