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.

😄

[cat_mioux]

Glad to hear Nessie is doing okay. 🙂

The contents of my freezer were melting! I pulled out the fridge and dusted the back of it then de-frosted it. I hope that helps.

My BItters Lime & Lemon icypoles were melting!  😮

[happyroo_bunji]

Not the icypoles melting! 😮

Cleaning behind the freezer should help.

I went and raided mum and dads icecream stash tonight, at about 8.30pm and Nessie finally wanted her dinner.  She usually has her dinner at 4pm!

[cat_mioux]

33c at 1am?!!

You have got to be joking 😮

[cat_mioux]

I hope Nessie is feeling better and cooler today.

The books in my bedroom have been heat damaged i.e the covers and pages have warped.

[purple_haize]

I am going out today to buy more of those ice blocks, getting prepared for the next hot day.

I hope Nessie is feeling better today as well.

With that heat Ms. Mioux, nothing would surprise me.........I have no energy today and I didnt do a thing yesterday.

[bright.ton42]

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The books in my bedroom have been heat damaged i.e the covers and pages have warped.

That is unbelievable!   I've never heard of that. 

btw  I used to soak my cat down in the heat and he let

me and loved it.  Yet the soppy thing would still like

to lay outside and I'd have to force him in. 

Glad Nessie is feeling better too. 

Sitting here in Melb with a cool breeze coming in and it's heaven.  

[twinkles**stars]

The temperature profile of the Melbourne heatwave of January and February 2009. Note the three consecutive days over 43C in late January, followed by a record 46.4C on February 7.  Melbourne's average maximum temperature for this time of the year is 26C.

So our current 'heat wave' is mild compared to 2009?

[cat_mioux]

I had a local newspaper sitting on the outdoor table yesterday. The first few pages are actually yellow. They look scorched!

My bedroom is in the attic (and no insulation) so it must have got very hot up there yesterday. Probably hotter than outside. I didn't go to bed until the cool change hit.

This cool breeze is bliss! The windows are wide open and the kitties have perched themselves on top of their cat gyms to take advantage.

I have a friend over for lunch Monday. 38C. *sigh*. Looks like cold salads and fruit for lunch.

I remember that 46C day. But I had A/C then. ohhhh the memories.  :^O

[happyroo_bunji]

Thankyou for your kind thoughts about Nessie.

She seems ok today, just sleeping all the time, which if I had the choice I'd sleep all day too!

I've got to head off to work soon, I've pinched mums car as the a/c in mine has decided to cark it.

Stay safe everyone, I'll pop in here tonight after work.

[happyroo_bunji]

Ugggh 40c is the expected top temp today here.

Nessies back legs keep going from under her, she tumbled down the back step yesterday (we have a little ramp for her, but she won't use it).  Then later on in the day she fell over and couldn't get up.  But when we picked her up she seemed ok.  We know from previous vet visits that due to the spinal damage she has messages from the brain to her back legs don't always get there.

We are taking her to the vet today.