Today was our first taste of the heatwave that tormented the southern states over the last couple of weeks. We've had consistently high temperatures (37-39 deg.) for most of the last couple of weeks, but we've been spared the extremes that Melbourne, Adelaide and then Sydney endured. The cool change that brought relief to those places has now pushed the hot air here :(
So today our temperature reached 43 degrees at our place (42.6 to be more precise). :yikes:
I thought that this might have been a record, but was surprised to find it's not that uncommon. Over the last 15 years that I've been recording temperatures here, it hasn't exceeded 43 degrees but we have reached it on 6 occasions- 9/1/94, 28/11/97, 13/1/99, 26/12/03, 7/1/04 and 9/2/09.
Tomorrow is expected to be about 38 degrees and then the cool change will kick in and we will be down to high 20s to mid 30s for the rest of the week. :yes:
It sounds lovely. Last night I needed two electric blankets and 4 cats to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteLast night it only got down to about 30 degrees. It was a no blanket and kick all cats away kind of night! We have cloud and a little humidity this morning and there are forecasts of possibly some much needed rain.
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