RE: A Look Back To 2009 - 120 degrees in Australia
July 22, 2011 at 8:23 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2011 at 8:23 am by Justtristo.)
(July 21, 2011 at 8:31 pm)padraic Wrote: In summer the temperature often reaches 120 F in parts of Australia, but once it's over 100 it becomes moot.
Here in Adelaide we regularly have a week at time of 100F and it gets as high as 110+. Last year,we reached stage 4 water restrictions; no washing your car with a hose,watering the garden allowed for a couple of hours every alternate day. Heavy fine for breaches.
The government paid me $450 towards the installation of a new toilet cistern which uses about half as much water.
As far as I'm aware the highest temperature recorded in inhabited Australia is 140F, at Marble Bar, Western Australia. The town also set a world record , with the longest consecutive period of temperatures above 100F; from 31 October to 7 April 1924.
Northern Victoria is much the same as Adelaide during the summer, temperatures top 100F pretty regularly and temperatures of 115F have been recorded. 113F I believe is the hottest day I have ever experienced in my whole life back in 2009.
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