It’s not even noon, and we’re up to 38C already. The predicted max is 40C.
Thankfully I’m off to New Zealand on Monday where I hope it will be considerably cooler.
39 now and the cool change expected tomorrow. If I live that long, ugh.
I’m holed up in the law library at USyd, where the aircon is nice indeed!
Gleena- I’ve spent most of the day in North Sydney library, mainly for the airconditioning. I did pop home for lunch and, for fun, laid my thermometer on the patio. It read 48C. Unscientific I know, but still.
Wanna come to Bancroft and help me scrape ice off the car? It’s a nice pleasant -9C here tonight. I could give you some snow to take home.
48? Holy cow, Cunctator!
It’s a miserable 41 out there (that’s 105 to my American friends) and the library closes in 15 min. I do have aircon at home but it’s a reverse cycle and likely not up to this heat. Going out to dinner somewhere airconditioned and drink some cold white, I think.
Seadragon, Sunspace - I did my time in northern Michigan. I am mocking you. 
No thanks. No matter how freakin hot I am I do not have to shovel off anything to go anywhere!!
Hell yeah it was! I was up in Sydney today shooting a video for work and I had to sit and watch everyone on the beach at Bondi, without the option of getting close to getting in the water. Made the return to cold rainy Melbourne actually welcome.
Gotta love that. The expected overnight minimum tonight in Sydney is 26. The expected maximum tomorrow in Melbourne is 19.
The heat played havoc with kids sport.
Under “duty of care” coaches need to consider adjustments to playing conditions once temperatures rise above 31C. Would usually need to be above 36 before action was actually taken. But we had plenty of morning games called off today. Hell, it’s 33C at home inside at 11:30pm!
PT#1 had a bye this week so he was laughing.
PT#3 played his cricket match this morning without effect, they were by the harbour and got a bit of a breeze.
PT#2 was to play her game in the afternoon, a bit south of the airport. The official temperature at Kingsford Smith was 42C. One of the opposition parents put a termometer on the ground and reckoned it was on it’s way to 50 before they called the game off and scarpered for the nearest refridgerator.
I heard on the radio today that this is the hottest spell of weather in Sydney history. Apparently there have never been more than 5 days in a row over 30. After tomorrow it will be 7.
It seemed like rubbish to me but apparently not:
*Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) senior forecaster Neale Fraser said that Saturday was officially the sixth successive day that the Sydney area had sweltered in 30-plus temperatures.
Since records were first kept in 1858, Sydney had never experienced such consistently high temperatures.
“We’ve had runs of hot weather for three or four days but you get a southerly change that keeps it below 30 then it warms up again,” Mr Fraser told AAP.
The previous record was five straight days.*
It’s generally been around 10F around here, with frequent snow (more snow than I have ever seen).
I’ll take this snow and cold any day over +100F weather!
I’d love to stay and chat, but I’ve got to go clear snow off the roof.
When I lived in the desert, 38ºC was normal in the Summer. (Actually, 41ºC was closer to normal.) In L.A. 38º was awful.
When I lived in Vegas, 38 at midnight was normal. But we all had aircon. Almost nobody here does.
It’s now 30 at 9am. Cool change expected today!
We had a swamp cooler, which worked well enough – as long as you turned it on first thing in the morning. I spent a lot of time riding my motorcycle. Unfortunately, if I wasn’t ‘going riding’ I’d often wear shorts. Oh, yeah… Hot desert sun, black vinyl seat, exposed skin…
Swamp coolers are great for dry heat. Sydney tends to be a bit humid unfortunately.
Yep. That’s why they didn’t have them in L.A.
Here’s some snow.
Picture one: the intersection of Highway 12 and Myrtle Road north of Whitby, Ontario, two weeks ago. The temperature was around -20C.
Picture two: the view out the kitchen window a couple of hours ago. Temperature: -10C.
To the OP and those countering with snow, I’ll quote my dad.
‘Better thee than me!’
We’ve had a chinook come through in the last few days. A week ago, it was -33C, and I spent the weekend shovelling. Yesterday, it was 7C, and a lot of the snow is gone. Roads still have ice patches, and piles of shovelled snow still exist (though they look pretty grotty), but it’s been a nice break.
Winter is far from over, though. Still a few months to go. Hope it doesn’t last until May this year–last year, I was playing golf in April, but snowstorms in May kept me off the course.