# Southern Australian Dopers - how are you coping with the heat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482 "2010-01-11T04:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/21 "2010-01-11T18:32:15Z")
I’m up at 5am breasfeeding, and it’s already the day’s high of 33. It doesn’t help to be clutching a 4kg hot waterbottle to myself! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/22 "2010-01-11T20:20:07Z")
> [@Girl\_From\_Mars](#): > > I’m up at 5am breasfeeding, and it’s already the day’s high of 33. It doesn’t help to be clutching a 4kg hot waterbottle to myself! You might need to try Chaddie today then **Girl From Mars.** 😃 Just listening to ABC Riverina Radio, and seeing as it’s already 31 here (7.15 am), the BOM guy reckons we MIGHT have broken the overnight temp record (again). Too friggin hot. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/23 "2010-01-11T21:02:01Z")
Does it cool at night? I recall in Chicago in the early 90s we had a bad heatwave an hundred of people died. The experts said the reason for the deaths were that at night it didn’t cool off. It would only get down to like 88º (31ºC) and then shoot up over 100º (38ºC) in the day for weeks on end with no break ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/24 "2010-01-11T21:35:45Z")
Not last night - min temp overnight here was 31.5ºC it is now nearly 35ºC at 8:30am. Tell you what I am glad I sheared the rabbit as he does not cope at all with temps over 30ºC (He does look a bit funny though) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/25 "2010-01-11T21:38:42Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Does it cool at night? It cools at night just by virtue of the sun going the fuck away. 😃 Over the last few nights though, the temps have stayed up in the high twenties (very uncomfortable) and last night in Melbourne the temp hovered around the early thirties (too damned hot to sleep). In the urban areas of course with all that concrete and those brick houses fairly close together, any drop in temp is negated by the stored heat that continues to radiate throughout the night. I’m in a rural area thank Christ (and in a timber house), but by 7.30 this morning I was already dousing myself in a cold shower to rid myself of a worked-up sweat. It’s gonna be another fucker of a day, but relief may be in sight with a cool change predicted to cross the region later on. So that means tomorrow it’s _only_ going to be 35! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/26 "2010-01-11T22:07:54Z")
30 degrees Celsius = 86 degrees Fahrenheit right now (9:06am). 40 degrees Celsius = 104 degrees Fahrenheit predicted top, probably in a couple of hours. The aircon at work is working poorly at the moment, so I’m sweating in suit and tie in an office full of PCs trying to ignore the heat (and the work), but I just know by the end of the day there will loads of stinky around. ---
**Author:** ![bettyporkta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@bettyporkta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bettyporkta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/27 "2010-01-11T22:49:35Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > 43.6 here yesterday today was supposed to be hotter. > [http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/201001/html/IDCJDW2039.201001.shtml](http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/201001/html/IDCJDW2039.201001.shtml) > Thank God for my excellent aircon it wasn’t god who gave you your aircon, it was god who gave you the 43.6…😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/28 "2010-01-11T22:52:45Z")
We’ve got a warmer maximum predicted today for the city (31C), but nothing as bad as the southern states yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/29 "2010-01-12T00:22:30Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:20, topic:524482”] 20 is a bit cool isn’t it? I think my ideal would be something like Broome’s dry season all year around. I can get that for six months in Broome but need somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere for the other six. [/QUOTE] I think I’m just wired for cold weather. Unless there’s a nice breeze I start getting uncomfortable at 25. I had a surprisingly good sleep, though I feel somewhat unwholesome for having the a/c on all night. I keep trying to drag the cats into the study for their own good but they seem to enjoy lying in the heat. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/30 "2010-01-12T00:31:08Z")
Hot dman hot, I am coping OK because I work in an office and the kids have got aircon at home. But you try keeping the kids locked up inside for few days! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/31 "2010-01-12T16:57:47Z")
Box up some of that warm weather and ship it up here to us in the States, will you? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/32 "2010-01-12T21:46:58Z")
Some bugger done gone and pinched the heat (not that I’m complaining). 17.9ºC as of 8.00am. Overcast too so possibly rain may be in the offing. Sorry **Clothahump** we seem to have run out of the warm _(wandering off to search for a jumper)_ ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/33 "2010-01-12T21:59:18Z")
Lo I am the mighty MADRABBITWOMAN who can coax the rain from the skies. Nothing like rain on a tin roof - my body goes into instant relaxation mode at the sound of the first drops. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/34 "2010-01-12T22:25:26Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Lo I am the mighty MADRABBITWOMAN who can coax the rain from the skies. > > Nothing like rain on a tin roof - my body goes into instant relaxation mode at the sound of the first drops. I’m sure the cool change, and the rain, must have come as a wonderful relief **madrabbitwoman**. We had a storm here too last night, although it’s still fairly warm and humid today. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/35 "2010-01-12T22:43:48Z")
We’ve certainly cooled down a bit, but no rain here. I’ve even got a tin roof and all. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482/36 "2010-01-13T03:25:56Z")
Makes you wonder about places such as Baghdad, where in a three month period average high is 42, the lowest maximum is 35, and lowest at any point is 23. > **[Local Weather Forecast, News and Conditions | Weather Underground](https://www.wunderground.com/?cm_ven=cgi)** > > Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-australian-dopers-how-are-you-coping-with-the-heat/524482.md?page=1)