Heat wave

[KenGee]

Have not be able image for nearly two weeks due to heat wave. My Observatory one night was still 32 deg at 2 am!!! When others on this site have been wading through flood waters, you have to love Australia. How are the other South Aussies coping?

[dugnsuz]

...Similar story Ken, and I'm in the Adelaide Hills!!! Usually a degree or two cooler but not recently. I had the scope out imaging on that really hot night - looked out at around 3am, sky was a bright ethereal greenish 'fizz' with the temp around 31 degs.Suffice to say all images were a bit noisy!
All be over soon hopefully
Doug:thumbsup:








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[fringe_dweller]

:sunny: we got the longest meanest :evil2: heatwave record for an oz city wooohooo! we win! :cool: :cool: :cool: :party: :party: :P :nerd: :help2:

dont worry it will shortly be freezing cold no doubt :D

[leon]

Bring on the frosts I reckon, it is bloody sizziling down here, real sensor burning stuff.

Leon

[Kokatha man]

Yes - 'tis a wee bits warm boys: one ting down here's at da beach those dang Willunga 'scarpments aint sendin' down hunnert kilometre winds at da mo coz it aint coolin' down in da night-times - obbin's bin good till that dang fire 'n smokes set ins.

Still, great work dose boys an gals did wif da fires, an now da smoke's startin to discappears. ('cept for da waxin' moon nows - scheisenn, I'sa soundin likes dem unhappies cockies!)

[leon]

Yep It is pushing 40 as we speak, 39.4 at present.

Leon

[Ric]

We are currently 34ºc, I was supposed to be on a hazard reduction burn this weekend but it was cancelled due to extreme conditions.

This is the third time in eight months we've tried, the first two were cancelled because it was too wet and now it's too hot.

Just can't win sometimes.

[xelasnave]

Still rained again last night up home...very humid on the flats and unpleasantly sticky...
alex

[Craig.a.c]

We have spent the last week with temps ranging from low to high 30s, more to come though.

[skeltz]

You city slickers think you have it bad ,out in my neck of the woods its been 40 degress,40 degress,40 degress,40 degress,and on and on and on.
Yep i am officially over it!

[gman]

Currently 39 in Melbourne with Northerleys blowing.
Was a good morning though, son no-2 won the U15 cricket final.
We were back home by 11am before the real heat set in.

Unfortunately we get all the dodgy weather from SA.
I feel for you guys in your 3rd week of the heatwave and it looks like you're 4th. As far as I am aware, you guys in SA have high 20's to mid 30's next week

[KenGee]

Just heard on the news that it should be 40 tomorrow then low 20's on Tuesday. It will feel like winters here after the heat we have had. Anyway I blame my wife she said the day before it started that she loves this time of year warm days and cool nights. Thanks honey!! My observatory has a airconditioner in it, as a result it can be made very cool indeed in there, I knew it was a good idea at the time.

[§AB]

Had an overnight low of 27.8ºC at my place on Thursday night/Fri morning, went out at 5am and it was over 30, the seeing was awful, Arcturus was twinkling so badly it looked like it was gonna go pop at any moment.

Had 9 days over 30C at my place this month, which is about twice as much as for the whole of Feb :lol:

Forecast 24/39 for melb. Tomorrow night could be blistering away from the seabreezes as the northerlys strenghen ahead of the cool change. I wouldn't be surprised to see 26-28C minimum temps around melbourne before sunrise on Tues.

[astroron]

Temp a nice 26c today,one night last week was 16.5c.
I feel for you people .
Hopefuly cooldown soon.
Ron

[Bobj]

Heat??? Check this out: Marble Bar The hottest town in Australia
"There are a small number of towns in Australia whose names have such a potency and such a power of association that they automatically conjure up images. The name 'Marble Bar' is synonymous with mining, isolation and, most importantly, heat. It is known as 'the hottest town in Australia' a fact which is still recorded by the Guinness Book of Records. For 161 consecutive days to 20 April 1924 the temperature in the town never dropped below 100°F (37.8°C). This record still stands after eighty years. During all the time that records have been kept the temperature at the town has never dropped below 0°C."

From Wikipedia:
"The climate of Wyndham is tropical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropics), with the wet season from late November to March and the dry season from April to early November. The hottest month is November with an average maximum temperature of 39.4°C (102.9°F), and the coldest months of June and July have an average maximum of 31.2°C (86.4°F). The annual average maximum temperature is 35.6°C (96.1°F,), one of the highest in Australia. In 1946, Wyndham recorded 333 consecutive days of temperatures over 32°C (90°F)." 'It in't 'alf 'ot, mum.';);)

[Mark]

Well..it's been a tad hot here in Wagga too...er, and of course, the pump in our swampy died. The result? The candles couldn't take it!

Phew!

Mark

[dugnsuz]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Viagra!!???

[leon]

Your a cheeky bugger Doug, I like it :rofl: :rofl:

Leon :thumbsup:

[§AB]

40.1ºC here just now, could really feel it when I got off the train this arvo.

The overnight temps will be ineresting to watch - Melbourne has 24/33 forecast, if the wind keeps up all night, min temps could be in the 27-28C range I reckon.

[dugnsuz]

22° on Friday!!!! Woo-Hoo!:)

98.7% Moon, D'Oh!!!!:doh:

[tbentley]

Heat wave? Bah! Come here to Port Hedland in the Pilbara if you want real heat.
Our last day under 30 degrees was the first of November and we've averaged over 35 since the end of September. To top it off our air-con just got fixed after going down at Christmas!:mad2:
Of course it could be worse.....Marble Bar is just two hours up the road.:D
Seriously though, my sympathy to all of you suffering, astronomically and otherwise. I know it's a lot harder when you aren't acclimatised to it.
Travis

[Kokatha man]

Wells, I checked me post an don't reckons I woz too whingies; even pulled meself up at t'end; but I wonts t'say summin to youse (mainly younger) fellas a-puffin yer machismos ups in dem places youse tinks are hots, buts nowadays youse rilly hafs lotsa conseshuns - wedda it be's jist eskies, ors inshulayshuns, ors hair condishunners an udder tings likes werkin regulayshuns; an mosts of youse mos' problies in y'early 40's, at mostest: I'sa werked ats Millers Creek and out on da old Ghan lines, an ats Ooldea, Immarna's, Tarcoola's (which it'aint) Maree's an plenty o' udder hotboxes where's dere woz no shades or nuttin; and youse outin da suns alldays wif nuffin buts dat ol canvass waterbags, fixin dem bores or rails or fensus etc.

It's not jist as yer gits abits longa in da tooths wif da heat tolerances, buts ya jist can't compares da clear heats, or even dusties heats, of da bush, t' da heat 'n stinks o' da bitumens an' cars an concretes in da cities. (an peeples) So's, Ima reminissin anda xaggeratin, jist like sum o' youse young bucks!

[taz]

Still showing 29 degrees at my place in Melbourne's west and air con not working........(anyone tried sleeping in their car with the engine running and air on???? or would I scare my neighbours????)

If it's 22 in Adelaide on Friday, then bring on a cooler Easter for us!!!

Cheers, Caroline

[§AB]

Had an overnight low of 27.8ºC again here but nights as a whole havent been very warm at all, mostly below 15 degrees except for last night and last thursday night.

[goober]

I had the scope out for half an hour, around 10:30pm. It was still above 30 then, I'm sure. Lousy seeing - looked good to the naked eye though.

Saw a few bright satellites earlier - a bright one went right under the moon around 8:30pm, heading ENE. Another about 15-30 minutes later heading NNW through Orion.

[§AB]

I never have the scope out on such nights because from experience there is a 99.999% chance of crap seeing plus all the crud blown around in the wind that has covered perhaps 2000km over dusty desert kills off transparency completely. Cold clear still nights seem far better both seeing and transparency-wise.

[goober]

That's why it was only 30 minutes :)

[§AB]

the glories of grab n go :)

[JethroB76]

Ah, those were the days...I spent 8 or so years in Port Hedland but have gone soft living in Tassie:lol: