Dear All,
As you enjoy your nice crisp cool winter days, spare a thought for we
folk in the southern hemisphere. In the next few days we expect the
following temperatures:
Tuesday 38 °C
Wednesday 41 °C
Thursday 40 °C
Friday 40 °C
Saturday 40 °C
Sunday 30 °C
See the article http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-faces-worst-hot-spell-in-100-years-20090126-7q0c.html
for the details. Melbourne is the nearest big city to Geelong.
Melbourne is 70 kilometres north-east of Geelong.
You might recall the rhyme:
Zero is freezing,
10 is not,
20 is pleasing,
30 is hot,
40 frying,
50 dying.
I don't know who wrote the first three lines but I added the last two
to consider Australian conditions. We live near the coast of the
Southern Ocean but 200 kilometres inland from us you can expect the
predicted temperatures to be about 3 °C hotter than here. Swan Hill,
for example, will reach 44 °C on Wednesday and 43 °C on Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday.
It's amusing to see chatter in northern hemisphere media reports about
'global cooling'. You won't get much empathy for that position here in
Australia as we are about to experience our second driest January in
159 years that is being topped off with this current heat wave. So far
this month Geelong has had 0.4 millimetres of rain compared to a long
term average of 35.6 millimetres for January.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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