Too Hot !!!

[Tony]

Summer in Australia is very warm, relative to pretty mild winters down south, this season is no different. For the last two weeks in Melbourne it's been around 30 to 35 degrees C, in the day, and 20 degrees C at night. The heat builds up in your house, the roads, drive ways, cement and just persists. There's only so many cold showers a guy can have each day. 

Now there's smoke haze in the air, from the bushfires all round the outskirts of the City. I'm thinking there has to be a better way to put these darned bushfires out, quickly.

Entering my 13th 20 hour day, it's a bit of a novelty I suppose but it's wearing thin.  Just felt like complaining, so sick of not sleeping due to heat, and falling asleep in the lounge room unexpectedly while watching enduring TV.
Rarely sleep in bed anymore; cherishing the cool 3.00 am breeze off the bay, such is weather, damn annoying in most places.

Life couldn't be better though as there are so many suffering due to poverty, bad sanitation, I really shouldn't complain, except i want to. 
 

[joechimp]

Maybe we could send you some of the big snow storms the US is suffering from. No fear of too much heat here. Some areas wind chills are -20 F or even lower. That would do a job on your heat. 

In all seriousness, I sympathize with all our friends down under. The many natural disasters that seem to have zeroed in on your part of the world don't seem to let up.
Good luck with it all.

[harley]

I recently returned from the snowy alps of Japan to Sydney.

In one day I endured a temp difference of 45deg C. Was -7 when I left and was 38 here.

 

H

[topcat]

Hey Tony,

I feel the pain.  I lived in Park Orchards during the summer that included Ash Wednesday.

It's pretty warm here in south Aus today, so I guess you're going to get more of it.  Sorry.

Mod
OMG. I just had a look at the CFS map http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/warnings-restrictions/warnings-and-incidents/?gclid=CP704KKAwLUCFcUhpQodix4ARg
It was 42 here in SA today and dry as a ...

Please lets not have another Marysville.


I don't know where you are but my wishes and prayers go out to you and all in the CFS
tc

[zorlac]

Rode my motorcycle to work this morning at -6.6C (-21.5C windchill).
30C sounds fine to me.  
A pool in your backyard is certainly a blessing.  

[jimwilk]

Tony,
I feel the same sympathy for you as shown by others. Although it never gets as hot over here in NZ, we have 34 C scheduled today in Central Otago (Queenstown and Alexandra). Recently, in my home town, it reached 31 C. That was too hot for me. Yesterday it reached 27 here.

Years ago (1977), I spent two weeks at Mt Macedon on an emergency services course. They were in the process of rebuilding the complex so we were taken by bus each day from a residential school - I think it was called Braemar out near Woodend. Visited Hanging Rock while I was there. Later, of course, that whole area around Macedon was devastated by the Ash Wednesday fires (I think).

You complain of your TV. At least you have ad-free ABC and SBS. Here, we had one great ad-free channel which was shut down by our government last year. Our remaining free to air channels are mostly rubbish.

Jim

[gseaman]

When I was young, I moved to Pheonix, AZ, for summertime work. I arrived to my apartment on Friday afternoon and the electric company was closed until Monday morning. The daytime highs were about 110 degrees F, and night time lows were 92 degrees F. So, without air-conditioning, I slept in about 100 degrees. The only way to survive this was with wet bath towels for blankets. The evaporative cooling was reasonably effective.

Galen

[Tony]

joechimp:

Maybe we could send you some of the big snow storms the US is suffering from. No fear of too much heat here. Some areas wind chills are -20 F or even lower. That would do a job on your heat.  

Yes please, it might melt though.  
Heck any extreme weather is obviously extremely dangerous, wherever it may be.

I recently returned from the snowy alps of Japan to Sydney.

In one day I endured a temp difference of 45deg C. Was -7 when I left and was 38 here.

 

H

That's got to be a little odd. The humidity in Sydney at 45deg C is unimaginable. Glad I wasn't there.
Thanks all for your great stories. I remember the weather as a kid was just as hot, but being a kid it didn't worry me.
topcat:

OMG. I just had a look at the CFS map

It's pretty warm here in south Aus today, so I guess you're going to get more of it.  Sorry.

Yes, it'll be hot all week.
Generally the Weather comes from the West. With topcat living in Sth Australia I'll get their weather tomorrow, here in Victoria. There's no wind or weather systems, just humidity and heat, so in this kind of pattern it's quite predictable.

It's the compounding of the heat with consecutive days, it permeates everything, not to complain.
I could go to the beach, but by the time I got back, and it's only a Kilometre away, I'd be hot again. Probably hotter.  
Best relief is to go to the Supermarket, or mall, and enjoy their Air conditioning.  

Hi jimwilk, hope your Brother is recuperating well, and your family, and yourself are ok after the motor vehicle accident your Bro was involved.
Those temperatures are generally nice, if it cools off at night. The day in Sydney at 45 C as harley speaks of is just crazy.  
"...The Ash Wednesday bushfires , known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar. Within twelve hours, more than 180 fires fanned by winds of up to 110 km/h (68 mph) caused widespread destruction across the states of Victoria and South Australia.
"...The fires became the deadliest bushfire in Australian history, until the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009."
(I lost my whole State, Victoria) that day, I don't think there was a blade of grass, or a Marsupial left, with just black sticks which were once trees stood, the only feature of the landscape . 100's of thousands of Hectares.

Thanks for that link topcat, it's quite smokey today in Melbourne. Looking at the map says why.

[Tony]

When I was young, I moved to Pheonix, AZ, for summertime work. I arrived to my apartment on Friday afternoon and the electric company was closed until Monday morning. The daytime highs were about 110 degrees F, and night time lows were 92 degrees F. So, without air-conditioning, I slept in about 100 degrees. The only way to survive this was with wet bath towels for blankets. The evaporative cooling was reasonably effective.

Galen

Yes, Arizona is a hell of a place. have friend who lives there and I could never convince them it was hot here. 

[Tony]

It's actually a bit chilly Today ! My inside thermometer says 24C, or 76 F.
Much cooler outside, around 16C I'd think, cloudy.

There are intermittent 'drops' of rain. Let's hope this persists for awhile to get fires under control.