Enjoying summer heatwave

Waggles · Jan 27, 2018

It is 2.14PM Sunday afternoon here in South Australia.

The mercury has tipped 43C or 109.4F
and it could still get hotter.

The dog and the cat have shut down are both lying flat out on the kitchen lino.
We had weather like this yesterday for Saturday as well.

I have a bird bath under the big pear tree out back. Every bird for miles
comes for a drink, along with the bees and the wasps.

The freezer is stashed full of icecreams and icy-poles.

Waggles · Jan 27, 2018

You do know that 50C is 122F in the shade.

Temperature in summer is measured in the shade.
Whatever that is?

The health authorities keep advertising to slip, slop, slap
slip on sunnies, slop on some sun cream, slap on a hat

to save us all from skin cancers = melanomas (I think we are the world's capital for
skin cancers and surgery to remove them).

As you can see we Aussies take this very very seriously

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Deade · Jan 27, 2018

Hi Waggles,

How do you get those pictures in there?

Yours,

Deade

SovereignGrace · Jan 27, 2018

How cold does it get there in your winter? Here where I live, it can get below 0, but not like Canada and Alaska cold.

#Brrrrrrr!!!

Tinuviel · Jan 28, 2018

You're showing off. I just came out of a stretch when it was getting down to -40F/C. To me, that beach looks wonderful

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Tinuviel · Jan 28, 2018

From this side of the world, those high numbers look mighty funny in January. And which way does your water spiral down your drains, again? (NVM. I wish my sister were here to appreciate my sad jokes).

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

Our winter cold during the day could go as low as 11C or 51.8F

for us that is freezing - like we all say to each other "I can't wait for summer to come."

But it can drop to minus degrees overnight nd give a heavy frost
-2C > 28.4F or -4C > 24.8

just checked the weather station info at 4.24PM - has dropped down to 39C or 102.2

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

This is the real danger down here - bush fires - devastating and often fatal for many

breno785au · Jan 28, 2018

It was so hot today, the air con in my car was struggling as I drove to bunnings to get another bbq gas bottle. I eventually gave up and put my window down to breath in the oven-like hot air...

It was so hot today, I had left my thongs (flip flops) to Americans in the sun outside and when I put them on I burnt my feet...

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

What really really annoyed me yet again was the "national" ABC broadcaster
running a story on poor suffering Melbourne having to put up with a lousy
39C [102.2F] and lots of advice on how to satay cool, and don't forget put water
out for your pets.

Not a mention of Adelaide's forecast for 43C [109.4F].
I might just lead a day of prayer for continental drift so that the east coast of
Australia breaks off - why not? They like to think that they are the only ones that
inhabit this continent.
As far as they are concerned there ain't nobody west of the Great Dividing Range
(what an appropriate name).

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

Summer is the bushfire season. And we are always on alert in rural SA for that
telltale smoke. And we all listen to our local radio station for alerts and warnings.

A couple of years ago we suffered a quite severe bushfire here and we had to
pack up and evacuate. Get out of the Valley and travel south to Adelaide.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon it was as nightime. Total blackness just from the smoke.

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tourist · Jan 28, 2018

Waggles said:

Some summers in Florida can be unusually dry and brush fires start easily. One summer there was hardly any rain and 1/2 the state was on fire. Drove home from work one day at 4 PM and it looked as dark as midnight. It was bad.

Depleted · Jan 28, 2018

Enjoying winter heatwave better. It went up to 60 (Farenheit) yesterday, so hubby grilled "on the barby."

(Sorry, can't add image from my computer anymore, so copy-paste from FB.)

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

That is what we call a weber - cooking over charcoal or heat beads.
Very nice.
You can put the lid on and slow cook roasts or poultry.
Succulent style.

I noticed you said hubby cooked - yes good to hear.
BBQs are men's domain.

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breno785au said:

Need Oz to American translation:
Is bunning a place or a thing? Because, I'm trying to picture you driving in your bunning, and can't. lol

And, boy, oh boy. You do not want to know what "thongs" means here, or you'd be blushing. (Although, I suspect you know, or wouldn't have translated it to American. lol)

Depleted · Jan 28, 2018

Waggles said:

Wow! Webers made it to down-under? The manufacturer is right across the rive from us. (In NJ.) So I assumed only folks around me knew what Weber made.

And hubby does most cooking. Dinner is men's work in my family. Not traditional, but my hubby, dad, and four brothers love to cook, (one's a chef) and my sister and I don't.

breno785au · Jan 28, 2018

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Lol, Bunnings is a very large hardware store here in Australia.

And I know what a thong is to Americans hence why I put in the American terminology to explain what I actually meant lol

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

No breno ain't writing about G-string lingerie.

Bunnings is the largest hardware store chain in Australia and dominates all other
competitors.
Bunnings has now become a generic term for hardware stores even if you are going to
Mitre 10 or Home stores. Like 'coke' is short for all other cola drinks.

Thongs = flip flops
Thongs come in a range of styles and prices from $4 budget plain rubber
to $20 or $30 'designer' fashions for the discerning wearer.
Expensive thongs are called 'sandals' because they cost more.

But they are under challenge from 'crocs' which are a rubber enclosed sandal
full of holes so that one can go easily in and out of water with them always on.

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breno785au · Jan 28, 2018

Waggles said:

No breno ain't writing about G-string lingerie.

Bunnings is the largest hardware store chain in Australia and dominates all other
competitors.
Bunnings has now become a generic term for hardware stores even if you are going to
Mitre 10 or Home stores. Like 'coke' is short for all other cola drinks.

Thongs = flip flops
Thongs come in a range of styles and prices from $4 budget plain rubber
to $20 or $30 'designer' fashions for the discerning wearer.
Expensive thongs are called 'sandals' because they cost more.

But they are under challenge from 'crocs' which are a rubber enclosed sandal
full of holes so that one can go easily in and out of water with them always on.

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How hot was it for you last night?

It was 25 here, I woke up in sweat so I went to the couch and slept with the fan on at around 5am lol

Waggles · Jan 28, 2018

breno785au said:

That is what exhausts a poor Aussie - those high overnight temperatures.
And thanks to our socialist Green dumbo Labor government with all their save the
planet nonsense - South Australia has the most expensive electricity in the world;
so we cannot afford to run either of our two split systems that we have.
Pedestal fans is all we use.

And my place is a big old farmhouse with double brick walls and 12 feet high
ceilings. So when the house is hot after a heatwave the house stays hot.

It is 23C outside at 7AM but like 30C in the house. And no breeze to displace the
hot air in the house. And it is humid due to the cloud cover as well.
The dog is outside lying on the grass.

Can't wait for winter

Enjoying summer heatwave

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