No Relief from Heat yet - but a Cool Change is coming
I pretty much stayed indoors yesterday, with the temparature hitting 50 under the pagola by about 11am and staying there until well after 6pm
I did pop down to the chemist for Dee and then again with Casey to pick up "something nice to eat" for Dee and Casey (Macca's nuggets and a slushee drink for each of us)
The rest of the time I spent avoiding getting too hot which was pretty unescapable.
The night temp stayed at 30+ and this morning is still warm, with temps expected to reach 40 before the "Cool Change" comes through at midday
A Victorian Cool Change is a fantastic thing and I suspect one of the reasons so many people live in Melbourne.
It is hard to explain unless you have lived here a while and we took a couple of heat waves and cool changes to come to grips with it.
The way it works is this. In the summer, the winds build up in the central, inner parts of Australia, getting warmer every day. When the north wind starts to blow, the hot dry winds push the normal summer temps from 30 up to 45, and this wind can stay like that for 2 or 3 days, but eventually, the southly winds, coming out of the Australian Bight, loaded up with moisture, rolls across the state, changing the wind from north to south. This Cool Change can be seen coming in from the South West and towns call in to the talkback radio letting the listensers know that the "Change" is coming. This change come take all day, and some times can take a couple of hours. When it hits your area, the temp will drop as much as 15 degrees, and if you are lucky, you also get a big electrical storm (it is these storms that are the main reason for the bush fires, especially if there isn't a lot of rain with the change)
This "change" will hit me in maybe and hour or so. when it does, the windows are thrown open, the doors are wedged ajar, and life returns to a more livable state. Oh Yeah!!
I did pop down to the chemist for Dee and then again with Casey to pick up "something nice to eat" for Dee and Casey (Macca's nuggets and a slushee drink for each of us)
The rest of the time I spent avoiding getting too hot which was pretty unescapable.
The night temp stayed at 30+ and this morning is still warm, with temps expected to reach 40 before the "Cool Change" comes through at midday
A Victorian Cool Change is a fantastic thing and I suspect one of the reasons so many people live in Melbourne.
It is hard to explain unless you have lived here a while and we took a couple of heat waves and cool changes to come to grips with it.
The way it works is this. In the summer, the winds build up in the central, inner parts of Australia, getting warmer every day. When the north wind starts to blow, the hot dry winds push the normal summer temps from 30 up to 45, and this wind can stay like that for 2 or 3 days, but eventually, the southly winds, coming out of the Australian Bight, loaded up with moisture, rolls across the state, changing the wind from north to south. This Cool Change can be seen coming in from the South West and towns call in to the talkback radio letting the listensers know that the "Change" is coming. This change come take all day, and some times can take a couple of hours. When it hits your area, the temp will drop as much as 15 degrees, and if you are lucky, you also get a big electrical storm (it is these storms that are the main reason for the bush fires, especially if there isn't a lot of rain with the change)
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