Hot, hot, hot!
Someone can turn down the thermostat here anytime they like. Here are the current conditions courtesy of weatherzone.com.au and as you can see it is just a touch warm. Today is the hottest temperature we have ever experienced in our lives and combined with the strong winds and single digit humidity tensions are running very high. The last time conditions were like this was during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983. The fire danger index is supposed to clear 110 today on a scale where 50 is considered extreme. People are being asked to stay home and not go into the bush at all and many parks in Victoria have been closed to the public for the day.
This is on the second week of warm temperatures which have had a record 6 days over 40 degrees when the average for this area is one or two days over 40 a year. Dad picked a good time to come over and experience some heat. So far he hasn't been suffering too bad, staying in range of air conditioning in the hottest part of the day and at least with the low humidity the temperature has been cooling to comfortable temperatures at night.
A cool change is scheduled to come through this afternoon and drop the temperatures up to 20 degrees with cool south ocean winds, and hopefully it does so without thunderstorms or major damaging winds. While Australians can't fathom a storm day in Canada where snow and ice close down everything, most Canadians who melt in 30 degree weather would have a difficult time comprehending the experience of hot devastating weather. With extreme weather becoming more common globally perhaps it won't be long until we all are forced to adapt.
On the plus side we are spending a lot of time at the wonderful Halls Gap swimming pool and Aiden has become a fish. Victoria has also learned the importance of information on days like today and have an impressive website where you can see what is going on with fire around the state.
This is on the second week of warm temperatures which have had a record 6 days over 40 degrees when the average for this area is one or two days over 40 a year. Dad picked a good time to come over and experience some heat. So far he hasn't been suffering too bad, staying in range of air conditioning in the hottest part of the day and at least with the low humidity the temperature has been cooling to comfortable temperatures at night.
A cool change is scheduled to come through this afternoon and drop the temperatures up to 20 degrees with cool south ocean winds, and hopefully it does so without thunderstorms or major damaging winds. While Australians can't fathom a storm day in Canada where snow and ice close down everything, most Canadians who melt in 30 degree weather would have a difficult time comprehending the experience of hot devastating weather. With extreme weather becoming more common globally perhaps it won't be long until we all are forced to adapt.
On the plus side we are spending a lot of time at the wonderful Halls Gap swimming pool and Aiden has become a fish. Victoria has also learned the importance of information on days like today and have an impressive website where you can see what is going on with fire around the state.
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Who would ever have guessed that we would end up with a day far far worse than Ash Wednesday. Over 200 people dead and over 7,000 homeless it is so very hard to comprehend.
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