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@davidc4430 wrote:i know i'm getting old(er) and my memory is never that great but i cant remember having heat waves like this before xmas when growing up
they allways were after xmas, usually feb or march
We did have some hot days before Christmas in the past too.
I can well remember one school excursion I was in charge of in early Dec and it was 41c.
There was this swing thing that worked if the person in the middle turned a handle. It could swing about 20 children at a time. We had over 100 kids lined up waiting for a turn while I turned the handle. The other 3 teachers all sat in the shade the whole time watching. I was a bit annoyed as it was hot work and I was 7 months pregnant at the time. I thought they could have chipped in too. Probably why i can remember it. That was in the 1980s and it was a long hot summer as I recall, & it kicked in well before Xmas.
@springyzone wrote:
@davidc4430 wrote:i know i'm getting old(er) and my memory is never that great but i cant remember having heat waves like this before xmas when growing up
they allways were after xmas, usually feb or march
We did have some hot days before Christmas in the past too.
I can well remember one school excursion I was in charge of in early Dec and it was 41c.
There was this swing thing that worked if the person in the middle turned a handle. It could swing about 20 children at a time. We had over 100 kids lined up waiting for a turn while I turned the handle. The other 3 teachers all sat in the shade the whole time watching. I was a bit annoyed as it was hot work and I was 7 months pregnant at the time. I thought they could have chipped in too. Probably why i can remember it. That was in the 1980s and it was a long hot summer as I recall, & it kicked in well before Xmas.
sure, we got the odd very hot days, but extended heat waves and bushfires across the country in early december?
that i cant remember.
they say its a 'once in a lifetime drought' in NSW
what will they say if it happens again in say 4 years from now, well lives can be short you know.
i just keep hearing excuses to do nothing about climate change
and i get it, doing something means not doing things we love doing like burning coal and filling cars with petrol and creating tones of rubbish every year of stuff we dont need.
its allways, things will get better all by themselves (and if they dont i wont be around to care anyway)
a few years ago an agreement was made about the amount of water we were taking from the rivers, now we have NSW saying we wont abide by that because we screwed up and didnt allow for droughts.
they allready did a secret deal to use south australias water and thats not enough?
will they not face the truth until the rivers run dry?
they are sucking too much out of the rivers, they are killing the rivers.
you need to know how much water you need just for survival of your citizens and lock that in, then work out how much for reasonable produce growing while still letting enough flow to keep the rivers healthy.
but greed took over and more and more water was allowed to be sucked out as 'its an endless supply' right?
anyone not involved can see we are growing stuff not for ourselves but for export, like cotton.
i would imagine 80% of water we use evaporates, its crazy.
@twyngwyn wrote:
Salisbury, SA, currently 43.8
Expecting 46 today, Thurs, Fri
Could cook an egg on the cement! Hopefully no power cuts....
I`m in Victoria and with all this hot weather I do hope there are no power outages..2 power stations are not working atm so I have got everything crossed that we don`t get shutdowns!
