hottest day in record in melbourne Australia...

[Aaron from Aus]

I havent posted in a while.

and thought it might be a good time to post.

We just had 45.9 in melboune.

in your terms...116 something.. alittle hotter where i am though.

While you guys are freezing from all accounts.

just thought it might be an interesting discussion regarding global warming etc...

ie: we in the south are peak of our summer and hottest temps...amd some of you...the coldest.

we aslo had the hottest 4 days in row over over 40 last week. (furthe north have had over 14 days of 40)

so question is have many of you in the north noticed any unusual weather in your north winter??

That might indicate any dramitic change?

[Das_Prachtstrasse]

I could hear my dash cracking under the dash mat today. Also not the best of days to have a leather interior..

It was the breeze that was the killer, upwards of 30kt's in places and blowing at 45 celcius made venturing outside comparable to being in a fan forced oven. Even the pool was too hot.

[Justin_FL]

Sounds hot in the southern hemisphere

Here in South Florida, we had record lows below 32°F (freezing, 0°C) earlier this week following a cold front, along with 15-20mph winds during the day. It felt cool! Agriculture and farming is pretty big in the middle of this state, so quite a few farms lost their seasonal crops, where it got even colder. I was upset because that was my car washing morning, and because the humidity was extremely low, I felt it was above 40°F (5°C) and safe to wash... had to get out my credit card to scrape the ice off the windshield after my botched attempt at washing the bugs off in 35°F! The ice warning chime did "bong" at me in the E39 as I waited for the heat to defrost the windshield...

If you listen to the climatologists, these unusual extremes in seasonal weather conditions are part of the trends pointing towards of global warming. In the northern US and Canada, the news reports talk of record temperatures and snowfall, etc.

[KingCast]

Glad they had reasonable weather for the Australian open. Here in GA it was colder than usual in the late fall, coldest in 8 years I hear.

I've been in Boston for the past 10 days or so, and it's been cold as a MF up here. I saw -9.5c on the dash and I heard it got colder than that even.

Just met a bloke from down under who is a sales rep for TyKu liquors, so that was a lot of fun!

http://trytyku.com

-c

[twin55]

On Wednesday morning @5:45am I took my 86 535i out for a spin and for the first time I heard that cold temperature sound/bell and the OBC changed to the temperature display (35 degree).

[Shawn D.]

I've read of the record fires w/ fatalities going on in southeast Australia -- I hope the situation turns around soon!

[vinceg101]

Well, considering we here in SoCal have had a record amount of days over 80 degrees in any one January (something like 15), I'd say the climate is changing. Actually, the temperature was warm even before the New Year.

What's more troubling is our rainfall. The snow pack in the northern Sierras which supplies all of California with water (sans what we siphon off the Colorado River), is at some of its' all time lows. They're talking about water rationing here for the first time in a long time. It may be raining right now here in LA, but that will nothing for the long term. We're entering our 3rd or 4th year of below average rainfalls.

Over the last 20 years I've been here, the general climate has changed considerably; some of it is cyclical, but there has been a steady change. The entire west has shifted to an almost year-round fire season due to these hot, dry windy weather patterns. So look for a lot of smoke this year.