Australian pizza oven

So a few minutes ago, at 15:30 daylight saving time, I put the oven thermometer in the car. Outside air temp (I'm on the coast) was 40, inside the car: 77 deg. C, or 170 deg. F.

If I put the roasting chook in now, it might be baked by dinner time...
 
The earth is at it's closest to the sun, and the sun is also starting to get very active again, so neither of those things are helping matters any in Australia. Hopefully it will start to cool a bit as the earth moves farther away in it's orbit. Heree in Virginia, it's been too dry for a long time, and not looking like we'll get much significant precipitation for a while. It sucks being on the downwind side of the mountains. But at least the really hot days came last summer at the same time as the derecho that knocked out our power for over a week. That was fun. Good luck to John and his band of firefighters, and to all in the land of Oz who have to contend with the extra high temps.

PF
 
John - without the incredibly dedicated fireies such you and your team that have, are or will be battling blazes across the continent we'd be a lot worse off. Heartfelt thanks. The best we can do is to have our own bushfire survival plans ready to enact to make your jobs as uncomplicated as possible.
 
Johnmcd said:
Thanks for the reminder!

Tomorrow I lead a small strike team down to Nowra from Sydney composed of four pumpers. Manned by our fire training staff from our State training college. All hands on deck. The fire danger index is officially stated as 'catastrophic'. http://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/page.php?id=888

Expecting 43 degrees C.

Wish me luck.

Cheers - John
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You guys do an amazing job! Thanks.
 
I've been on the West coast for a week in Perth, experiencing a heat wave with several 40+ days in a row. I've flown home to Sydney to our home in the Blue Mountains and the heat has followed us. It's pretty hot out there and the winds are strong, which makes it a bit scary (we live on the edge of the national park).

We actually had a hazard reduction burn get out of control about four months ago, coming close to our house... Which in hindsight was a real blessing. The local volunteer fire fighters (as well as the professionals) do a great job, and a house has never been lost in our neighborhood.

It's actually pretty incredible to see the Bushland regenerate after a big fire has been through it. It's certainly a worthy photographic project...
 
The biggest oddity for me is that tomorrow will be some 20 degrees cooler than today?!

Cheers to all the Fire fighters with their work cut out for them. I struggled enough merchandising heavy terracotta pots at work today.🙁
 
Referring to Lynn's map above, just today the meteorologists in Australia have added two more colours to the legend to take account of higher temperatures expected. 50C+ is bad enough, but as pedicted by climate scientists, with higher temps there is more wind, making matters much worse.
 
I think a lot of people are breathing sighs of relief about now. Several homes lost in the fires in the south-east corner of the mainland today, but no lives lost. 100+ homes lost in Tasmania, and many people not accounted for but no confirmed deaths yet. Almost 11:00 pm here and still 29 degrees C, and forecast for cooler weather tomorrow. Huge thanks to all the firefighters and their support teams and families.
 
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