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37C is nothing to crow home about.... it's just hot. I've seen 47C here... that is a different breed of heat from your typical 30C, or even 40C. It starts to smell almost like acrid smoke outside as the sun bakes the concrete. Flies and mosquitoes dissappear, and spiders come out of their daylight hideouts. You sweat, but it evaporates and you feel an intense spot of heat and solar radiation on your face. Metal fixtures burn your hand. The brick walls of your house burn your hand. Walking on concrete or timber barefoot will earn you 3rd degree burns. Once you hit the mid 40s, you are in a different world from your average summer day.
Im unhappy cause forecast says Its supposed to be 90f tomorrow!!
oh, and btw, i agree with dunno what to put here, 37 is VERY hot! The fact that are places that have higher temperature does not mean that 37 isnt horribly hot.
typical downgrade in temps in the forecast, now 21C days and 11C nights all next week with the typical natural showers in this pathetic subarctic maritime puss bucket of a climate
I'm always baffled when people from Melbourne complain about their climate. By global standards it's very warm and sunny with barely a winter to talk about. Plus, temperatures in excess of 40C have been reached their many times, try finding that in a proper maritime climate.
I'm always baffled when people from Melbourne complain about their climate. By global standards it's very warm and sunny with barely a winter to talk about. Plus, temperatures in excess of 40C have been reached their many times, try finding that in a proper maritime climate.
Melbourne is not sunny. The 2300 hours at the airport (northwest of the city, the sunniest part of Melbourne - the wetter eastern suburbs are cloudier) is mediocre at best. From sunshine maps and data I've seen, I'd wager about 80% of the USA for example has more sunshine , heck even places like Boston get more sun. In Australia, the only places cloudier would be parts of Tasmania and the extreme coastal strip of Victoria and the SW extremeties of WA. Don't know how it compares to Europe outside of the usual cloud zones along the baltic/north sea etc, but the Mediterranean states are no doubt vastly sunnier (not to mention warmer - some even in winter!)
Ofcourse, Melbourne gets a a couple of days over 40C each summer, but gets vastly more 20-25C days with heavy cloud cover following each burst of heat which create an unpleasant wintry feeling. There is no shortage of days when it gets chilly at dusk either.
For someone from the UK, Melbourne would appear much more appealing, than to someone from a warmer climate.
According to Wiki Melbourne averages 2,784 hours of sunshine with a peak of 328 in February, not many places in the US away from desert regions have that much sunshine in 1 month
According to Wiki Melbourne averages 2,784 hours of sunshine with a peak of 328 in February, not many places in the US away from desert regions have that much sunshine in 1 month
It says the annual average is 6hrs/day, so multiply that 365 times and you end up with 2190 hours. The sunniest month is January, not Feb, and that has 9 hrs/day, so about 270-280 in the month, not this magical 320 bs that some troll on wikipedia pulled out of his number randomiser. Out in the eastern and southeastern suburbs it would be even worse. It's a cloudy place At the airport 20km to the north, it's 2370 hours annually, presumably because the famous stratus burns of earlier on foggy days and sometimes the northern suburbs are in full sunshine while the rest of the town is socked in.
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