Weather update

July 1st, 2013 | Weather

heatI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we now have weather in extremes….. Just over a week ago I was complaining that we had experienced a very cool spring, with hardly any days above 20°C (68°F). Indeed, in recent weeks the average temperature had probably been nearer to 15°C (59/60°F), but that was until now!

Last week we had a fairly sudden and dramatic change when the thermometer hit 30°C (86°F) and has pretty much stayed there ever since. I can clearly remember about 10 days ago putting a fleece on in the office and thinking how ridiculous I felt dressed like that in the middle of June – today I’m in a t-shirt and shorts!

The question I guess has to be, how long will it last, and do we really want an extremely hot summer? The forecast is set for more of the same for at least the next week, so we will just have to wait and see how the rest of our summer evolves. Long term forecasts probably won’t help.

We should however, be very grateful that we are not experiencing the same problems as Arizona where temperatures have been in excess of 50°C (over 120°F). Only this morning we hear the tragic news that an entire team of 19 fire fighters have lost their lives whilst tackling raging forest fires over there. Sadly, this takes me back to Melbourne in 2009, when Angela and I arrived there on ‘Black Saturday’, with temperatures of more than 45°C (113°F) and winds of around 60mph – 173 people died, including 120 in one single fire storm. Simply dreadful.

heatI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – we now have weather in extremes….. Just over a week ago I was complaining that we had experienced a very cool spring, with hardly any days above 20°C (68°F). Indeed, in recent weeks the average temperature had probably been nearer to 15°C (59/60°F), but that was until now!

Last week we had a fairly sudden and dramatic change when the thermometer hit 30°C (86°F) and has pretty much stayed there ever since. I can clearly remember about 10 days ago putting a fleece on in the office and thinking how ridiculous I felt dressed like that in the middle of June – today I’m in a t-shirt and shorts!

The question I guess has to be, how long will it last, and do we really want an extremely hot summer? The forecast is set for more of the same for at least the next week, so we will just have to wait and see how the rest of our summer evolves. Long term forecasts probably won’t help.

We should however, be very grateful that we are not experiencing the same problems as Arizona where temperatures have been in excess of  50°C (over 120°F). Only this morning we hear the tragic news that an entire team of 19 fire fighters have lost their lives whilst tackling raging forest fires over there. Sadly, this takes me back to Melbourne in 2009, when Angela and I arrived there on ‘Black Saturday’, with temperatures of more than 45°C (113°F) and winds of around 60mph – 173 people died, including 120 in one single fire storm. Simply dreadful.

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