The totally off-topic thread

[Pushka]

Well, since records began...

Well, that's all any records are based on, isn't it.

 

[anat0l]

Well, that's all any records are based on, isn't it.

Unless the previous records were destroyed, say in a fire caused by an intense heatwave (no offence or insensitivity intended to those who are or may be affected by bushfires)

Hoping for a cool change for all of you soon. Has the tar on the roads started melting yet (if it hasn't already become the perfect hotplate)? Are kids still going to school? (I think we had an unofficial policy of no work at 38 degC; no school / go home at 42 degC). Garden died yet? Anyone you know with a pool has had it evaporate out yet, or starting their own geothermal spa substitute?

Given our climate classification in QLD, the ability to handle hot weather is supposed to be an in-born given for almost all of us. Including those of us who are not fortunate enough to have or afford air conditioning. Of course, we are usually more used to elevated temperatures due to higher humidity rather than just outright high air temperature.

Our recent cool weather, especially in the evening, has been rather uncharacteristic. Couple that with high winds.....

 

[Pushka]

We only close schools here if the area has been determined as catastrophic. That happened on Tuesday to one area. But if that criteria of 38 applied then schools would have been closed for a week.

I remember asphalt bubbling and melting as a kid but they must have changed the formula. Gardens - well we will have a huge excess water bill. One of our trees is in the process of dying. Lots of smaller plants are at risk.

The last couple of days have been humid as well.

We are getting used to it. 38 seems quite manageable. There is a world of difference between that and 45.

 

[JohnK]

Forget heatwaves. Some people do not realise just how close the world came to extinction.

My flight today was on time. The past 2 flights were ~15 early and if this one was early as well Earth would have been doomed.

 

[blackcat20]

4o here right now. Some plants have called it quits. The lawn I planted in spring is looking rather crisp. And Im wishing I had aircon!

 

[Robbi]

Well, that's all any records are based on, isn't it.

'Ever' implies there has never been a hotter February day since 5,000,000,000 years BCE, when the world was formed (6,000 years BCE for creationists).

There have been whole epochs, or is it aeons?, eras?, when the temperature was higher, as was CO2, but I digress.

Of course, February is a roman month I believe, so that implies it is only the hottest day in 2,000 years of non-recorded weather history.

Sorry for the pedantry, but I've just survived the hottest February day since the BOM started making records and heat makes me more argumentative than usual.

 

[JohnK]

'Ever' implies there has never been a hotter February day since 5,000,000,000 years BCE, when the world was formed (6,000 years BCE for creationists).

Are those dates based on the Gregorian or Julian calendars?

 

[whatmeworry]

Forget heatwaves. Some people do not realise just how close the world came to extinction.

My flight today was on time. The past 2 flights were ~15 early and if this one was early as well Earth would have been doomed.

With your flights on time, that must mean the four horseman of apocalypse about are to appear?

Expect for the the four 40+ days in MEL, the other hot days have manageable because thankfully the cool changes have come in to cool the house down.
It helps that our home is double brick but you have to time opening up windows at the right time in the evening.

 

[amaroo]

I'm glad it's not 40+ up here.......my solar panels don't work so well when they get hot!

 

[Pushka]

'Ever' implies there has never been a hotter February day since 5,000,000,000 years BCE, when the world was formed (6,000 years BCE for creationists).

There have been whole epochs, or is it aeons?, eras?, when the temperature was higher, as was CO2, but I digress.

Of course, February is a roman month I believe, so that implies it is only the hottest day in 2,000 years of non-recorded weather history.

Sorry for the pedantry, but I've just survived the hottest February day since the BOM started making records and heat makes me more argumentative than usual.

Yeah. Pedantry indeed. Unfortunately our weather bureau's records of 2,000 years ago aren't up to scratch. And I think most people here recognise what a temperature record means. . But you are choosing not to. Why - I have no idea.

Yep. I'm cranky too. Deservedly so methinks, heat plus unarguable comments.

 

[DaveB]

I get the best and worst of both worlds. Live on Sydney's northern beaches and doubt we have had a day over 30 since mid December. Office though is at Bankstown and rare not to be mid 30's. Family down on SW slopes of NSW reckon the worst summer since they moved 30 years ago.

 

[Buzzard]

Hottest February day ever or not...... I don't really care. It's hot!
Thankfully it is a couple of degrees cooler where I live near Burnside.

 

[JohnK]

With your flights on time, that must mean the four horseman of apocalypse about are to appear?

They were almost there.

 

[straitman]

We went and had a BBQ lunch at our daughter's place at Hazelwood South today and broke our curse. Whilst it was not in the 40s it was in the high 30s but importantly there was no fires nearby.

We were there on Black Saturday when the Churchill fires started and every time since we have been there on hot days there have been fires. As recent as Australia Day we were there and the neighbour was slashing the block until his tractor caught fire. Fortunately between a couple of neighbours and ourselves we stopped the fire just before it reached the bush area and well before the CFA arrived. Once in the forest it would have gone for miles including burning across our only exit track.

 

[Pushka]

Very near me then straitman. Just a crossing of GHR.

 

[Buzzard]

Following the "hottest Feb ever" here in ADL, we now have drops of rain

 

[Flashback]

A lovely 10 degrees, blue skies and sunshine in London. Jealous yet? :mrgreen:

 

[Pushka]

A lovely 10 degrees, blue skies and sunshine in London. Jealous yet? :mrgreen:

:mrgreen:

I am sitting in front of the air conditioner and sweating still. Over 40 still and it's 7.30ish.

Following the "hottest Feb ever" here in ADL, we now have drops of rain

Blow them down here about a kilometre.

 

[whatmeworry]

A lovely 10 degrees, blue skies and sunshine in London. Jealous yet? :mrgreen:

I still love the heatwaves!

 

[JohnK]

A lovely 10 degrees, blue skies and sunshine in London. Jealous yet? :mrgreen:

Too cold. Keep it.