Is it bloody HOT!!!!!!

[RG]

At 1603 Melbourne hit a top of 44.7.

[blueoval]

I have noticed my a/c in my car gets icey cold after about 10 mins of constant driving. I love it. Especially on a day like today.

[TZENU]

Lovely 44!!!!... and that bloody fire in Churchill Park is pratically in my backyard.... :

[Marduk]

Originally Posted by SB076

Could be some people especially with older cars, might be struggling in the heat (the cars) so they are trying to take it easy on the car so they get home. However for the majority who knows, I had to go out before and saw some crazy things (people turning right from the left lane - just forcing there way across traffic, think some people have had enough and just try to get home doesnt matter who gets in their way) Probably raising the temperature in not only their own cabins but also the cars around them.

Are we having black outs or brown outs????

The cars im talking about are not old cars. I can understand if people in old cars were having trouble but i'm talking about people in new'ish car with no reason to have to slow down.

44c here :

[Captain Falcon]

Managed to get off work at 2:30 today.

Got to the point where i had to sit in front of a fan and dump 2 liters of near frozen water on my face. It was good for a whole 30 seconds.

The best part of these few 43+ degree days was sitting in the XR to and from work with the aircon blasting.

: ICE ICE BABY :

[Romulus]

Originally Posted by Russell

At 1603 Melbourne hit a top of 44.7.

Today? I remember when it hit 46.2 back in the 90's....damn that was hot!

[Campo81]

Originally Posted by TVS Super Pursuit

Today? I remember when it hit 46.2 back in the 90's....damn that was hot!

Didn't it reach that only a few years ago? I remember going to the pools and you could barely move it there!

[JG66ME]

Originally Posted by Campo81

Didn't it reach that only a few years ago? I remember going to the pools and you could barely move it there!

New years eve 05 I think. Or there abouts.

[Walkinshaw]

Originally Posted by Inducted_Breeze

I LMAO at the large amount of coverage this has been given. Over here in Perth, 40 degree temps is just known as 'Wednesday' LOL.

Year after year we see these kinds of temps over here and for once the winds have changed and the eastern states have gotten it and all of a sudden the cities are on the verge of shutting down (according to a recent News.com.au article)....LMAO

Having lived in both Adelaide & WA, Perth's "heat" isn't jack on SE Aus. Above Karratha is another story though

You're right though, the media makes it into a ****ing contest - my city's hotter than yours! morons.

[Whitey-AMG]

Today burnt my hand on the door handle when going back into the office....LOL

Then........ on the way home today in Scoresby VIC.....ICC in the GT.
Drove home without the aircon as well.........I just love the heat......:togo:
Also confirmed by another external thermometer at work.

[Kamshaaft]

^ It's going to take a lot of digging up, but a couple years ago I got an O/S temp reading of 50 degrees at some point across the Nullarbor. ..and people tell me till they're blue in the face that it's never been 50 degrees anywhere in Australia ever.

Originally Posted by TVS Super Pursuit

Today? I remember when it hit 46.2 back in the 90's....damn that was hot!

Mighta been back in 96 or 97. We had to go from Wagga Wagga to Melbourne during a hardcore heatwave around that time, in an ED with broken/no air conditioning.

[Jack91]

Does anyone know when this is supposed to end??????? It's nearly 40 in tasmania, and my house and car dont have aircon!!!!!!!!I lived in FN qld for 15 years and never experienced anything remotely as hot as this!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hords]

Originally Posted by Russell

At 1603 Melbourne hit a top of 44.7.

Peaked at 45.1° at 16:27, just ½° short of the record.

[graham_h]

Damn thats miserable for you guys in 40c+ heat
high 20's in Brissy today with a nice breeze :-)

[Spanrz]

I was working outside most of the day, I had a stupid Farenheit thermometer that recorded this temp in a shed I work in.
It was marginally cooler outside in the sun.
Package this with full overalls and glass cab's with no air con...You get the picture. F..kn' Hot

First pic is Jan 29-08 47 C (117F)
Second pic is Jan 30-08 48 C (119F)
Sorry about the quality, stupid phone camera won't focus in close.
These were temps from inside the shed. (first pic is outside for the light)

[78XC]

It was 47C in our pagola (I think thats how you spell it), when I came in to have a drink from wreaking a ZL Fairlane. Get inside (I love aircon!) Get into a different set of clothing and lay under a fan for about half an hour... Then back to the maddness...
Thanks,
Andrew

[cool65]

Originally Posted by TZENU

Lovely 44!!!!... and that bloody fire in Churchill Park is pratically in my backyard.... :

about 3km from my house, when I walk outside and all you can smell is smoke
won't reach my house though - but if it gets to the transmission lines 500mt away - 2/3 of melbourne could be without power!!

[3vXT]

'bout 20deg here in breezy Newcastle

[timace]

Originally Posted by 93_eb_fairmont

Does anyone know when this is supposed to end??????? It's nearly 40 in tasmania, and my house and car dont have aircon!!!!!!!!I lived in FN qld for 15 years and never experienced anything remotely as hot as this!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, one of our area managers who lives in Launceston was in shock. It hit 40 or 41 there today.

We've had our run of excessively hot weather in Western Sydney.

January has averaged 31 where I am, which is about 3 or 4 degrees higher than the average last January. 14 days so far this month over 30, 2 of which have been over 40!

I was at Blacktown yesterday and the ICC was reading 44. Have seen it hit 47 or so a few times.

Originally Posted by Kamshaaft

and people tell me till they're blue in the face that it's never been 50 degrees anywhere in Australia ever.

The highest recorded temp in Australia is 50.7 in Oodnatta in 1960 or 53 in Cloncurry in the late 19th Century, depends on which site you read.
The BOM records temps in the shade, which is going to be significantly different to direct sunlight temps on your ICC.

[brenx]

I was suprised to see my boss out in the ute today catching up with our drivers to hand out cold drinks from a very large esky. It was timed beautifully, all my frozen drinks were getting warm by 10:30am.

[Rooster]

52 Deg C in the Workshop today, spent the last 5 minutes looking at the Ozmist products.

Ozmist

you may have seen these around, ab so lute ly bloody gold!!

[Pinch]

Feel for you guys. While I don't mind a dry heat, days on end is a bit much.

Here is a pic of my outside temp readout from the Thursday before last in Sydney. It was taken in the Shire around 3 pm. I had been driving for a while so its propably a pretty accurate air temp. The Mini temp is always the same as my NC, Forester, and Oregon Scientific weather station at home so I think its right on.

Its a bit blurry, but says 45.5!

... and no, the roof was up with the air con blasting!!!

[DJM83]

Geezz talk about a heat wave, its times like these im glad i dont live vback home (Albury) Was a nice 28 here in Brisbane today.
Hope the fires dont affect anyone on here

[PHATAL]

Wicked! We are having a cool change tomorrow! It's gonna be 41!

http://www.weather.com.au/sa/roxby-downs

Spent all day digging holes in the sun today not fun at all. Had some pizza from the fridge in my lunch box today. When I went to eat them they were that hot the cheese was runny like they had just come out the oven.

[revcore]

Easily the hottest temperature I've ever seen here in Bairnsdale.....48.7 IN THE SHADE!!!!

[schultzie]

well how good is it out side now... the macccas run was more than pleasant

[BPXR6T]

Originally Posted by Kamshaaft

^ It's going to take a lot of digging up, but a couple years ago I got an O/S temp reading of 50 degrees at some point across the Nullarbor. ..and people tell me till they're blue in the face that it's never been 50 degrees anywhere in Australia ever.



Mighta been back in 96 or 97. We had to go from Wagga Wagga to Melbourne during a hardcore heatwave around that time, in an ED with broken/no air conditioning.

Pft, who ever told you it's never been 50 is full of it. The highest recorded temp was 50.7 in Oodnadatta.

I recall two years ago it got to 52 in the shade on the porch at my parents place in NW Victoria.

[revcore]

Originally Posted by OEM330

52 Deg C in the Workshop today, spent the last 5 minutes looking at the Ozmist products.

Ozmist

you may have seen these around, ab so lute ly bloody gold!!

Just emailed them requesting further info/prices

[EgoFG]

Is it just me or does the tennis logo seem to highlight the BO
This is not quite the correct logo, but it is here too


Did they know it would be hot ?

[arlester]

Up here in Townsville it hasn't stopped raining for a week and was at 24 as a max today. freezing cold.

Do feel sorry for you guys though that are dealing with the heat in long shirts and trousers all day.