We're sweltering here in Hawkes Bay, we've had day after windless day with temperatures in the 30s. I'm tired and crochety because it's so hard to sleep when the nights are so hot. I don't really enjoy very hot weather. Fortunately we had some rain last week so my tank still has water and the livestock have plenty of feed. However our heat is minor compared to the weather the Aussies are getting. I can't complain after a friend in Newman, Western Australia sent me this
photo and link. Spectacular photo, isn't it.
Bushfire in Newman, WA
Temperatures are literally off the charts - the Bureau of Meteorology has had to add new colours to its weather forecasting chart, to extend its previous temperature range that had been capped at 50 degrees. The range now extends to 54 degrees.
Read more
here in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Phew. I'm off to sit in the shade with a glass of nicely chilled white wine.
Two of my children live on the East coast of Oz; no panic calls as yet!
ReplyDeleteThat is terrifying - imagine trying to sleep out in a corrugated iron hut in 54 degrees - you would cook, even before the fire reached you.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable photo. And 54C. Awful! Hope your "wine cooler" did the trick.
ReplyDeleteWe just spent a few days in Napier... It's very beautiful, but 31c?! Too hot - even for wine!
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine what our poor Aussie neighbours are going through...
My son lives in Hobart, fortunately a couple of hours away from the closest fires.
ReplyDeleteSummer is such hard work! I don't envy you down there, Judith.
At least in Auckland we can usually pick up a breath of wind from some direction. Then again, we have extra humidity to cope with. Your puss must be feeling the heat too.
We've been down to Te Awamutu, riding on the velodrome. then it was 28 to 30 degrees. It is hard to imagine temperatures twenty degrees higher. Friends in Brisbane have just said Thanks Be for air-conditioning!
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