Victoria: Extreme Heat - January 11th-12th 2010

[I_Love_Storms]

I think 41 for today...doesn't have to rise too far.

[johnno]

Yeah 41 or 42c depending on cloud but its quite possible now.


Hats goes off to GFS in picking this extended heatwave apart from the shallow change Saturday which EC got GFS has been right about everything else.. Mainly the intensity of the heat and the duration of it always had the change coming through Tuesday with Tuesday being hot too looks like it will be right on the money so GFS solid record with heatwaves looks like it will continue.

[Pengaz]

Fwoar hows Wilsons Prom at 4:30am this morning! 35.9C in darkness with the NNW blowing, that must have been absolutely putrid!

Got down to the low 20's here at home last night, but with ~80% rh and DP's fluctuating between 18-19C, was quite oppressive. Just went for a run out there and conditions are perfect at the moment, no wind and some haze to take the sting out of the sun.

Watch the temps sky rocket by 9am out this way-if Wilsons Prom is any indication!

[Macedonian]

29.4C overnight in Macedon. Mental.

[AUSSKY]

Observations from the drive Trentham to Abbotsford 5.55am till 7.10am.....

25.6C when I left home
roads that melted near Tylden yesterday afternoon now under speed restriction and have cooled like glass!
30C Sunbury
33.3C Taylors Lakes (6.40am)
35C Essendon
Currently 25.4C Trentham

The joggers were out jogging in 35C this morning - now that's a definition of insanity!!!!!

[windyrob]

Today should be declared a state holiday due to lack of sleep!

[norfolk]

Yeah 41 or 42c depending on cloud but its quite possible now.


Hats goes off to GFS in picking this extended heatwave apart from the shallow change Saturday which EC got GFS has been right about everything else.. Mainly the intensity of the heat and the duration of it always had the change coming through Tuesday with Tuesday being hot too looks like it will be right on the money so GFS solid record with heatwaves looks like it will continue.

And I was going with GFS this whole time!

[Rhys_34]

Unfortunately Melbourne was more then 4C off the January record minimum of 28.8C due to the temp being 24C yesterday at 9am, the BOM really need to look at the way the record overnights mins Who knows how many ridiculously high minimum temps like last night have been lost over the years due to the 24-hour way a minimum temp is recorded? We actually don't even know if last nights 32.3C is really a record, there could be higher out there if we recorded from 9pm to 9am over the years!

[norfolk]

yeah if u look at the BOM site, they have the min so far at 32.3c, however the change has hit here and I guess will hit the city in the next 10mins or so. So it may just get below the 30c now!

[Skywalker]

Can confirm the change has gone through here in Sunshine West as well, about 15 minutes ago.

[Dane]

Westerley Change through here, gusting up to 20 knots on my station. Got down to 28.8c at 1.17am, was 32.6c at 8am just before the change hit, has only fallen a little as its still 30.7.0 now. Notice Wilsons Prom only a max of 21c yesterday, but overnight the northerly came through and it hit 36c at 5am.

[Lara_Hunter]

9:00am has arrived. Overnight low of 31.0c, beat it by 0.4c. I slept like a baby

[norfolk]

welcome Lara, however you will find 8.49 is at 30.6c. Will find out at the 9.05am update if it gets below the 30.5, which I will say it will. However we could say the temp before 9am is 30.6 which is 0.1c above the record!

[johnno]

Hope your right DJ you would think thats how it should work but don't know have to wait and see.

Minimum temp is offically equal record (thanks to the change taking few degrees off) 30.6c offically which equals the 1st Feb 1902 record Terry Ryan just pointed that out on radio

[cim85]

32.3C 39RH wind from NW here at present - looking forward to some natural airco with the cool change this afternoon.

[norfolk]

ok I thought the record was 30.5! I failed LOL

[firestorm]

hovered around 30 all night = a hard night of sleep but temps are slowly cooling back with the W/SW wind trying to make itself felt but having a hard time atm.
managed to get 0.6mm of rain around 6pm last night after a little summery downpour.

[Proteous]

102 F here atm. Bloody hell.

[tizza]

I can see the clouds clearing from the W-NW, ARGH! enough already, agreed that a 4c temp drop has been nice but will it last? I think not. Proteous that is filthy!!!

[Rhys_34]

Thanks for the information hillbilly, do you know where any of the general public can access these 9pm to 9am overnight temp statistics for Melbourne? Or does the BOM not release that information to the public via their website?