My thoughts are with you for what it's worth.
Tell your brother to move!!!

The heatwave is nearly over here - just 33 today and tomorrow, 40 again on Friday, then a change coming through sometime on Saturday, high in mid thirties, then highs in the mid twenties for the rest of next week. :) Melbourne will not get the change until Sunday and so Saturday there will be well over 40.

33 is nice; we're calling it the new 25.

Meanwhile...
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heh, great pic.

They lied to me.

Friday is aiming for 43, and Saturday's cool change looks like coming in later, and so 40 to 44 is expected. They're expecting Sydney to go over 40 this weeekend too.

pump some of that heat this way.....the cold is soaking up through the floor into my feet and legs here.

We havent had a day under 40 for over a week, and the heat at nite is unpleasant.

Things are on the improve though....

Friday 16 / 41
Saturday 21 / 43
Sunday 20 / 33
Monday 12 / 27

No rain forecast for the next 3 months....:(

Its 40 degrees here today. If I didn't have a 25 minute walk to work at seven in the morning, around 5 degrees at that time, I would consider wearing shorts.

2C here today and yesterday (35.6F apparently)

I went into town yesterday just wearing a jumper (sweater).
My Dad had gone to the supermarket - naughty, naughty on a day when only essential travel was advised!
He was coming off the roundabout and saw someone dressed in pink.
He told Mum when he got home, "I knew it had to be Cherry, no-one else would be out without a coat in this weather" adding, "anyway, I could see her smile from the top of Elmhurst Road."

Which made me very happy.

WTF??? Minnesota? February? Are you talking centigrade or farenheit?

Melbourne's had a respite from the heat for a week as the heat retreated north, but it is back with a vengeance today. 44C is forecast ahead of a cool change. The forecast is notable for being higher than the record maximum for Melbourne for February. The record maximum for February is (I think) 43.2 set on February 8, 1983. That day brought us a dust storm:
http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vr...sand_storm.jpg
Outside, my thermometer is reading 44C in the shade.

Not only has it been hot, it has also been dry. Rainfall in the Melbourne rain gauge since January 4th: 0. If we're lucky, the 35-day dry spell will be broken this evening with a few light showers. For Melbourne, the record for the most number of consecutive days without rain is 40 days.

The heat wave has had many consequences:
Melbourne morgue full after heatwave deaths
The fire conditions are rated as the 'the worst ever' according to some.
A bushfire east of Melbourne in the Bunyip State Park has broken containment lines and threatens homes.

Melbourne has just broken the all-time heat record, reaching 46C at 2.28pm. Some suburbs have reached 47C. I can tell you that's bloody hot.

The previous record was 45.6C set on January 13, 1939.

Holy snapping frog shit batman! That's farking hot!!!

I feel sorry for you lot. I hope it eases very soon.

we are covered in smoke and kinda concerned if they don't get the fires under control before the wind change this evening.

we don't want another ash wednesday, I would link to those fires, but im posting on my mobile phone.

There's a cool change on the way, due within the hour.

The peak was 46.4 at about 3 pm. I had to go out at that time for a few minutes to bring in my washing and it felt really hot. With a relative humidity below 10%, it was a very dry heat. My washing felt quite hot to the touch, like it had just been removed from a tumble dryer.

The thing I noticed most wasn't the heat, or the strong winds. It was the sky. Instead of the blue that I am used to, it was almost devoid of colour. It is unusual to see a grey, yet almost cloudless sky.
http://www.bdm.id.au/images/grey-cloudless-sky.jpg

We get skies like that up here, but usually that's on days when the humidity is really high.

Must be dust and smoke particles in the air.