44 deg C (111 F) here today!

[HomerJAU]

Currently 41 deg C here at 3:00pm with forecast for 44 around 5:00pm. Record for Melbourne in December.

I’m at home with 3 air cons running. Too hot to go outside for a ciggy...

 

[humprof]

Currently 41 deg C here at 3:00pm with forecast for 44 around 5:00pm. Record for Melbourne in December.

I’m at home with 3 air cons running. Too hot to go outside for a ciggy...

You're keeping your computers, your vinyl, and all the rest of your multi-channel media in a climate-controlled vault, right?

 

[HomerJAU]

A lot of my digital discs are in my garage, no air con. Vinyl and my NAS and backup discs in the house.

43 deg C now. I have a fully stocked bar fridge in my media room. (Well it was fully stocked a couple hours ago...)

 

[boxhead]

Yeah, we're due for 43º tomorrow in Sydney.

 

[watsontr]

36º forecast for the Central Coast tomorrow. Yesterday was a bit of a scorcher at around 40º. If you walked outside the heat (and the smoke) felt like it was burning your eyes/face. Horrible

 

[HomerJAU]

44 degC now..

 

[J. PUPSTER]

44 degC now..

How’s the power grids down there?

 

[Albert Dagger]

And lot of smoke coming from NSW... that’s the worst part. I can bear 40+ degrees, but the air quality is quite poor around the CBD and Carlton. Definitely a day for listening to some music rather than going for a run!

 

[beerking]

Feeling the pain you guys....we've got what you need, rain, in biblical amounts!!
I can't handle heat over 30, let alone those crazy temps.

I hope you all are keeping safe.

 

[Circular Vibes]

I echo the desire for all our Aussie friends to be well during this disaster and hope a solution happens so it will pass soon. I can offer a cool thought, Ottawa is having record lows and they are already flooding the Rideau Canal for ice skating that is a couple weeks ahead of schedule. I had my breath taken away going to the bus to Ikea two days ago. Saw a pylon on the road and it was shattered like from extreme cold, no liquid nitrogen required. Still waiting for the snowmen(& women) to arrive.

 

[HomerJAU]

How’s the power grids down there?

Not too bad here in Victoria (southern state). They closed a huge coal fired power station south east of Melbourne a couple years back that’s put pressure on. No nuclear in AU, but we have hydro up north and we get hydro from an undersea link from Tasmania. A fair bit of gas fired power here too.

Solar farms are the latest craze. The worlds biggest battery backup for solar was installed by Eon Musk‘s mob in South Australia last year, which help the locals there. Lots of power outages there previously during summer.

The government privatised power industry here a couple decades ago, so it’s now supply and demand. Problem is during freak hot weather events prices hit over $1000 per kWhr (from generation companies) so suppliers start cutting power to homes to save money. Although they’re in denial as that’s not legal.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Not too bad here in Victoria (southern state). They closed a huge coal fired power station south east of Melbourne a couple years back that’s put pressure on. No nuclear in AU, but we have hydro up north and we get hydro from an undersea link from Tasmania. A fair bit of gas fired power here too.

Solar farms are the latest craze. The worlds biggest battery backup for solar was installed by Eon Musk‘s mob in South Australia last year, which help the locals there. Lots of power outages there previously during summer.

The government privatised power industry here a couple decades ago, so it’s now supply and demand. Problem is during freak hot weather events prices hit over $1000 per kWhr (from generation companies) so suppliers start cutting power to homes to save money. Although they’re in denial as that’s not legal.

Sending good wishes your way that the power stays up down there!
You'd think in this day and age these power problems wouldn't exist. Regulate or don't regulate? We got big problems here in California also, as you may have heard, still not sure how that's going to work out. I'd like to think more solar & wind type stuff will help and also create jobs. With much of a needed resource like this up for grabs and when major players wrestle for control of such a market and rectify the distribution; seems like it's the end user that gets the "Rectum Ah Um"

 

[The56Kid]

Damn, that’s beyond hot. But global warming is a hoax, right? Stay cool, friends from down under!

 

[ar surround]

Oh boy@Scott65, it appears that hoards from the mainland will be trying to escape to your lovely island state.

 

[sperezmore]

Currently 41 deg C here at 3:00pm with forecast for 44 around 5:00pm. Record for Melbourne in December.

I’m at home with 3 air cons running. Too hot to go outside for a ciggy...

WOW!!!!!

That's HOT!!!!!

Regards,

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Currently 41 deg C here at 3:00pm with forecast for 44 around 5:00pm. Record for Melbourne in December.

I’m at home with 3 air cons running. Too hot to go outside for a ciggy...

Uh um.... doesn't Australia have central air? What does retail shoping do about this? In the mid west USA we just set the thermostat at 68 F summer. Haha in the winter as it is now 72. F.

 

[Beefalo]

Oh boy@Scott65, it appears that hoards from the mainland will be trying to escape to your lovely island state.

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My daughter was a field worker in Tasmania a few years ago. She picked apples & grapes. Saved enough money to support herself in Melbourne.

 

[watsontr]

35º here at the moment but it's in a hell of a state. Hope there are no further losses today

 

[The56Kid]

35º here at the moment but it's in a hell of a state. Hope there are no further losses today

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That’s downright scary!

 

[Frogmort]

Stephen Hawking said that if we continue on our current trajectory of energy usage, then in a hundred years the surface of the earth will be glowing red hot with magma.

By the way, it was 18°F (-8°C) here in East Tennessee a couple of nights ago. ☃

Edit: I live fairly far south in North America. I don't how those Canucks, or anyone named "Nanook", can stand it that far north.