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- 01/31/2009 at 6:56 AM
  jerseygirl
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  After some posts last week about how chilly you all are in the northern hemi, thought I’d balance things up a bit.
  
  In Adelaide SA where I live, we are experiencing a heatwave. It’s been 7 days over 40C (104F) temps, Wednesday reaching 45.7C (114F). There’s another week of 38C+ (100F+) temps to come. One night this week the overnight minimum was 34C (93F).
  
  It’s stinkin hot!   Some reports in the paper this week recorded temps under the sun of 69.6C (157F) It’s has caused power outages & train lines to buckle.
  
  Here’s some pic from the local rag.
  
  Buckled train tracks
  
  
  
  A recipe for disaster, lightning strikes on Wednesday night.
  
  
  
  The natives coming in to hang with the humans to cool off.
  
  
  
  Sure would appreciate you sending us some of that cooler weather you’re having. I’ll gladly send some of this excess warmth your way!
- 01/31/2009 at 7:10 AM
  ScooterandAnnette
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  Oh I remember that weather far too well! We were in Sydney over Christmas in 2005 for my BIL & SIL’s wedding. The temperature reached something like 42C (107F) one of the days. The rental house we were in had no air conditioning. Inlaws decided it would be a good day for us all to take the kids to the aquarium because after all it was air conditioned in there. I think all of Sydney had the same idea! It was packed, and the cooling system just couldn’t keep up with the crowd and the heat. If I go back to Australia it’s going not going to be in your summer! Oh and I ended up getting a wicked cold that set in the day that we left to come home – always fun on a long flight! But yeah, you have my sympathy on the weather.
  – Annette
- 01/31/2009 at 10:17 AM
  bunnytowne
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  Ohhhh now thats hot. ouch
- 01/31/2009 at 10:19 AM
  BunnyMuffin
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  Ugh – that sounds awful! I hate heat. I’m good until about 25C, and by 30C I’m already whining about it – I can’t even imagine it being 40 and hotter. Yuck! Is it humid there too? In ND/Winnipeg it gets SO humid in the summer (compared to Calgary, where I’m from) and it just grosses me right out. I’d much rather put on a blanket to keep warm than sprawl about trying to cool off. I hope it cools off for you soon!
  
  BTW – I love love koalas and those pictures are adorable! Hopefully some day I’ll make it to your half of the globe to see one for myself. 🙂
- 01/31/2009 at 11:04 AM
  (dig)x(me)x(now)
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  Ugh I’m sorry. I grew up in 100+F temperatures during the summer and it was miserable. Great pictures though, thanks for sharing them
- 01/31/2009 at 11:11 AM
  2lops
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  That last pic is so funny.
  
  Brrrrr,I’d rather have hot weather than cold that’s for sure.
  
  We just got 25 cm of snow. I’m sick of winter ):
- 01/31/2009 at 12:09 PM
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  I’m excited that it got to 30F today!!! lol…heat wave for us!
  
  So does Australia have opposite seasons than North america?
- 01/31/2009 at 4:06 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Yes, we have the warmer seasons Spring-Summer from Sept to Feb, then the cooler ones, Autumn-Winter from March to August. The top end of Oz is tropical so they have the wet season throughout summer.
  
  I prefer winter over summer, but our winters are pretty mild. I find the first heat in a new season a struggle i.e when it 1st starts reaching 30C (86F) until I get accustomed to it. Then after you have some real hot weather, 30 degrees is like ‘no worries’.
- 01/31/2009 at 4:24 PM
  MimzMum
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  Oh that poor Koaly! *fans some of our -20’s your way*
  
  Aren’t you guys having world record fires going now too down there somewhere? 0_o I used to know someone who lived near Perth, and she had both a feral cat problem and terrible wildfires one year there and there was more of a to-do about where would they put all the displaced cats almost more than the humans who were losing their homes. (think this was back in the late -90’s)
  
  I cannot possibly imagine 157 degrees Fahrenheit. Seriously. And I grew up in California, so I’ve been to Death Valley…that’s more hot than anyone should want to have. >.<
  
  I’ve got Tim Allen in my head now from “Jungle to Jungle”…”What did they call this place again…? The Surface of the Sun??”
  
  Stay cool, Jerz!
- 01/31/2009 at 6:21 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Oh I am, we are! What’s really sad is the death toll – 31, mainly the ill or aged. The 157F?…I’m thinking that was a surface temp. Is it even possible to live in that sort of heat?
- 01/31/2009 at 6:38 PM
  MimzMum
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  Ya gotta ask the Venusians that one. 0_o I didn’t think it could actually get that hot anywhere on the planet. >_<
  
  Extremes in temp though are going to be the story for some time to come. Do you guys notice any increased seismic activity at that temp? (in California, we used to get earthquakes when it started getting too hot out)
- 01/31/2009 at 6:58 PM
  jerseygirl
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  There was a 4.5 in the states north…and a smaller one the week before, but I think that was before this big heat. The Adelaide hills have a fault line thru them though, last quake was 1956 I think. The heat does weird things. There were some fires at the transformer boxes on the power lines. SA has ‘stobie pole’, big ugly iron & concrete poles to hold the power lines. Also, when it gets warm, the gum trees tend to ‘pop’ and big branches come down. I don’t know, it’s like the sap expands and causes pressure or something. Total vague guess! lol !
- 01/31/2009 at 7:14 PM
  MimzMum
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  0_o Whoa, scary about the gum trees! >.< I can't imagine standing near one of those (and you would think being near or under a tree would be a GOOD idea in the heat!) and having a branch pop out on you! Yikes!
  
  Those stobie poles sound like our cell phone towers here. Big ugly metal toothpicks. They’re everywhere, it’s like an invasion force.
  
  1956 is a long time to go without a quake. But that would be the last thing you’d need right now. (Especially if you’re near the coast.)
- 01/31/2009 at 7:41 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Well Maryann better give me the heads up if one’s due!
- 01/31/2009 at 9:03 PM
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  i dont mind the heat so much as long as its not humid. i get soooo cold so easy now a days since i lost weight, that i just can’t wait for winter to be over!!! lol….i wanna move somewhere where the weather is no so extreme hot vs. cold. minnesota is not doing it for me! Colorado anyone???
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