A Look Back To 2009 - 120 degrees in Australia

[Justtristo]

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.

[The Magic Pudding]

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.

You've confirmed my view point, a region best left to the lizards.
We've got an air conditioner called the Pacific Ocean here, it's very effective.
In summer places 1000km closer to the south pole are regularly 10°C hotter, in winter they freeze.