Today's weather

[Malcolm 0-6-0]

Well it's heading for 39C today with a forecast afternoon change. Last night was very humid but one of those nasty humid nights which cool in the early hours and leave you feeling both cold and very clammy. A few bush fires have broken out up the country in the last few days and the wind isn't helping the efforts to control them. However Tasmania is copping it worst. In the last 10 years it seems that each state in turn has been copping bad bush fire summers with many people being killed. The 7th of February will be the tenth anniversary of the Black Saturday bush fires in my state of Victoria when the temperature reached 45 degrees after three consecutive days of over 40 degree temperatures and 180 people were killed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires

So far touch wood this summer hasn't been that bad.

We had bad conditions in the preceding summers of 2007 and 2008. In 2007 I remember flying back from a committee meeting in Canberra to Melbourne (I was on a federal government advisory committee) and looking out the plane windows to the east the whole of eastern Victoria was under this massive wall of brown dark grey smoke while to the west it was clear.

[Ron S]

And in North Queensland, they are getting flooded out
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australi ... smsnnews11

[Maz066]

Having given every Brit the scares about ever coming to Aus I am sitting on the verandah at 7:00 with a glass of red, clear skies gentle sea breeze, 25 degrees. Beautiful

[footplate1947]

Now that sounds nice Maz. But how hot is it by mid day mate. Glass of red at 7am is bit early isnt it.

[Walkingthedog]

I love visiting Aus. Very nice people. Roll on October.


Minus 4.4 when I took the dog out.

[footplate1947]

I bet you are Brian but I cant do things like that any more say the Doc. Aircraft are out of bounds at ;east for long haul for me. Enjoy, will be thinking of you.

[Walkingthedog]

Don’t really enjoy flying John, never have.

[Maz066]

Glass of red at 7am is bit early isnt it.

Now thats an idea
Today was about 30 here. We are 10 minutes from the beach and its an automatic 7- 10 degree drop in temp so we took the dog for a romp in the surf

[footplate1947]

Sounds lovely mate,,,,,, Enjoy

[bulleidboy]

Not to long to go -I'm off to Florida on April 30th - usually about 28c. Currently trying to find a cheap car deal.