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Hot weather

Heavy rain in Warrnambool after the cool change came through.
 
MB78 said:
Heavy rain in Warrnambool after the cool change came through.

Let's hope that's the real cool change. Temperatures have dropped but still hot and humid all around.

rosy23 said:
It was 40 here at 10.30 this morning. Really strong north wind. Scary day.

CC TIGER said:
Just been down to Avenel and the outside temp hit 41, winds were getting nasty all the way back to wang, fingers crossed no fires

How do you guys cope when your worse off than us in Melbourne? When I retire, I'm heading for the South Coast or Tassie.
 
TigerForce said:
Let's hope that's the real cool change. Temperatures have dropped but still hot and humid all around.

How do you guys cope when your worse off than us in Melbourne? When I retire, I'm heading for the South Coast or Tassie.
Best thing about living in Melbourne compared to up here is you get relief from the heat, we go weeks not dropping under 30, plus no afternoon sea breeze
 
TigerForce said:
Hey WesternTiger,

Has a SW wind with rain really blown into Warrnambool/Port Fairy or are BOM juggling the figures?

It's boiling hot up here.

A wind change and local thunderstorms came through at about 2 when we were leaving for a wedding in port Campbell. Some decent drops of rain however northerlys kicked back in soon after and the temps headed north again.
 
WesternTiger said:
A wind change and local thunderstorms came through at about 2 when we were leaving for a wedding in port Campbell. Some decent drops of rain however northerlys kicked back in soon after and the temps headed north again.

Your spot in Victoria is my favourite WT. I hate summer heat especially in heat waves and would rather spend a summer near the coast which has bayside seabreezes, and the SW is usually the first to get a cool change during a hot spell.
 
got to 43.6 on the weatherzone app last Saturday. not sure if they use the same data as the BOM, but it must have been a record hot day for December.
 
Some more records.....

Coldest Melbourne Day ever -2.8c July 1869
Hottest Melbourne Day ever 47.2c February 1851
Melbourne blanketed in snow for the first and last time in August 1849
 
poppa x said:
Some more records.....

Coldest Melbourne Day ever -2.8c July 1869
Hottest Melbourne Day ever 47.2c February 1851
Melbourne blanketed in snow for the first and last time in August 1849

I think you need to interpret those with a grain of salt. The BoM have only used standardised and calibrated equipment since 1908.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/
 
Mr Pumblechook said:
I think you need to interpret those with a grain of salt. The BoM have only used standardised and calibrated equipment since 1908.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/acorn-sat/

True.
 
Anyone know what rain looks like? ;D Already hit 40 in this 'dry as a bone' city. Hopefully no more bushfires.
 
LeeToRainesToRoach said:
Stirring. But reading the likes of The Age, you'd think we'd never had hot weather before.

in terms of extreme heat, I can only remember 1 day over 43 in my lifetime prior to the black Saturday summer of 2008/09 (it reached 44 degrees on... pretty sure it was 25/1/03). since the black Saturday summer I can recall at least 6 days over 43 off the top of my head (4 of them were in 2009, including 3 in a row on around Australia day).