Urrrrrr ...

[blamebrampton]

It is 41.5 degrees C, which is over 100 in the old money. If you hear nothing further from me, it is because I have melted. I make note that it is not yet summer.

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[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Hey darling! Sydney at that temp is not a liveable city. Bah! For once I am not going to one-up your hot - we finally got a cold change and a wonderfully stalled weather front, and a missing month's worth of rain in around 16 hours (along with floods etc). It's been lovely. I actually went and walked in it at around 8pm last night with C and C - rumours that I was seen dancing in puddles and singing 'Singing in the Rain' are not greatly exaggerated.

Wish I could send it your way, but it appears to be heading for NZ instead. I will endeavour to will it northwards.

I think the quickest source of relief close to you would be to sneak down to the fishmarkets and crawl into their cold rooms (don't mind the smell).

How are the fires going? BoM said the amount of energy involved in our weather this last month (from ridic hot to ridic wet and cold) is both exceptional and ridiculously high. Also, NOT NORMAL.

*concentrates fiercely on sending weather to you*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

According to the SMH they've jumped containment lines and are threatening rural properties. The wind has been heavy, gusting, and multi-directional, which spells horrible for the firefighters. The city is so far unaffected by direct fire, but there is quite a haze developing out there, which probably is also a bit to do with the normal smog not being pushed out of the city's bowl.

The streets are astonishingly empty for this time of a weekend, I think everyone has given up and gone home to sit in a cold bath. The Mon cat is sitting in the washbasin as I type ;-)

The BOM assures me tomorrow will be 22, I am putting my faith in them!

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

I don't miss the Sydney smog bowl at all. Yuck!

I heard one of the main fires was near Kandos, which means there's a good chance it's not far from our old property. There's a lot of national park land up there, but also a lot of rural families who struggle enough these days.

On a tangent, the Kandos swimming pool used to be the coldest pool in the history of man. They used to have an underground sand filter (as I recall) and the damned thing would feel close to zero on 40 deg days when we were allowed to stop picking tomatoes and drive into town for a swim. Beautiful clean water, though. I wonder if it's still like that?

I put ice cubes in my kitties water bowl - they love fishing them out, think it's a great game, and it helps keep their temps down.

Stay cool, honey.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That pool sounds so good ... If there was no fire danger at the moment I would have dragged us up to the Hawkesbury where there is a wonderful old dam that is lovely and cold, too!

And yeah, fingers crossed for Kandos ...