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That being said, I'm sure you'll get in on the action tomorrow or even later today. Scoresby is currently 31.6C. That can't be too far from where you are?
With what is happening right now, these are prophetic words...
I was watching a little of the Australian Open last night because I heard about the heat. I usually don't like or watch tennis (I like (American) football, golf, hockey, basketball, baseball, in that order). It was 102 when I was watching, but got up to 108, I hear. I guess that's just the air temperature away from the courts, because I'd imagine it would be even hotter on the tennis courts themselves. Especially with the sun, it seemed quite brutal. Unsurprisingly, I heard a few players ended up with heat related illnesses. No way would I sit through that if I were a spectator.
^^^ Enjoy while it lasts! If it's going to be hot, it might as well be jaw-droppingly hot beyond anything I can get my head around. Look at that 45 C forecast for Adelaide!
You can thank the blocking high in the Tasman for that. The Tasman Sea high brings heatwaves to SE Aus and cold SW'ly changes to NZ on the other side. I noticed Invercargill was 9C at Midday yesterday! In terms of the number of 30C+ days, Christchurch has it better than most though because of the Foehn Effect. I'd imagine Greymouth on the opposite coast rarely sees 30C.
Probably, although we're now halfway through "summer" and haven't seen over 26 C.
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So much for Melbourne being ''subarctic''
My thoughts exactly. But I'm sure we'll start hearing again how Melbourne is the Reykjavik of the South as soon as the highs drop below 30 C.
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Insane temperatures in Melbourne overnight. This should keep the fail whales in Bass Strait for a little while longer :P. As usual, Sydney may as well be on another planet with a comfortable 17C overnight at my local station. We'll cop some humidity though.
Re the thunderstorms, when temps are that high you can get lightning out of anything since the cells are very high based. Fires then become a real concern, so I'd rather not have them if I were in your position.
What are the record high minimums for Melbourne like?
Record high low is 30.6C .
The overnight low ended up being 28.6C, still damn hot. Laverton had 39C at 11:55pm, after jumping from 29C at 10:30pm!!!!! You can see it in one of the above pics.
I went outside at 2:00am the air felt like a hairdryer and it was actually spitting raindrops. Saw a few flashes of lightning aswell. According to the obs, it was 36C at that time
Adelaide had 45C yesterday, forecast for today is 45C and tomorrow 46C!
Currently 38C /100F at 11am and cloudy. Pretty humid aswell.
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