Baby its hot outside

Sounds aweful!

Babars should have relocated.

VG – in addition to the five days that have reached 40 since records began at Canberra Airport, there have been three high 39s in the last six years (39.9 or 39.8), and another one in 1990. These get rounded to 40 when reported as whole numbers, as they usually are on the news.

Obviously you can get numbers a lot higher if your thermometer is exposed to the sun (directly, or indirectly via re-radiation from the ground or nearby buildings), but that’s not comparing apples with apples.

The measurements are at the airport (we’ve got another site at Isabella Plains which peaked at 39.3 yesterday), but you don’t normally get big local variations in maximum temperatures unless water or elevation are involved. Minimum temperatures are another story, as anyone who’s ever ridden a bike from Aranda or Cook down to Lake Burley Griffin in winter will tell you.

I spent the afternoon grocery shopping with two kids. Sounds bad, but at least the supermarket is air conditioned. Hell of a lot better than two whinging kids (plus me) in a hot house.

What did everyone else do to beat the heat?

Pine Island has sand . . . and not too much, sand is annoying.

The ACT has one, its called Jervis Bay

Cnberra needs a beach goddammit.

vg – i agree with you 190%. I was wondering the same thing.

Deano it was global COOLING back then . . . here’s a good summary, though there’s plenty on Wiki and google http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1034077.cms

LOL – It was about 22 in the shade at the MCG one dayer today – the beer* help keep the temp down for Mr + Mrs Danman

*Not actual beer – but mid strength slop

I came home to my ducted evaporative cooled house in Tuggers at about 17:30 and the bride had had the unit on full blast since noon or so.

The internal temperature according to the unit was 24 degrees. Noice!

Sure makes a difference from the fan forced convection oven that was the outside!!!!