Hehehe we're roasting in SA

[Paul Haese]

Not the first hot spell of this summer but the hottest day since 2009. Far out, the current temp is 44.3. Next week is predicted to be 32 tomorrow, 36 Sunday, 41 Monday, 38 Tuesday, 37 Wednesday, 40 Thursday and 32 Friday.

I like hot weather but this is going to be not much fun.

I hope the coppers lock up all the Pyro nutters for the entire next week, or else we are all toast.

[deanm]

44.5 C here in Coro, Paul....!

It's been hotter! (44.7 C is the State record)

(But I suspect that any difference between your & my air temp is less to do with our respective 11 km distance and more so with gradual thermal ablation of thermometers!)

Dean

[04Stefan07]

Wow! I hope you guys stayed indoors today!

Down here in Melbourne, more specifically in my area it's 39.9, half hour ago it was 40.3.

I have been indoors all day except when I checked the mail. I almost melted on the way up my steep driveway!

[Kunama]

We have a nice cool 36 here in the mountains, hope you guys have plenty of Southwark to keep you cool.

(Do they still even make it? In 1970-72 I lived in Nangwarry and Mt Burr in the middle of millions of pine trees, whenever the temperature went up all the locals got very nervous)

[louie_the_fly]

Currently 38.2 deg & 11% RH in the Onkaparinga Valley. Got to 42.8 & 8%. Cooling down, & beers in freezer.

[gary]

Hi Paul,

Sounds like no need to go to Birdsville for one's holidays to get to experience
temperatures like that.

The heatwave conditions throughout the country was a major news story
here in Sydney but sounds as if we are lucky just to have to read about it rather
than experience it first hand. By comparison as at 18:15 here in Sydney's north it
is a mild 27C. Looks like it will be a beautiful night to be out here.

[JethroB76]

According to the BOM poor old Dunally here in Tassie hit 59.9 but I think that was as a fire went through the area.
Still 30+ here in Launceston and 40+ in Hobart is pretty warm

[Brettstar6754]

Wow, thats warm. What about night time relief?

Here in the Blue mountains (western sydney NSW) we are OK,
Overnight temps drop to 15 ish or better. If I open up the house all night then close up early morning we can stay quite comfy, no aircon needed.

Fires:
I really worry about bushfires in the Blue Mountains.
Especially with local government banning the removal of any branch or shrub or hedge over a few metres. Home owners should be able to make their property safe, simple as that.
Many parts of the mountains are sitting ducks.

Hope you guys get a break soon.

[DavidU]

Yeh, 43 here today, phew.........:drink:

[Lester]

23 now in Lincoln after 42max.

[jjjnettie]

My thoughts are with the poor folk in Tassie. :(
I know of one person who has lost her farm and stock at Dunally.
The main road is cut and last I heard boats were on their way to rescue thousands of stranded folk.

[asimov]

Excellent one day, perfect the next here..

[JB80]

I miss Adelaide. :(

Although that might be the ricketts talking.

[BlackWidow]

Not happy Jan!

I took holidays so that I could do some telescope nights and fly my plane. I seem to always be working and not getting time for myself. Well the heat has really put an end to that. I did get out last night and took some sots of the running man neb. Going to be hot all next week here in Adelaide. Thinking of going back to work and taking time off some time later... Work for myself..

Not a lover of the hot days... Might be time over the weekend to watch some movies.. Might start watching the Star Wars from the start....

Alaska is calling...oh I love that place

[Chif]

10 hours in a hangar today, it was like a damn oven. Absolutely horrible haha, glad they cancelled work tomorrow. I do love this heat though.

[mithrandir]

It was relatively cool here today. Only 36.5. Christmas Eve got to 41.5.

Tuesday is supposed to be 39 at the nearest BOM station which means it should be more than that here.

[Varangian]

It was still 39 degrees in my part of Melbourne at 9pm.

[ReaPerMan]

a couple of years ago I got sent to southern India for 10 days. While I was working there it was over 40 degrees every day. When I commented to some of the locals they told me to come back when it was hot as their summer averaged over 50 degrees. :cold:

[BlackWidow]

Hanger? Do your fly aircraft also.

[Varangian]

Yes, I remember four days straight of 45 degrees in Turkey in 1999!

[pgc hunter]

48.2C was the hottest at Wudinna yesterday. The heat has moved east, lots of 46C readings popping up in western and southwestern NSW currently, Hay so far reached 47.6C and it's not even 3pm yet! One to watch...

edit - Wilcannia also just hit 47.5C...

[RobinClayton]

on the other hand - the nights have been extremely clear. Best start to a New Year that I can remember - no clouds and no moon.

And their is supposed to be a comet visible in the North, but I haven't found it yet.

[Karls48]

Sometimes in early seventies I worked on construction of Robe River Project in WA. For three days we had temperatures reaching up to 127F. Two guys died in that heat. When I got back to Sydney no one believed e that it can get so hot.

[Poita]

We have had a lot of 40+ days here already, my partner who is 7 months pregnant is not amused!

[pgc hunter]

Lots of clear nights here too, however seeing has been abysmal. You could actually watch Jupiter warp into all sorts of exotic spheroids...

[Varangian]

Yes, we have certainly moved out of La Nina.



No kidding, looking at Jupiter at LMDSS on Sunday night was like watching a wave in the shape of a vaguely spherical blob. I thought there was a serious issue with my EP until I changed it.