Life in a blast furnace
Jan 9th 2013, 10:25 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
The media will make up all sorts of alleged 'news'...it doesn't mean of course that the people in Melbourne were traumatised by this event or thought it particularly special - when you've had 36C at 3am why would you!? I remember reading in the Brisbane Courier Mail a story about scorching 28C heat! Yes, yes we know...it's much hotter in Adelaide...kudos to those tough Adelaide folk for sticking it out!
Adelaide has an average of 2-3 days a year above 40C by the way...source, BOM.
Jan 9th 2013, 10:36 am
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Jan 9th 2013, 10:39 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
They can't be...not given the relentless, furnace like summer they tough out for months on end every year...average overnight lows of 17C in Jan / Feb...how can the grid possibly run all the air conditioners!!!?
Jan 9th 2013, 11:13 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
I was in Adelaide on the night of the 7th Feb 2009 and boy it was memorabile.... Great drinking weather though.
Jan 9th 2013, 7:02 pm
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
The media will make up all sorts of alleged 'news'...it doesn't mean of course that the people in Melbourne were traumatised by this event or thought it particularly special - when you've had 36C at 3am why would you!? I remember reading in the Brisbane Courier Mail a story about scorching 28C heat! Yes, yes we know...it's much hotter in Adelaide...kudos to those tough Adelaide folk for sticking it out!
Jan 9th 2013, 7:45 pm
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
I just thought that if you wanted to relieve yourself of the opportunity to whinge about why your city is so forgotten, then move. Not stupid.
Jan 9th 2013, 7:56 pm
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
Inside joke for the western Canadians. 
But I used to live in Adelaide and can testify to the heat. I remember walking out of work one day at Women's and Children's Hospital and the hot wind funnelling down between the buildings from the north felt like the blast you get when you open the oven door when it's been on fan-forced at 225° for an hour.
But I used to live in Adelaide and can testify to the heat. I remember walking out of work one day at Women's and Children's Hospital and the hot wind funnelling down between the buildings from the north felt like the blast you get when you open the oven door when it's been on fan-forced at 225° for an hour.
Jan 11th 2013, 4:15 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
But then you're the kind of person who thinks you should move house if you don't live in an 'important' city. Now that is stupid, I'm sure we all agree.
Jan 11th 2013, 4:39 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
In for a penny, in for a pound. I haven't seen any weather in Adelaide, Melbourne or in the middle this year that is any different to previous years.
What I have seen is ridiculous headlines declaring that a day time high of 32 is SCORCHING, which clearly it isn't. It's perfectly normal for January.
Just the press having nothing better to say.
Most of the med is around 30 all summer. Didn't we all go there on hols for the warmth?
What I have seen is ridiculous headlines declaring that a day time high of 32 is SCORCHING, which clearly it isn't. It's perfectly normal for January.
Just the press having nothing better to say.
Most of the med is around 30 all summer. Didn't we all go there on hols for the warmth?
Jan 11th 2013, 4:47 am
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Re: Life in a blast furnace
In for a penny, in for a pound. I haven't seen any weather in Adelaide, Melbourne or in the middle this year that is any different to previous years.
What I have seen is ridiculous headlines declaring that a day time high of 32 is SCORCHING, which clearly it isn't. It's perfectly normal for January.
Just the press having nothing better to say.
Most of the med is around 30 all summer. Didn't we all go there on hols for the warmth?
What I have seen is ridiculous headlines declaring that a day time high of 32 is SCORCHING, which clearly it isn't. It's perfectly normal for January.
Just the press having nothing better to say.
Most of the med is around 30 all summer. Didn't we all go there on hols for the warmth?
We got the 'heights' of 16-18oC (on a good day) of the west coast of Ireland.
Jan 11th 2013, 4:49 am
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But you know what I mean hopefully. 