For a hot day it wan't too bad down here. It hit 42C in Albion Park and 39 at Bellambi (which is out on a point) and my place would be a bit warmer than Bellambi. But the duration of the heat was very short: it didn't get above 30 until 2pm at Albion Park and after 3pm at Bellambi and then the southerly hit at 6pm and the temperatures dropped. It seems that the hot winds hit the central coast quite early and moved south during the day but didn't get much south of Nowra.
As others have noted duration of the heat really makes a difference and this is also true of the diurnal cycle. Years ago I spent a wet season in Kununurra where for months the daily maximum was 42. A friend flew down to Perth for a week, where daily maximums were likewise consistently around 40. However she said it was no where near as hot as Kununurra. In Perth it is warm in the morning and gets hot in the afternoon before the sea breeze arrives. But, as she said, in Kununurra it was 40 at 8am when she was going to work. In October I was getting up at 3.30am for work and it was 36! It was up there that I first really realised how quickly a person can get into trouble if they run out of water.
Anyway, down here it looks like we are in for some pleasantly warm weather for a while with just enough rain the water the garden
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