This is what it’s like over here today.
Top temperature today: 43.4 degrees C. That’s 110F for those playing along in the USA. Tipped to be the same for the next two days, then dropping to a cool and temperate 35C (95F).
I. Hate. The. Hot!
Eh, I’ll take that over single digit temps and icy roads any day.
Me too. I live in Arizona, and we routinely get temperatures that high in our summer. Even now, in January, daytime highs get to around 65 or 70 degrees, although it can drop into the 40’s at night. I’ll still take that over snow and ice, though.
Aspidistra, you suck 
I’ll take that any day over 3 hours of twilight, sleigh and ice…
Ha! I came here looking for a thread from a Victorian or a South Aussian just to vent this very same climatic sentiment. Hi Aspidistra, fancy meeting you here. 
By FUCK it’s hot. I’m now on the border of NSW and Vic, and it’s already been hot and dry for some time, but after today…geeeeeeeezus. It got to 44 here, but has dropped now to a balmy 34 (9.00pm). Should make sleeping a veritable treat tonight eh? Thank friggin’ Og for inventing aircon, that’s all I can say.
The funniest thing I saw though was watching the magpies come cruising for a drink in the birdbath in the front yard. They’d have a sip or two, then realise how wonderfully wet it was…peek around to make sure no-one was watching, then go a skinny-dipping in the bowl.
Five minutes later they’d be back, beaks open and gasping and hanging out for more wet. So hot, even the birds (with the Murray within spitting distance) are suffering.
And now we can expect a few more days before relief. Fuck. :mad:
Our aircon actually gave up around 4:30 and I had to turn it off - it was just blowing hot air around the house. Fortunately, now tht we’re at a positively arctic 37C it seems to have recovered its mojo. I’m sure aircons are breaking right and left all over the city 
That bird thing reminds me of another stinker a few years ago - when it was the HOTTEST JAN DAY EVAH!!1! (well, for 60 years anyway). We were at the botanic gardens for a wedding, and as the afternoon wore on we started to see all the bats come out and go for a dip one after the other in the lily lake. Too hot for them to sleep!
(BTW - remind me not to move to Arizona! ;))
Rather foolishly, I went out into town today, to do something I had promised.
It was about 41°C at the time, and got even hotter a couple of hours later when I finally got home again.
Argh!!!
I have decided I will stay indoors for the next three days.
I had a call from my housemates in Melbourne about 2 hours ago asking how to turn on the airconditioner down there…I explained the process in easy steps, but they couldn’t seem to get it to work.
Another call followed five minutes later that NOTHING electrical was working in the house, and I suggested that there might well be a blackout. :rolleyes: Y’know, at peak power-consumption periods, these things happen, right?
Hey, at least if the weather is cold you can bung more jumpers on and snuggle under a doona or two. If it’s too friggin’ hot, there’s nothing for it but to walk down to the beach and drown yer’self.
I hate The Hot, too, but today we’re dealing with the remnants of snow from yesterday, which turned into sleet overnight. Everything is covered in a half-inch of ice, and everything is closed (schools and gov’t offices).
I still have to go to work, though.
Could you somehow send a couple hours’ worth of The Hot to us, so all this crap will melt? Thanks so much.
Although I hate the icy roads, I think I hate 110F worse.
We’re in the middle of a snowstorm here. I think we may be able to work out a trade.
I’m not that far away from Sunspace, so…what he said. Except the bit about the trade. I’d rather have the snowstorm than 43C. Blech. Warm weather is nice, yes, but I hate being hot.
I’ll trade you.
At least when it’s hot, I don’t have to worry about slipping on ice or snow and hurting myself. And I don’t have to do the drudgery that is scattering salt around on the walkways, or the worse drudgery that is shoveling snow.
If I ever get really rich, I will spend 6 months of every year in the US and 6 months in Australia, so I never have to deal with snow or late sunrises/early sunsets again.
I’m not fond of temps below about 10F but I’d rather that than 110F. I hate heat so much I moved partly just to get away from it. People think it gets hot here. They don’t know from hot. Nobody has AC here. Nobody needs it.
It’s all of 9F right now. It is cold. At least we don’t get ice storms. Those of you who do, be careful. I’ve seen a few of those. No fun at all.
The weather complaints from down under are always so anti-climatic.
Anyhow, it’s 80 degrees F here in south FLA so I’m not complaining.
If there were a single spot in the world with perfect climate, we’d be all killiing each other to live there.
I live in Minnesota, and we’ve had downright frigid temps here on and off for weeks, hitting -20 degrees F with windchills so bad that schools were closed.
But I live here because I don’t mind the cold and I like the summers because while they can get hot, they only rarely get beastly hot.
So, how hot is it in Darwin?
I’d rather be in a cold place, and pile on the layers - sweaters, slippers etc than in sweltering heat and have to spend the whole day showering to cool off
For the last few weeks us Florida folk been freezing our nips off. Chilly and windy as hell, but we just put on another jacket and cope. Today it’s 80 degrees out and the humidity is absolutely killer. More cold, please!
Yes! More cold! I LOVED being able to wear my cold clothes.
Just got out of a meeting, they’re letting us go home early. And I take the bus so I don’t have to drive in it!