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That’s not hot! I’ll tell you what hot is…

08 Jan 12:10pm

Filed under: Broken Hill, Climate, Heat, Heat Wave, Summer, Weather

[Ed’s note, at the time of publication the temperature in Sydney was 38 degrees and rising.]

One day with the mercury set to rise above 40 and Sydney is awash with panic the moaning can be heard all the way here in the Outback. Facebook and Twitter is jammed with people’s personal accounts of their preparations to beat the heat almost like Heat Survival plan for one day.

Air conditioning is for wimps… Picture: Braden Fastier

Out here in Broken Hill a day over 40 is the norm this summer we’re in the middle of a 10 day stretch with temperatures over 40. I’m Sydney born and bred and now live in Broken Hill. I just happen to have landed in Broken Hill in the middle of one of their hottest summers ever so I reckon I can speak with some authority about heat.

Let me tell you Sydney about real heat. Real heat is when you wake up at 2am drenched in sweat and you check the temperature and it’s a balmy 35 degrees.

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jg says:

06:21pm | 08/01/13

Rode a camel into the sahara a few years back in 50 degree heat. That was f*cking hot. I mean, really, really f*cking hot. At least it cooled off to about 40 overnight Read more »
Michael says:

06:10pm | 08/01/13

Sunny, the report in your link takes a lot of its information from the Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change, which talks of the increase in Carbon Dioxide levels and on one hand says, “scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal”, then later says, “there is an absence… Read more »

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