Top temperature here (Adelaide) yesterday was 45.6C. Apparently it was hotter on my decking.
Same here, but I do have to drive.
In our house when I was growing up, you were allowed to complain about the cold or the hot but not both. I decided long ago that I hate the hot a lot more. So I’ll take the snowstorm.
How do you cope with such high temperatures without air conditioning? 43.5 / 105 is the temperature of a severe fever.
I’m so glad that the hot weather seems to be staying down south at the moment. Max today in Sydney of about 28.
I was in (okay, slightly north of) Adelaide in 2000, when the temperature reached 47 C. I would certaibly prefer what I have just now (-1 C).
I hate you.
I hate you.
No seriously. I hate you. Right now. Feel my hot, sleep-deprived hate 
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I’ve given hubby a directive to stay home from work today. He’s having another anaemia attack at the moment, which means he has problems regulating his body temp even on nice, normal days.
Just so you know… I’m now 1.5 hours into a bus ride that should take 35 minutes because of the weather. Want some snow? We have plenty. It would be no trouble. Honest.
Yike! It never gets that hot here. Ever.
Yay dude. Hope you’re dressed well enough to cope with the weather.
And at least you’re not driving.
PAH! You Victorians don’t know what hot is!
Actually, that is pretty hot, but I’m just glad it’s not us for a change.
Back in the days before aircon, I remember the swimming pools used to stay open till midnight on really hot days (actually they may be doing it tonight - I should check this out). Also, houses were sensibly designed for the heat, with verandahs and eves (both conspicuously absent from my current house which is a total heat trap) and when it got cool at night you could water your house and let the breeze help cool it down overnight. And heaven help you if you left the doors open.
Speaking of which, my insane neighbors seem to hold to the “elderly folks who grew up in europe” style of house-cooling (which I recall my grandma used to subscribe to) - they’ve got all the blinds shut and the doors OPEN! Does not work here! (not unless it’s already 40 inside, in which case heaven help you)
Maybe I should check on 'em later on in case they’ve both succumbed to heat stroke!
ETA: FUUUUUUUCK! adds Marble Bar to list of places never to live in
And after an overnight low of 28 C, it’s currently 36. Well on its way to a predicted high of 43.
I mock your overnight low of 28. Pah. Spit in it’s general direction.
I’ve done 119 degrees in the Sonoran desert and I’ve done -44 degrees by Lake Superior.
I’ll take either of them over 94 degrees with 99% humidity (one fine Baltimore summer).
We should be getting temperatures like that within the month, for maybe a week. We’ll call it the February thaw, and laugh at ourselves for leaving our jackets open, saying it’s ‘balmy’, and mooning over the seed catalogues.
Here, we measure temperature in Fahrenheit and ‘balmy’ refers to warm gentle weather, not looniness.
I fully expect my house, car, and driveway to be coating in perfect sheet of ice in the morning, and I will still try to drive to work, because I will have lost power and have no heat.
I still don’t envy you in the least.
Sounds hideous. Strangely enough, I actually pulled up the blankets early this morning.
Damn you. Today the minimum in Melbourne is going to be 29.
I’ve had the air con on for over 24 hours now.
+1
And baRmy means loony, not baLmy…
Oh, not me. I can’t get much done with 100 lbs of warm crap piled on me. I can strip down to a pair of shorts and get lots of work done.