Perhaps one of the reasons the move to the Emirates looks so enticing at the moment is that Bert arrived home to Melbourne on the hottest day in recorded history. It reached 46.4 celcius or 117 farenheit. Apart from the brain frying heat, we had gale force winds and the humidity was 6%. So anyone who tries to tell me a dry heat is a good thing has never lived through a day like today.
We have fires all across Victoria. As most of our friends know when we moved to the suburbs because I never want to live with the fear of fires like I did every summer in Macedon. Six houses in suburban Narre Warren, just a few minutes from Berwick were burnt this afternoon.
There are no bush fires in Abu Dhabi are there? It's desert right, that won't burn.
Today was a day of wild weather extremes across Australia as floodwaters rose in northern Queensland while more than 100 thousand firefighters remained on standby in the three southeastern states.
More than 40 blazes are burning in Victoria and New South Wales as a heatwave pushed the mercury as high as 47 degrees accompanied by strong winds and South Australia faces its 13th straight day of searing heat.
For more on the Victorian fires click here.
Melbourne recorded its hottest day since records began 150 years ago, peaking at 46.4 degrees.
The town of Avalon, 50km south-west of Melbourne, also smashed its heat record, reaching 47.9 degrees
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Hi... no fires that I am aware of! But the temperature can go higher, 50 and maybe 55C isn't unknown in the summer and with high humidity which is horrible. Officially the temperature never actually reaches 50C, as there is a law that says work then has to stop, and that's gonna cost way too much!
ReplyDeleteThat it gets humid there really surprised me! I imagine desert= no humidity. I intend to live in airconditioning my two requisites, air con and an internet connection. Well three, diet coke, but I could learn to live without that I guess.
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