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?
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?
...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
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!)
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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, 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.'
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.
we got the longest meanest 
heatwave record for an oz city wooohooo! we win! 
The end is in sight
