Well the warm up to 51°F was good. Spent a few
hours outside doing some yard work. A person is
always going to have this chore if they have a yard.
I believe most of you know what I mean.
....
Have Yourself a Blessed Day.
Till Next Time My Friend
Well, we had the 51° here today too, °C that is!!
The BoM said the official temp here was only 44°C, but I reckon that's only ever 'real' in their dinky Stevenson Screen boxes tucked away on the manicured and watered lawns in solid shade under 100 year old deciduous trees planted in the water cooled breezes near the Torrens River in the City amongst the acres of Parkland there; while
my thermometer/Weather station shows a far more realistic reading, cos it's out in the real weather, on the little bit of patchy lawn that survives the toxic eucalyptus fall-out in the dappled shade of native trees in the back yard of our house in the outskirts of suburbia, where people
actually live, and
it hit 50° C shortly after 10:00 this morning, peaked just a smidge over 51°C shortly after Midday, and then didn't drop back below 50°C until about 16:00 this arvo!! Whatever way you look at it tho, it was a bloody hot day here in South Oz!!
I didn't spend more than 10 minutes at a time out in the yard, and even so, only did that a couple of times today when I really couldn't avoid it; but then this evening, I did add a few more 'melted asphalt' tire tracks to the bitumen at the end of the drive when I peeled out heading over to my Son's place to water his veggie garden at about 21:30 - yes, the asphalt was still tacky then, almost an hour after sunset!! (No point watering earlier, it would've just boiled the veggies in the ground!) Today wasn't the first day that's been this hot this week either, and we've been told to expect a few more days like it before the next cool change comes thru, maybe next week, so any riding I
might get to do atm will hafta start pre-dawn and be short enough that I can get home by about 10:00... I must be getting soft in my old age, or maybe I'm not quite as crazy as I useta be?!
It's about 23:25 here right now, the temp is still 39°C, and even tho we're better off up here in the Hills rather than down amongst the concrete jungle on the plains, it's still un-characteristically humid for this time of year, so every time I go outside it feels like the instant sweat that hits just won't evaporate and I'm breathing soup!! So it's probly gonna be an uncomfortable & sticky night, even with the AC on!! But at least I am still breathing, that's gotta count for something!
So enjoy the cool while you can, it might get hot sooner than you'd really like, and maybe hotter than you really want it to get, too!
