Adelaide's wet summer continues

[davidc4430]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-06/adelaides-wet-summer-continues/8243568

here in wallaroo, 34mm in last 24hrs and its still raining. temp, low 20's

crazy thing is the forcast is for 40c on wednesday, 38c on thursday and 37c on friday!

[lyndal1838]

Calling all Melbourneites....anyone got a room for rent till after the weekend when hopefully it will be safe to return to Sydney?

Edit.....David how are your animals coping with the heat and how is your electricity supply holding up?  Any more blackouts?

[davidc4430]

we are doing ok, i have the airconditioning running all the time. as its evaporative it struggles on above 40c weather. and if it gets at all humid it just becomes very very sweaty. so far its been pretty good, when outside is 43c inside is about 33c a drop of 10 degrees.

foo sleeps all the time, there is plenty of cool water to drink. i take him outside a couple of times a day so he can have a pee and we get up before sunrise for his morning walk and wait till the sun sets for the nightly.

rosie actually seems to like laying in the hottest places during the day, she'll get in a window between the curtains and window! she comes out every so often and flops on the floor but once she cools down returns to the window!

i put fresh water in the canary cage every day, on these hot days he jumps straight in the water and has a bath, flinging water everywhere.

we have been very lucky as we have not had our power cut off, i feel for those who have lost theirs. its not good enough in 2017 for anyone to be cut off because there isnt enough to go around. so i'm crossing everything we do noy join the cut offs whilst this heatwave continues.

most of the time having a privatised elecricity system is fine, its during heatwaves we discover its pitfalls.

[lyndal1838]

Cats can be contrary at times but it is no good arguing with them.   Dogs have the right idea....just lie there quietly.

My AC is refrigerated but even it is struggling at the moment...the temperature is well over 40 now but luckily the humidity is fairly low.

We were warned yesterday of possible blackouts this afternoon but so far all is going well.   I have a feeling we may run into trouble when people start arriving home from work and turning on their ACs.

[davidc4430]

very hot here, waiting for sunset to get out so foo can do what a foo needs to do,

[lyndal1838]

Well at least your cat has seen some sense and vacated the window sill.   I am surprised they are not flat out on the wooden floor boards.  It would be cooler.

My cat originally beloinged to my daughter who lived in the western suburbs of Sydney where it get very hot.  The cat lived in the bathroom on the tile floor for most of the summer.   When she came to us she used to get into the bath or shower recess on the south side of the house which was definitely the coolest room in the house.

[davidc4430]

5 minutes after that photo rosie was back in the front window in the sun, lol

as my house is an off the ground home, not on a concrete slab, the hot air gets under the house and floors although not hot are no cooler than anywhere else. even the tiled floor in the bathroom warms up during very hot weather. never even thought about something like that when buying the house. would i have still bought here had i known, most likely yes as theres not a huge choice here for sea front homes that i could afford that have slab floors.

small 2 bedroom houses are really most commonly built this way here.

[bushies.girl]

Today's modern houses may have concrete slabs, but most of them also seem to be lacking eaves, verandahs etc, so there is nothing to keep the hot sun off the windows. Unless there is an awning on every window, to keep the sun off the glass, these houses heat up very quickly and require more power to keep them cool. They also have tiled roofs, which maintain the heat for longer than a tin one, hence the house stays hotter for a longer period. imo They are not designed to cope with the Aust heat at all.

[tasfleur]

      *Foo and Rosie are cool*

[davidc4430]

just came back from foos evening stroll, tiny bit of cool breeze every now and then out there.

guess who krept into foos bed?

[davidc4430]

my house has a full length garage along one side, shade cloth over the top of the other side and a roofed in back area with that smoked plastic corregated stuff to keep it dry across the back. i have my clothes line there so i can get stuff dry most days even if its raining. only the front of the house has no protection but i do have very heavy curtains on the front windows that block out heat quite well.

but not much you can do during a heat wave, everything gets hot eventually.

i have raked ceilings throughout so no heat build up in the roof.

ceiling fan in the front room to keep the air moving.

i replaced the evaporative aircon last summer so its about as good as it gets there.

in my bedroom ive installed a wall mounted oscillating fan, works better than the ceiling fan i had before.

only one more day, fingers crossed, sunday should be back to the 20's