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Dec 16^th, 2024 at 6:56am

Scary heat today in Melbourne and much of the South East Australia:

http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml

Forecast for the rest of Monday

Summary

Max 41

Late cool change. Windy.
Chance of any rain: 20%
Melbourne area

Mostly sunny morning, with cloud increasing from the west in the afternoon.
Slight chance of a shower in the late evening.
The chance of a thunderstorm with little or no rainfall from the early afternoon.
Thunderstorms possibly severe with damaging winds.
Winds northerly 35 to 50 km/h shifting cooler south to southwesterly 15 to 25 km/h in the late evening.

It's already 33.5 C in Adelaide.
http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/observations/adelaide.shtml

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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 105202 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 7:14am Alice Springs will be 43 today: http://www.bom.gov.au/nt/forecasts/alice-springs.shtml Sydney only 29 http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/sydney.shtml
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25002 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #2 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 12:51pm We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 105202 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #3 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 1:15pm UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 12:51pm: We are getting some rain and cool breeze. Melbourne is getting hot northerlies. Rockhampton is 30.7 right now. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml Melbourne is 35 C at 2:15 pm. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml
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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 5426 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #4 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 2:28pm It's called summer...happens every year.
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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #5 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:17pm

https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/news/victoria-soars-to-47c-for-first-time-s...

Victoria soars to 47°C for first time since Black Summer

Anthony Sharwood, Monday December 16, 2024 - 14:26 AEDT

For the first time since the fateful Black Summer, the mercury has reached 47°C in Victoria, as an intense heatwave bakes large parts of eastern Australia including a big chunk of our southernmost mainland state.

Shortly after 2pm, the mercury peaked at 47.1°C at Walpeup, a tiny town in the Mallee region in the state's northwest with a population of around 150.

As of 3pm Monday (AEDT), temps had reached 44°C or higher at several locations in the Mallee and Wimmera districts including Mildura (45.1°C), Hopetoun Airport (45.4°C), Swan Hill (45°C) and Horsham (44°C).

Even Victoria's southern coastline has not been spared today's extreme heat, with Warrnambool reaching 41.2°C just after 1pm before rapidly shedding more than 10 degrees within half an hour as a cooler west-southwesterly change pushed through.

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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #6 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:33pm

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C.

I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event.

Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #7 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:38pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 3:33pm:

I was whingeing about 35°C the other week. But, I could not imagine the 47°C.

I suffered through hot humid weather the other week until I decided to go see a documentary at the cinema. Best $18 I have spent. Free food after the event.

Hope we get a lot more than 25mm of rainfall tomorrow and Wednesday. Low pressure system hanging off the coast moving northwest.

On Black Saturday in 2009 it reached 46 C degrees at my place.

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/black-saturday-bushfires

I went outside with bowls of water to save the birds - that were falling out of the sky.
I saved many of them.

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17665 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #8 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 4:47pm Wapeup weather records JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC ANNUAL High Max (°C) 46.6 48.1 41.7 38.9 30 25.4 28.8 29.7 35.4 40.2 45.2 47.7 48.1 https://www.weatherzone.com.au/station/SITE/76064/climate Record December 2019
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48608 Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #9 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 5:34pm I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces. It was 60C HTFU
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25002 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #10 - Dec 16^th, 2024 at 6:41pm I was doing deliveries the other week in hot afternoon weather. Friday and Saturday night was a matter of a bit of rain about. It was really good monsoonal type weather without the heavy rain.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 105202 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #11 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 11:44am Jasin wrote on Dec 16^th, 2024 at 5:34pm: I've worked in a metal Foundry at the furnaces. It was 60C HTFU harden up - LOL. It didn't get to 41 where I am - it peaked at about 39. The cool change later on at 9.00pm was welcome.
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Bobby. Moderator Online Australian Politics Posts: 105202 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #12 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 6:41pm It's around 18 degrees right now - what a nice refreshing wind after the heat of yesterday. It will go down to 15 tonight - perfect. http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/melbourne.shtml
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25002 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat Reply #13 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 7:55pm That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.
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Re: Melbourne 41 C today - scary heat
Reply #14 - Dec 17^th, 2024 at 9:07pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 17^th, 2024 at 7:55pm:

That is really weird weather. We have minimums getting no lower than 20°C by November. After that, it would take a rain event with heavy hail for the temperature at any part of the day to go below 20°C. It takes until April in the following year to see minimum temperatures get below 20°C.

That's why I like the Southern regions of Australia -
I also sleep better when we have cool nights.

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