remember the song Heaven Is a Place on Earth? (Katrina and The Waves I think)
Well, so is Hell a place on Earth.
Today, January 24th 2019, thirteen South Australian cities broke their previously held heatwave temperature records.
Adelaide was one of them. Our expected 45C became 46.6C (115F) and as 6pm rolled around the temperature was still at 45C.
Further north in Port Pirie, my sister (and everyone else who lives there) suffered through 48.6C (119F)
She has no phone so I'm not in touch with her apart from one or two letters per year. I hope she is okay, I won't know until she writes me a letter. I'll probably get five or six pages telling me how dreadful the heat is.
I saw a small segment on the evening news where one clever family brought their inflatable pool into the living room and filled it so they could sit in it to watch television and just keep cool.
Today, January 24th 2019, thirteen South Australian cities broke their previously held heatwave temperature records.
Adelaide was one of them. Our expected 45C became 46.6C (115F) and as 6pm rolled around the temperature was still at 45C.
Further north in Port Pirie, my sister (and everyone else who lives there) suffered through 48.6C (119F)
She has no phone so I'm not in touch with her apart from one or two letters per year. I hope she is okay, I won't know until she writes me a letter. I'll probably get five or six pages telling me how dreadful the heat is.
I saw a small segment on the evening news where one clever family brought their inflatable pool into the living room and filled it so they could sit in it to watch television and just keep cool.
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Nothing to do with climate change, of course. Does 47 feel hotter than 40? It is like an oven outside here now, 36 at 9.15pm. It is rare, but we will leave the air con on overnight and bedroom doors open.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; 47 feels a lot hotter than 40. It takes your breath away and sears your lungs. I stayed inside from Wednesday evening until this morning.
DeleteWhen my late mother-in-law was living in India, one host had the clever idea of putting lots of ice in containers on the floor to keep everyone cool at the dinner table. Necessity is the mother of invention.
ReplyDeletejabblog; I thought about ice, but don't have room in my freezer to make any. I have the airconditioner, but thought I could put ice in Lola's water dish.
DeleteOh my word, that is hot. Hope your sister is okay and that she writes you, soon.
ReplyDeleteThe happy Whisk; we're not well known as letter writers, often going two years without communication.
DeleteI think that barring saunas I've never been in such a hot place, including doing my homeworks in a greenhouse - of all places - in Egypt. This sure sounds hot, iced tea and cold water baths for feet feels just rigth. Here it is 2 below zeor, snow is still sparsely arouund and the blackbirds and fieldfares are figthing over last sunmmer's left apples.
ReplyDeleteUglemor; I've never been in a sauna, I imagine it would feel similar, just with steam. This was dry heat, very little humidity.
Deletethatsa hot
ReplyDeleteAuthor R. Mac Wheeler; it was still warmish this morning too, but down into the 30s, right now it is much cooler, more comfortable.
DeleteHow strange. Brushing my teeth this morning I thought of your vacation trip to visit your sister. It was difficult at the time and would be close to impossible now. I wish her well, in your brutal conditions. Do you send her letters?
ReplyDeleteJoanne; I do send letters, but not often and then I wait for replies, sometimes as long as a year or two while I send another. If it's too hot to venture out to a post box, she won't send anything. I may have mentioned before she is mentally retarded? But able to cope, in her own way.
DeleteI can't conceive in being in such high temperatures!! Do you think that when winter comes you will complain about the cold?
ReplyDeletefishducky; of course we will, as soon as we get use to the chill and forget the summer heat. Round about August, I'd say the complaints might start. When the nights and mornings get frosty.
DeleteI saw both your temperatures and Andrews. And how hot it stayed well into the evening. Shudder.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; I heard on the news this morning that Melbourne will be 44 tomorrow. And thought of everyone I knew there. Hope JahTeh will cope ok. Andrew has airconditioning.
DeleteKeep safe both of you. That is so hot! Can't even imagine temperatures that high. We had a dusting of snow here yesterday and last night I went to bed with two hot water bottles.
ReplyDeleteMolly; I was perfectly safe with my airconditioner set to "freezing" ha ha, but Lola insisted on lying out in the back porch on the concrete. The air out there was like an oven but she seemed okay.
DeleteAs long as that pool doesn't spring a leak, i like that idea.
ReplyDeleteHoping and praying you get more moderate temps now!
messymimi; I like the idea too, luckily I don't need to do that. It's much cooler now for a couple of days.
DeleteWell, at least you got a record out of it! I imagine a few tenths of a degree short of the record would still have been just as miserable.
ReplyDeleteVal; I care as much about records as I do about a certain orange coloured "leader". Much cooler here today and for the weekend.
DeleteWish we could send that orange leader to you, as I doubt he could survive the heat! I was raised in south Georgia and not only the heat but humidity. We were near swamp lands. No air conditioning graced my childhood and only one small oscillating fan in the house with my grandparents. I doubt it occurred to anyone to purchase a second fan. The fan was turned off at bedtime, as they were afraid to leave any electrical appliance on, lest they burn the house down. Winters were bone chilling with the very high humidity and the heat was turned off at bedtime, as well. Being the youngest, my grandmother would take pity on me and she would heat a brick in the fireplace and wrap it in a blanket to put in my bed. I find myself less tolerant of the heat now than the cold.
ReplyDeleteKathy's Klothesline; please, please, please, do NOT send him here. We had no fans or airconditioning when I was a child, and lived in the mid north where my sister still lives, but the beach was just a short walk from home and we would often go down there after dark and swim. I remember hot bricks wrapped in newspapers put in our beds during winter.
DeleteThose are horrible temperatures to try to function in. I'm glad you've seen some moderation since writing this post.
ReplyDeletejenny_o; it was wonderful waking up to a much cooler morning today.
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