not even summer in Oz yet

Oz isn't that hot mid summer in the populated areas . Widespread myth .

Alice and the north will be roasting guaranteed

shouldn't you say wasn't? Sydney has been baking these past few years

Magic ..Sydney isn't in the tropics

Its climate is very similar to that of Lisbon

Melbourne was extremely hot last summer ,far hotter than Sydney

I know it isn't in the tropics. All I am saying, confirmed by the ozzers, is that the summers are becoming hideously hot. Same goes for spain and portugal btw

anyway, over 40 degrees in victoria in november cannot be normal

yeah ,it will be interesting to se eif the trend continues .... you get thse waves from time to time .

In the english midlands 4 very warm summers were followed by 3 very cool summers .

So maybe its like a roulette table RBBBRRBRBBRRRRBBBRBRBRBRBBRBRRR and so on .

purely sequences

very possible, but from what i have seen of spain the trend is only in one direction

Does seem weird i guess , but then what could cause such extemes of temperature in such a short space of time ?

If it was over 50 years i'd be more concerned.

The global temperatures are on the up .... but with moves to combat global warming taking their time we will never find out if it will ever be reversed

it is spring weather in London at the moment. The poor trees must be very confused. I think we will have a very cold january or february.

brisbane is in oz and i can say from personal experience that when its real hot and humid there.. its fking horrible

^^explains why my aunty keeps coming over here from Brisbane in January ..me and my other english relatives cant seem to get rid of her lol !

I arrive in Brisbane early January for a month.

:|

ill be there forever from feb :) where u staying

??

Surfers

I lived in Lane Cove near the nature reserve park in Sydney for a year. I was walking down to Chatswood and thought I had trod in some tar or chewing gum on the way down. Had a quick check and discovered the soles on my European shoes were melting in the 50 odd degree heat. I have never known anything like it in all my life, completely debilitating.

ffs surfers in in the gold coast not brisbane ;)

The early part of summer last year was quite cool in Melbourne imo

Marble Bar hottest town in Aus, up west near Pilbara region.Been Kalgoolie in West Aus that was pretty warm, hottest though was on sunshine coast inland near Noosa.

I once burned my arm in cleethorpes

I was pi ssed up and fell forward onto a burger griddle

very upsetting

christmas eve i was in sydney last year, was quite cool. bin there other times and it is fkin horrendously hot for me. was there one june/july as well one year - really quite cold and like ostriches they keep their head in the sand pretending it doesn't get cold so no one ever has any heating. alice springs was fkin baltic - ice on the rock at 6am iirc.

Temperaturexaggerationitis .

The act of beliieving a temperture is much higher than it actually is because one has just arrived back from holiday there.

example : It was 42 in the Costa Brava when i was there in July !

[i] Really ?,thats amazing ,even though the all time record there is 40c ?

it was 41 out the back of my place yesterday in brisbane

i suppose it depends if you measure the temp in the shade or in direct sunlight.

that was undercover, very very humid

hate to say it mate but theres always some nutters around that start fires in them conditions, lets hope its safe this year after last summer.

for sure RLKP....they ought to be hung imo

its the humidity that really got to me in brisbane ill be honest

17 degrees in Northern Canada today, shattered records by 5 .

hit 47C in Victoria when i was there in 1999

Have they not run out of water yet

No

When that wind blows in from interior, look out Louie.

i,ll never forget the pictures last year of the bush fires where the car alloys had turned to molten metal.That dosent bear thinking about the kind of heat to do that.