Hottest Night on Record in Australia
 

I know it's cold in the Northern Hemisphere but down here it's unbearably hot.

Our day time temperatures have been peaking in the mid 40s and standing outside can feel like you've walked into a blast furnace.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-...noona/10725886

Fucking hell that's hot - Glad I'm in NZ - It's actually a bit chilly here at the moment...

A few years back it was 40c at like 2 in the morning here... the white people were melting

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/w...07-h0ej5h.html

"In the end, it didn't quite break the record for Sydney's hottest day, but that was hardly cool comfort for Penrith residents who sweltered through 47.3-degree temperatures on Sunday."

that's 117.14 F for Americans, in an area densely populated not in the middle of the desert. And wish me luck I'm about to go for a walk in it.

I don't mind the heat so much because we can stay in air conditioning whether in the house or in our vehicles.

The biggest problem with this heat is that the snakes are looking for shelter and we're seeing a lot more of them around the house this year, which is a concern as we don't want our dogs to be bitten.

The other problem is the kangaroos are more active at night which is a hazard on the road, between here and the next major town I hit 2 kangaroos on Tuesday night and narrowly missed a few others. We try to avoid driving at night around here, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Water is the other issue, unless you have a good set of big tanks you might be running low. We have three massive tanks in our water system so no worries there.

Fucking sucks, A/C bills are no joke

It's all nice and cheap to live out there but you need to be a special breed to cope with the summers. Not for this white kiwi lad... stays nice and safe on the lower Northshore.

What is that in ameritemp? Like 95 degrees?

40^c = 104^f.

Give us our heat back! You thiefses. We're freezing up/down here.

https://www.flourish.org/upsidedownm...dyer-large.jpg

How the fuck you deal with that

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh took the words right out of my mouth

It's a special breed of people who can handle Australia's outback cos its just not the heat coming down from the sun, but up from the ground, really you have to experience it to understand.

That deep red soil they have is a heat magnet and the radiating heat from that can be as hot as the sun, sandwiched between is the air you breathe, and that's the same temperature, 5 minutes in those conditions and I need to get to a bar very quickly, but there's many people who work in it daily, the aboriginals lived in it for thousands of years. Amazing how humans adapt.

It's pretty hot down under.

We've had a cool change, it's going to be mid 30's until the end of next week :)

35c is 95f

Pretty humid as well?

No humidity here. Very dry.

Humidity is a killer for both hot and cold.

Northerners who regularly experience 0-15 degree weather freeze their balls off at 32 degrees here in the south.

One can't begin to explain what the humidity does at 100 degree weather. It chokes you out.

Reminds me of the bizarre weather after hurricane Katrina.. It literally vacuumed out the atmosphere.

You could light a cigarette and watch the smoke bellow straight up into the sky. Like one large room without a fan or AC.

Spooky shit.

Up in northern Australia they have both extreme heat and extreme humidity, I don't like it in Darwin but I cope when I'm there.

Humidity is no joke, I used to live in the Tropics, sweating my balls off

Fortunately where I live it's mostly just very hot and dry. We sometimes get humidity but that's rare.

I'd take dry heat over Florida or Kentucky (which is the worse) humidity.

Damn here is -9c

I could do with a little heat here, we have a balmy 20F below freezing today with a minus 40F tonight !

Looking forward to spring !

Today we're expecting temperatures in the mid to high 40s.

40c = 104f

45c = 113f

Tomorrow it's going to be hotter still and heat records are being exceeded all over Australia, especially in central rural areas.

Typical NZ weather - 33c down to 11c in 5 minutes yesterday...

They say 'if you don't like the weather here just wait a minute'.....

Glad it didn't made lose your cool . . .

When I lived in Auckland I found the weather more like Sydney than Melbourne. But you're right it can change quickly, especially on the south island. :thumbsup

By 2050 our nation will be looking back fondly on 2019 when the temperature was below 50.

50C = 122F

https://bbspics.com/images/2019/01/24/heatwave.jpg

its not the heat that should concern you, it will be the lack of drinking water :thumbsup have luck!

Hope this doesn't move north :Oh crap

But, but... i thought global warming was a hoax

good luck with that, its frezzing over here

Climate change is a Chinese hoax.

I saw the photos of all the wild horses dying. Sad :(

Can get 120F and up here in AZ, which is approaching 50C. Been here for 11 years I'm used to it now.

They're bulldozing dead camels into pits near Tanami.

In the west of NSW cattle are being shot as there is no more water or feed.

It's pretty bad stuff. Quite depressing.

Kangaroos around our area are skin and bones.