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Your "searing" temperatures must be warmer than I set my air conditioner to be considered "hot".
I was just reading that Sydney had a high of 77° F and there was much ado about how hot that was.
Darwin and Port Hedlund are getting up there to some real heat at nearly 90° F, but that's just normal Florida heat.
But just the interior and the northern cities seem to be actually hot. The middle of Australia is kinda known for being warmer than the rest because it's got unique weather patterns. It's fascinating reading for someone from the midwest. To me, "entire nation" means that, well, the entire nation should be having some damn heat and it looks like a normal distribution to me.
And are we going to ignore the elephant in the room or talk about how comfortable Tasmania is when "Entire Nation" is gripped by a heatwave? That just makes me wonder how fucking cold that place is normally when flannel shirt weather is a heatwave.
By the way, it's summer in the down under, so summer weather and temperatures are to be expected.
I have been to Australia twice. Once to Alice Springs for a Site Survey to put in a duel 6 meter satellite dishes. There is no good way to get to Alice Springs as it is in the desert in the center of the continent. It was in November and getting over 100F daily. I was in Adelaide in January and February installing a 4.8 meter dish where the temps were in the mid to high 90's up to 104. That area is also surrounded by desert.
ReplyDeleteI live in southern West Oz.
ReplyDeleteMy house is not air-conditioned.
I haven't even taken the blankets off the bed yet.
All this climate panic-mongering by the news organisations\authorities (BIRM) is getting tiresome.
32° C. is 89.6° F. In Darwin. I'll grant that as hot, owing to the fact the humidity is probably also Floridian there.
ReplyDeleteIt's also located at 12° S. Latitude.
The North America equivalent would be Managua, Nicaragua.
Color me unimpressed with their "heat wave".
Almost the entire northern half of Oz is north of the Tropic of Capricorn, i.e. it's in the tropics, where it's supposed to be bloody hot, by definition.
25° C. in Sydney? in the height of their summer?
77° F.
That's a winter day in most of Southern California, most years.
Sydney sits at the same latitude south of the equator as US cities in the northern hemisphere as Charleston SC, Atlanta, Dallas, or San Diego.
77° F. in any of those cities in June is hardly a heat wave.
So either the climastrology ninnies are having the vapors based on nothing, or the Australians carping about their temps are pussies.
I'm going with "A", to about 98% certainty.
If they (or the Europeans) ever experienced normal Southwestern summer heat, they'd think it was the end of the world. Or even a typical Iowa summer heat wave.
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