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f#cking hot down here
Posted by Junior Wells on 2 January 2012 - 3:07am.
36 celsius by 10 am , will get over 40 which is well over 100 in the old
and I live dead opposite the beach 36 the day before and 34 the the day before that.
can't wait to wear shoes, socks and a suit tomorrow when a spritely 36 is again forecast - bring back the safari suit I say
Times like this always bring me to the magnificent triffids. They hailed from Perth where summer is often like having your abode inside of a pizza oven and where it is often too hot to move too hot to think
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Love The Triffids
David McComb was such a talent...almost makes me weep to hear such a beautiful song as this from someone who died so young.
Go north, young man
Spent New Year in Geelong and then drove north back home to NSW - interesting to see the clouds appear (and the temperature drop by 10 degrees) almost on cue at the state border. And now it's a pleasant 26. Feels more like the Go-Betweens (Streets of Your Town) than the Triffids.
It hit 40 an hour ago
back to a balmy 36 now
We cop Perth's weather a couple of days later
Keep it down there guys
I'm off to the cricket in Sydney tomorrow (in the cheap seats where you clap your hands and don't get any shade) so hopefully the temperature will be manageable (on and off the field)
aaah the cricket
my saviour
day one
back in the office
day one
second test
We used to dream of 36 degrees!
It would have been luxury to us.
40 degrees is, if not exactly common, then a fairly regular summer hazard here in Perth. Yet when the more "important" cities of Melbourne and Sydney get some, it's headline news for days.
Sky News has been going hysterical with this story for two days, trotting out the same tired hot weather cliches about old people suffering, dogs/kids in hot cars, bush fire risk and of course the cute stock footage showing zoo animals getting a treat of ice blocks.
They even showed some visiting Poms SUNBATHING in 40 degrees (ambulance not pictured).
Meanwhile, on the west coast, we just yawn and reach for another cold drink, turn the air con up another notch and get on with the summer.
I think it was Billy Connolly who pointed out that Australia is the only country in the world where the TV weather man apologises for hot, sunny weather: "well, I'm sorry folks, but tomorrow is going to be another scorcher and there's no relief in sight".
I take it
you get the same kind of dry heat we're used to in Adelaide?
I can't understand the attraction of living north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the humidity'd just kill me.
Agree about the East Coastcentricity of extreme weather reporting too.
Supposedly
we get dry heat, but it's become increasingly humid in recent years, which is the real killer.
They didn't mention that in the tourist brochures!
10.30 pm and 34 degrees
yes that's a yawn for Perth
possibly why it gets little coverage oh and relative population size / viewing audience
however 49 in december in the pilbara got a fair bit of coverage....now that's hot
We had 46 degrees
in Perth a few years ago. Now, that's just mental.
I wasn't trying to trivialise your current heatwave, Junior. I know exactly how distressing and uncomfortable the extreme hot weather can be. Roll on March, eh?
no probs
As it happens ABC radio did a detailedd piece on the remarkable heat wave that has hit sth australia
alas that usually means a day's wait before it hits us
I have got tickets for Womadelaide and there have been some real scorchers over the years -pray 2012 is not another one
Funny, we hang out for summer and then when it arrives, proper -it's roll on March
My brother's in Melbourne
He just posted a picture of the Arctic Monkeys' gig he attended, with the caption - '40 degrees -The Not So Arctic Monkeys!'
4 seasons in one day - all of them Summer!