Melbourne people brace yourselves for the heatwave

[cat_mioux]

If you don't have an A/C like me please post your handy tips for staying cool. 🙂

The evening before:

Fill up the icetrays and freeze plastic bottles of water.

Cut up lots of fruit like mangoes and watermelon and leave in the fridge. You won't feel like cooking tomorrow.

Fill up a spray bottle and keep in the fridge.

Close all curtains and blinds before you go to bed.

The day:

Laze around on the sofa and don't use the stove or the oven.

Drink lots of cool water with ice.

When the house starts heating up turn the fans on and place those frozen bottles of water you prepared earlier in a shallow tray in front of the fan.

Wipe down your pets with a cool wash cloth.

Place icecubes in their water bowls.

Place a large damp towel on the floor in front of the fans for your pets to lay on.

Wet a wash cloth/bandana and place that around your neck.

Have lukewarm showers or sit in a lukewarm bath. Wet your hair and if long put it up.

Evening:

If the temp drops open all the doors and windows. Put a linen or pure cotton bed sheet in the fridge for a couple of hours. Put an icepak on your pillow and move fan into the bedroom and place frozen bottles of water on a shallow tray in front of the fan and direct it on your bed. Place cold sheet on your bed. Jump in the shower and go to bed naked and wet.

😄

[bright.ton42]

That's diabolocal.  .  At least in Melb our hot day tomorrow

has a cool change expected during the night.  Any more than one 40deg day running and I'm history. 

About the birds and wildlife, good suggestion to leave water

containers out by the street in the shade.  They suffer terribly. 

And totally an absolute nono to walk dogs in the heat.  They 

will walk alright as they don't understand but so easily succumb to the heat.  

[purple_haize]

We have bird baths around for all the birds here in the hills, they love it, come and have a drink and a splash around.

Starting to get hot up here now, but not too bad yet.

[cat_mioux]

It looks like it's not just Victoria 😞

And Adelaide's week is well .. diabolical is just the right word for it!

Keep cool everyone, look after our beloved pets and wildlife and lets pray for no bushfires.

I have an attic bedroom. The heat drove me from it this morning. It's lovely and cool downstairs but by tonight it will feel hot. And don't even speak about how hot my bedroom will be tonight. X-(

[monman12]

"Be careful hosing down your dogs...the water on their coats can actually heat up in extreme weather"

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Unless the humidity is 100%, and it will not be (about 30%), water evaporating will always be at a lower temperature than the surrounding air, hence evaporative coolers.

Hairy/fluffies coats are pretty good insulators so cool their feet/stomach/ears/  if they are overheated, and have plenty of drinking water available.

[tasfleur]

We're supposedly going to have a heat wave here too this far south, but on the radar so far, just all looks like lots of cloud a little rain .. it's not clear what's going on at the moment in this area .....  :_|

Even so, we've taken a lot of the suggestions on board, thanks everyone xx

[clair.de.lune]

Will someone go and buy me an ice cream?

[tasfleur]

[cat_mioux]

Will someone go and buy me an ice cream?

I've only got Bitters Lime & Lemon icypoles. Will that do?

Wow! Having frozen bottles of water in front of a fan really does work! The floor and sofa the fan is directed towards is actually colder than the rest of the house.

The kitties are starting to flop.

[clair.de.lune]

aw tas I can't get out to get one, well I can but bit hot

yes an icypole will do 

[carls*world]

Well that's already been updated.... again.

Now forecast 44 tomorrow