after a quite mild summer so far, that old hot & humid brisbane summer weather is making a comeback! u get out of the shower in the morning, and you basically start sweating even before you've finished drying yourself. walk outside from an air-conditioned building, and it feels like you just dove into a big pool of tom yum goong - a hot & sour thai soup. or at least, you're floating in the steamy vapour just above the simmering soup. get into your car after it's been parked outside, and it feels like you're stepping into a kiln in which you could bake small pottery items. and you could fry an egg on the roof (over-hard, please).
we've probably got at least a month and a half of this ahead of us, maybe more, before things hopefully settle down again and the weather starts approaching autumnal. everyone always says, "wait until february comes!" ... well, the february weather is here now. every brisbane maximum temp for the next week is forecast to be at least 30 degrees celsius (i think that's about 82 farenheit?). that temperature isn't so bad if it were dry heat (we are quite used to temperatures up to 40 celsius or 104 farenheit), but that combined with a high HUMIDITY (e.g. 70-80%) is what really gets you - hence the hot & sour soup phenomenon!
oh well, we've survived this numerous times before ... i just hope it's no worse than past summers; plus i hope we get a lot of showers of rain to boot, to ease the drought, keep all the plants green, and cool us off just a bit. but no hail or nasty electricity storms please! ;-D
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we've probably got at least a month and a half of this ahead of us, maybe more, before things hopefully settle down again and the weather starts approaching autumnal. everyone always says, "wait until february comes!" ... well, the february weather is here now. every brisbane maximum temp for the next week is forecast to be at least 30 degrees celsius (i think that's about 82 farenheit?). that temperature isn't so bad if it were dry heat (we are quite used to temperatures up to 40 celsius or 104 farenheit), but that combined with a high HUMIDITY (e.g. 70-80%) is what really gets you - hence the hot & sour soup phenomenon!
oh well, we've survived this numerous times before ... i just hope it's no worse than past summers; plus i hope we get a lot of showers of rain to boot, to ease the drought, keep all the plants green, and cool us off just a bit. but no hail or nasty electricity storms please! ;-D
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posted by fergal at 7:51 PM
5 Comments:
I don't do celsius...but here in the summer it goes way over 100 degrees fahrenheit. Sheer hell. But I'd take heat over cold anyday.
Am I weird?
mate u wudnt believe how bloody hot n humid Sydney is rite now!!!! I basically slept in my undewear n vest LOL!
Keshi.
I'm the oposite of awaiting -would rather winter -but I guess that's because winter is so mild -still get days around 20 anyway. There have only been a couple of days so far here where it has actually become hot in the house -so it makes me wonder if the worst is yet to come!!
thanx all for ur comments.
awaiting - i used to be like u but i am changing - partly cos i swear it's getting hotter each summer! plus our 'winter's here are mild - NEVER gets below freezing even on the coldest nights (minimums never below about 45 farenheit) and the days usually get to about 75 farenheit; plus virtually no rain. it's goood!
keshi - what do u mean by a vest? sounds interesting ... ;-D
lee - not sure whereabouts in nsw u are? but surely your heat/humidity usually wouldn't get close to queensland! ;-D
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LOL!
Vest = tee
:)
Keshi.
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