What's happening for you all today?

[Sophia]

It’s going to be scorching 41 degrees today. All the fire warnings on tv last night! So far it looks mild and un-hot.
I filled bottles with water in case power goes out.

And…. I came across this funny diary entry from someone gone to live up northern Qld.

Memewhile in Australia

HOT ENOUGH FOR YA..
A Diary extract of an Australian southerner moving to Northern Queensland..

August 31st
Just got transferred with work into our new home in Queensland!!
Now this is a place that knows how to live!!
Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a deck chair on the verandah.
It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. Ilove it here.

September 13th:
Really heating up. Got to 35 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a
pleasure to see the sun everyday like this.
I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

September 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks.
What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th
The temperature hasn't been below 30 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though, but getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.

October 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed 3 days of work. What a daft thing to do. I learnt my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th:
I didn't see Kitty our cat, sneaking into the car before I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at lunchtime, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank out $3,000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Wiskettes and cat shit. I learnt my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

October 25th:
The wind gives me the shits. It feels like a giant bloody blow dryer!! And it's as hot as hell. The air conditioner is on the blink and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to order parts.

October 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody $700,000 house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

November 4th:
It's 35 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but this bloody humidity makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman. I hate this bloody place.

November 8th:
If another smartarse says, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to throttle him.
Bloody heat. By the time I get to work the car's radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

November 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my arse was on fire. lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried arse, and baked cat.

November 10th:
The weather report might as well be a bloody recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything for 2 damn months and the weatherman savs it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn place? Water rationing will be next, so my $2,000 worth of palms will dry up and blow into the bloody pool. Even the palms can't live in this heat.

November 14th:
place? Water rationing will be next, so my $2,000 worth of palms will dry up and blow into the bloody pool. Even the palms can't live in this heat.

November 14th:
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 38 today. Now the air conditioner in my car has gone. The repairman came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $2,500 house payment to bail my arse out of jail for assaulting the repairman. Bloody Queensland. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?

December 1st:
WTF... This is the first day of summer???
You are @#?*@! Kidding me!

[mellie]

Very good Sophia , and I can definitly relate.
Visiting south east QLD very regularly as a child and young adult to see family (Maroochydore and Bli Bli) was bad enough, I honestly don't want to imagine what further north or west would feel like.
I remember stepping off the plane and feeling that horrible hot blast of wind in my face, broiling in my own perspiration in bed at night, covered in sand fly bites....perhaps this is why so many beech-going locals bodies resemble beefjerky? Theres also this coastal culture up there whereby they pride themselves on just how "jerked" they can appear in contrast to white tourists,
whereby looking like a burns survivor out on gate- release is the local look. Particularly among the older gens....you see them down the beach, their skeletons draped in curtains of jerked skin, skin on face looking almost tightly grafted, and wearing ultra- bright swimware, and so long as they have that jerked QLD tan/look, they think they look absolutely marvellous.

50+ block out for me, I think I even burnt through a tshirt up there once, that sun definitely has some bite in it.

That poor bloody cat left in the car , swollen into something resembling an inflated supermarket bag, I had a chuckle here, because it really is horrific, the heat.

I could never get used to it, even Sydney's too hot for me now.
It's hot in Victoria today, 35 where we are, ( which is freak weather for us highlanders) and just one day of it is more than enough for me, even inside with the air-conditioning with room temperature set to 18c. We'll stay inside thanks, didn't send child to school.

Hope everyone here who's in Victoria are keeping hydrated and cool, but to those of you who live in places where 35c is the daily norm, you deserve all you get.

[tllwd]

Do penguins sweat?

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[Sophia]

As predicted…. We’ve got a blackout… no power!
I had the washing machine going, the desk top computer on as I just downloaded the full moon photos from last night and was looking at what I thought were odd patterns around top part of moon’s edge … so power turns everything off midstream! When I can I will put moon pic up and I want opinions.

Anyway… daughter and dog came to visit and stay over for night… no power… she wanted to make a coffee and didn’t!
So she’s gone out for her coffee

Here is our degrees just now… 5 pm mon 16 Dec ‘24

[Sophia]

Yes Mellie… I am the shade seeker, fully dressed with wide brim hat, glasses, sunblock!
I must be a vampiress!

[Jasin]

Pommies dream of barmy hot Aussie days.

Aussie's dream of cold and rainy Pommies days.

[tllwd]

15-35C with humidity below 70% is within my comfort range, anything else should be outlawed.

[mellie]

Yes Mellie… I am the shade seeker, fully dressed with wide brim hat, glasses, sunblock!
I must be a vampiress!

Then I must be one too, and my daughter and grandaughter because I agree, there's no such thing as a safe level of sun in this country, I get more than enough Vit-D just driving around town.

We seem to have spikes of hot weather during solar flares too.
And I agree, I think planets and our satellites, including our moon has much to do with global temperatures and sea levels, and has since dot.

Don't get me started on Global warming and rising sealevels.
If it's such a problem, why has Albo just bought a pole house to live in on the cliffs overlooking Cococabana beach?

[mellie]

Anyway Sophia, I hope you and your daughter are comfortable and have got the power back on.
Cool change coming through shortly apparently, it's cooler here, but still incredibly muggy.

[mellie]

15-35C with humidity below 70% is within my comfort range, anything else should be outlawed.

-5 to 22c is my threshold. Anything over 22c and my air-conditioning turns on.
I believe it's due to all the inflammation in my body due to RA that renders me heat intolerant these days.

Will be interesting at my parents place in the new year, mums ok to swelter in 33+ degrees, her air-conditioning doesn't turn on unless it's connected to someone else's power supply, she's worse than me re - frugality

Trust me, I will buy myself my own portable single-room air-conditioning unit while I'm there if I have to.

They get the coastal breezes, so it's usually OK.

Just one week, we can do this, we can