11:30pm in #Melbourne and it is 29.9 degrees. It will be another hot night, but the last hot night of the summer as a mild change tomorrow morning will bring temperatures down to the mid twenties.
A heat wave in March is not unprecedented but the change in season that comes with the equinox next week should mean that we won't experience 35+ degree temperatures again until next summer. I say 'should' because in this topsy-turvy climate change world strange things happen. #environment#MelbWeather
It was 25.4 degrees when I woke up at 6am. #Adelaide has broken records during this heatwave. Their heatwave is going for 7 days - ugh.
#Melbourne airport has broken its record for hottest minimum temperature.
No. 12 trams have been cancelled between Spencer St and Victoria Gardens due to the extreme weather. Yet other trams are travelling along the same tracks. Have they been cancelled because the trams on that route are too old? #MelbWeather#environment#trams
I appear to have got on top of the earwigs so now my cyclamen is flowering. This plant is in a south-facing courtyard so it gets little direct sunshine.
We are in the midst of a cool change after a 35+ degree day. It is still hot but we are getting big drops of rain. The first raindrops evaporated almost as soon as they touched the hot, hard surfaces outside.
Unfortunately we are not expecting much rain out of this change so with the big wind change the residents of Western Victoria fighting fires are going to have a hard time.