Birdsville mentioned on the National Weather this morning

Hi Rumpig

Here in South Australia, Moomba has not been below 45 for over two weeks and still there is no end in sight. The joys of a typical hot Aussie summer.




Cheers



Stephen

You can have those sort of temperatures to yourself Stephen, though supposed to be 42 degrees at my place here in Brisbane on Sunday.

Stephen,
Here is the temps for both Birdsville and Moomba for the last week and they are about the same. No constant 45 though. You all should leave that hot southern land and come to balmy central Queensland.

Moomba Daily

Birdsville daily

Balmy observations

Had 43 for a few days in Yulara a couple of months ago on our travels. Being from Darwin we will take the dry heat over the humidity any day of the week. I don't remember though having every TV network being at Yulara reporting on the heat when we were there.
Unless you are working or camping outside the hot days are easier to deal with than 20 years ago with most cars, homes and work places being a/c these days.
Hope it cools down for all and you get a bit of rain come your way in the next few days.

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Eagle,
You need to get that Mackay thermometer seen to. It appears to be stuck on 30 degrees. lol

Hi eagle and Az....and of course Allan

It's funny thay you have those details on Moomba.

I was only speaking to an old friend at work this morning, who happens to work up there. When I mentioned your above figures, he just laughed, and said like hell.

They only work on thermometers under buildings and not the Internet, and just last week at 7:30am it was already 41 degrees, and most days when they are out in the field, it is well over 50.

Have to agree 100% Az regarding the humidity. A good clear heat is no problems at all and as we all get older, we just seem to take them in our strole .

I personally find that clear days up to 38 are just fine, but once they get over 40, they are just hot.

The silly part about it is if say for example it is a perfect 32 degrees and you have a 4 degree increase to 36, you can feel the increase, where as any increase over 40 is not noticeable........its just bloody hot.....lol

One of my sons works up in the Pilbra and he can have the hot weather that they get up there....it just goes on for months at a time, where as down here where we live, the 40 plus days usually only hang around for no more than a week and then it is back to anywhere from low to mid 30's.



Cheers



Stephen

Yes, as you can see those figures are the official Bom ones taken from their weather station. Where I live often my thermometer will read say 34C and the Bom figure will be 31C. Their instruments are only about 2K from my house but I guess they are just a little more scientific than mine.

Got to agree, our humidity is just a tad higher than inland.

I have been told and remember this is second hand so I can't be sure if it is true, that when parliament is sitting in Canberra, the temp just outside parliament house will be maybe 40C but at the airport it will be 28C. Guess the house is letting off a lot of hot air. LOL.

The southern states sure have had a flogging this year, it is either blowing like hell, flooding or heat waves. We can send you some steaming coal at a discount rate to keep you all cool down there. Just fire up the old Port Augutta station and all will be good. BTW, this is not a political statement just a dig.

It's good to see the regional centres in the news. Too often we only here about what's happening in Sydney or Melbourne where if they have a hot day then the breakfast shows will make sure the whole country knows about it.

Hi eagle

Don't speak to me about our hopeless Labour Government here in South Australia.....

The very first thing that dear Jay did was flog off all the infrastructure inside the power station at Port Augusta and had that very large chimney demolished so no future government could get the power station up and running again.

If you believe the blatant lies that our Treasurer Tom told us, there was only 3 years of coal left at Leigh Creek......but guess what. A journalist did some digging the other day and our government look like the fools they are....

He found from PIRSA reports that there is infact over 500 million tonnes of coal left at Leigh Creek, and a lot at only 10 metres below the surface. Of the 500 million tonnes, only 100 million was high grade suitable for our now demolished power station, and on the above figures from PIRSA ( a Government Body ) would have been able to keep the Port Augusta power station running for over 30 years......far more that our dear treasurer stated at only 3 years.

In the mean time, our state has suffered 4 major power blackouts since September last year and expects have warned we have not even seen the worst of it yet and with the closure of the Victorian Power Station, we will and must expect serious power outages and next summer will be the real test.

Like many country poeple that have lost power for up to 3 days and longer, and not hours, we only wished the power outages were like that in the city where our politicans live. If city folks lost their power for 3 days, you would see dear Jay, Tom and their cronies hanging in Victoria Square in the heart of Adelaide and be made to explain to the poeple in South Australia what real fools they are.

So to answer your question, we would love some of your coal, but our useless Labour Government had the power station demolished and now reply interconnect power from Victoria and New South Wales.


Cheers from the Blackout State....




Stephen

It could be worse, they could build a de-sal plant at the cost of many billions of dollars and then never need it.
I thought the Labor party looked after the workers. Who would set up any reasonable sized business in SA if the is an unreliable power suppy.
Get a generator that will run your fridge and freezer, I think this is the only answer.

Stephen., I can see your frustration about incompetent decisions. I don't have any idea on who advises these people in government, BUT you really have to wonder, when such big steps are made who takes responsibility for the outcome, which in your case isn't nice. Maybe yes minister.

Should leave this alone as all sides of politics have some really serious brain fades at times.

Will get of this topic and I hope the weather cools around Australia for everyone.

BTW. last time I went through Clare I got seriously wet and had a giggle at a fella that polished some gears in a K model Kenworth. That was at your Wright St roundabout, local had decided to enter the roundabout not looking at the 42 tonnes trying to remove his daily driver. Different states, different drivers but always the same. Ha.ha.

Tip. Get friendly with the local cold store owner.

Hi again eagle and Chris

Do not laugh Chris, that is exactly whst dear Jay did a few years ago, and guess what........it has never put one single drop of water back into our system....yet another example of tax payers money down the tube.

Have you heard about the RAH ( Royal Adelaide Hospital ).......the worlds...yes that is correct, the worlds most expensive hospital ever built. I think from memory 2 years behind schedule, never had one patient admitted and then the government brags it is saving tax payers $1 million a day for not having it open yet. I would have thought that would have made national news......lol

The cool change has finally hit and it is now a beautiful 20 degrees outside and will be a great night for sleeping and an expected 23 tomorrow.

Eagle, it is real hot up in Birdsville. They showed the local policeman on top of Big Red cooking an egg in a fry pan .....now that is hot...lol


Keep cool everyone where ever you are in this great Nation. It's the people that make this country the best, and not our politicians, what ever side we back.



Cheers



Stephen

Getting a bit off topic, but I heard the other day Defence was spending another $20 million on generators to have the subs built in SA. Apparently the SA Govt. can't guarantee power.

I thought we were having problems in WA.

Hi Rody

The power problem is very bad, and the public have had a guts full now.

The other day our Premier announced that SA count put its own new power system in so we are not relyant on the National grid.

They have just over 12 months to get things sorted out, as if it continues, they will get smashed in our next state election.


Cheers



Stephen

One link to the generator announcement by Christopher Pyne.

Cheer

Anthony

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No Chris, I would not swap our Sunshine Coast weather for this thank you very much!

p.s. Just back from a beautiful Fraser Island trip. Ahh, bliss!

I'm sure Perth's weather has made the news where you are ... floods floods floods windy and cool. We live in a land of extremes.

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Hi Michelle,
Yes, we got the news. In fact the 'link' in my post above was to just that.
But we will be in Albany/Margaret River etc. area in early May en-route home from a Kimberley Cruise, so if you would be so kind as to arrange some great weather I would really appreciate it.