Heatwave in SE Australia

[ZenGum]

Hey, Kingswood, thanks for posting all the details for me. Saved me the trouble.

Man, this sucks.

On the bright side I am back at work this week, being paid to sit inside an air-conditioned building.

On the crappy side, I left work at 5 pm and walked in as much shade as possible to the train station, to find my line was closed because the tracks had buckled in the heat. Free water and a free bus later I got home at about at 6pm, which was not too bad really, except that the temperature was still 44.5.

Tonight's forecast minimum is 32.

The bushfires are a real worry. Tomorrow will be a very high risk day, and there are several serial arsonists lighting fires around the city/country transition. Fuckers.


ETA: last summer we had a record 16 days in a row over 35 - most were well over it.

And wow, that's my 3,000th post.