Forty One degrees

Forecast of 41C on the NSW Central Coast tomorrow

I remember about 10 years ago hearing a talk on the radio about high temperatures. A woman from Alice Springs was asked what temperatures of 40C felt like, and we in Sydney listened in awe as we had never experienced such temperatures.

How times have changed. Last year we had a day at 40C and this year we have already had 42C and it is only November. Tomorrow is forecast to be 41C.

The Australian Liberal (actually Tea-Party) Government is clinging desperately to coal as the world finally gets into gear to tackle climate change. I would leave the whole cabinet out in the town square tomorrow and only supply a water hose when they came to their senses.

Temperatures and heat waves

Last week while Sydney sweltered  in the heat wave that delivered 40C temperatures for several days in a row, I sweltered under my own internal heat wave.  I never knew a sinus infection could ground one so thoroughly.

After picking up the keys for my new abode I unpacked the mattress from the car then took to my bed, or rather took to my mattress.  I lay for 6 days contemplating my new walls from mattress level, incapable of doing more than reaching for a glass of water. By the time the antibiotics were starting to work my intentions of painting the walls had evaporated entirely.They seem just fine as they are, at least from mattress level.