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Australian Heatwave

Mitty

Mitty

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As I type this in Melbourne, outside it is 41.6 centigrade (and getting hotter... it's 2:23 PM thursday 28th). That's 106.8 in the old money. Tomorrow is going to be 43, Friday 40, Saturday 40. Trains are either delayed or cancelled due to track expansion and failure of airconditioning (trains can not run if the aircon isn't working). Meanwhile we are in the worst drought, Melbourne only has 33.4% in our water storages and we are only meant to use 155 litres of water a day per person. Luckily my airconditioning at work is holding out so far but we're placing bets on when it will fail.

Somehow I think sleeping tonight will be a lot of fun :)
 
It is freezing here in KY and we got ice and snow all over the place and the ice is breaking branches off the trees in my neighborhood.

The good thing is they closed Fort Knox so I am off tomorrow!
 
Sleeping in really hot weather isn't much fun. Doesn't your home have an air conditioner to help cool things down a little inside?
 
Oh my god, that sounds so nice. Other than the drought part. That sucks. We had one of those for a couple years back in the 90's. Some over-grown counties had to truck in water. In Maryland. :wtf:

As it continues pissing down ice here...
 
Yep we have aircon at home, my partner is going home early to switch it on. It's terrible that we're burning coal to keep cool. To add instult to injury there's rumours that there may be power problems due to substations overheating from the overuse of split system airconditioners. It wasn't as hot yesterday but I sat in the dark with the aircon on trying not to generate any more heat :)
 
I was watching the Australian Open and the match between Roddick and Djokovic and Djokovic had to retire because of the heat. It got to 140 F on the hard court. That's unreal.

Hope everyone there takes really good care of themselves.
 
The stupid thing with the Tennis is they can close the roof which I thought they would have done, but it takes half an hour for them to do it. I don't know why they don't just shut the thing this morning and ramp up the aircon.

And yep Centre Court gets unbelievably hot... but then one year it rained so much that the court actually flooded! Welcome to Melbourne! :D
 
Mitty said:
The stupid thing with the Tennis is they can close the roof which I thought they would have done, but it takes half an hour for them to do it. I don't know why they don't just shut the thing this morning and ramp up the aircon.

And yep Centre Court gets unbelievably hot... but then one year it rained so much that the court actually flooded! Welcome to Melbourne! :D
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I was watching Highlights of the Williams match and they stopped it to close the roof. I was wondering why they didn't yesterday when both players were suffering the heat. Didn't really make much sense to me but whatever.
 
Well Adelaide tops Melbourne - we hit 45.5 just after 2pm which is the second hotest day temp recorded for the city (hotest was 46.1 in 1939).

Maximum forecast temps for the next six days - 44-41-40-40-39-38 minimum forecast temps for the same period 32-30-25-23-22-22.

Last year we had a what was supposedly a 1 in 100 year heatwave for 15 days over 35C in March - we could well break that record.

The problem is a high presasure system over the Tasman sea that's just sitting there - it's casusing hot northerly wins to blow through and becasue it's so strong, nothign can be budge it which would lead to a drop in temprature.
 
It's nice up here in Brisbane. As I type its around 29 degrees and there is a nice cool breeze blowing and it looks like showers later...wait, looks like they'll bypass where I am.

As for water restrictions, we had a target of 140 just a year ago and we were on level 6 (extreme) restrictions. It's relaxed to 170 as our dams hit the 40% mark and we dropped to level 5 (high level) restrictions. At one point I think our dam levels were as low as 18% back in late 2007 and the talk was of level 7 restrictions (which would probably be 30 sec showers and if it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow let it mellow). Thankfully the dam levels started to go back up so that in around 8 months the restrictions were eased.
 
My sister lives in Adelaide where the remperature has reached 45.5C (113.9F). It is even hotter in other places in South Australia - at Ceduna the temperature has reached 46.2C (115.16F). This is South Australia's hottest heatwave in 70 years.

My sister was visiting us and went home on Australia Day. I bet she wishes she had stayed longer as Hobart is only getting temperatures in the high 20s.

Tasmanians would be buggered if they had to cope with a heatwave in the 40s as most homes down here don't have airconditioning.
 
Bloody hot here. Probably how hot Vulcan is! Lets see how the tennis goes. Still don't understand how the train tracks warp, they've known about thermal expansion of metals for centuries.
 
Darth Picardous said:
Bloody hot here. Probably how hot Vulcan is! Lets see how the tennis goes. Still don't understand how the train tracks warp, they've known about thermal expansion of metals for centuries.
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well the gunzels will tell it's cos Adelaide had a 3rd world railway system and it's due to the use of wooden sleeps - but then in my experience gunzels make trekkies look sane.
 
When I was living in Melbourne, we went to see Billy Joel at the tennis stadium on October 31, and it must have been 120 degrees F. It was unbelievable. Melbourne is not designed to take that kind of heat.

Stay cool.
 
I hate that kind of heat. We're getting 6"-9" of snow in the Boston area tonight (it's really coming down outside my office window) and I love it. Definitely need to take the dog out to play in it tonight.

the one downer is that my wife has to fly back into this from a conference later. I'm sure she will be delayed.
 
Rii said:
1:00am, 35C/95F. Fun. :lol:
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Not in Adelaide are you?

Adelaide's lowest night temp last night was 33.6 which is a new record (warmest mininum night time temp or some shit like that) but much of the night it was around 35 - 36.

If we hit 40 on Monday it's going to be a new heatwave record :(

Somebody should tell the weather that there are some records that should not be broke.
 
I would kill for that kind of heat. *Sigh*

I would have the good sense to stay in the shade and have plenty of slush puppies though. :D
 
An Officer said:
I would kill for that kind of heat. *Sigh*

I would have the good sense to stay in the shade and have plenty of slush puppies though. :D
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Trust me when you don't get respite during the night the heat gets pretty damn tiring reall damn quick.
 
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