Oh, please...

Wow, thats a cute number there [bigrolf]

We had a nice and dry 43c yesterday

If you like that, you're going to love this...

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The app displays warnings issued by the BOM. These speak in terms like "life threatening". If that were the case then the warnings would be appreciated, but all they do is get people running around with their hair on fire over what are actually below average temps for Victoria at this time of year. So we get a "the sky is falling" attitude while at the same time desensitising people to the real purpose of warnings of that nature.
Mike says its 43° where he is. While not an everyday occurrence, temps like that are not unheard of in Melbourne. That's when we need warnings if we must have them. The CFA uses "Code Red" for those days. They really are "life threatening", because that's when we get bushfires.

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I think the wide spread use of A/c especially in peoples homes and cars has contributed to the rapid expansion of the population in Qld, as a lot of people wouldn't live here without a/c. I always advise people moving here from cooler climes to get a car with a/c, but one of my mates ignored me and bought one without, luckily he was a mechanic so bought an a/c system from a wrecker and installed it in his car.

I don't know what all the fuss is about, it regularly gets to 40C+ here during summer.
We are in Australia and it is Summer so of course it is going to get Hot.

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I think the wide spread use of A/c especially in peoples homes and cars has contributed to the rapid expansion of the population in Qld, as a lot of people wouldn't live here without a/c. I always advise people moving here from cooler climes to get a car with a/c, but one of my mates ignored me and bought one without, luckily he was a mechanic so bout an a/c system from a wrecker and installed it in his car.

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Funny. When I moved from Melb to SEQ in the early 80s I wondered what everyone was on about. Melbourne gets WAY hotter than anything I experienced there. But it doesn't do it all day, every day. I also used to laugh at my workmates moaning about winter mornings. 12°!! Brrrr.. Where I come from that's the maximum in July! They knew it would get to mid 30s during the day.

A/C was only for the rich. I sure didn't have it.

Somerset Dam, 1982. The wall is a couple of hundred metres behind me. Lovely 38° day. Dogs were hardly panting. They'd just had their weekly Asuntol bath for ticks. Given how much they loved baths, so had I.

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Funny. When I moved from Melb to SEQ in the early 80s I wondered what everyone was on about. Melbourne gets WAY hotter than anything I experienced there. But it doesn't do it all day, every day. I also used to laugh at my workmates moaning about winter mornings. 12°!! Brrrr.. Where I come from that's the maximum in July! They knew it would get to mid 30s during the day.

A/C was only for the rich. I sure didn't have it.

Somerset Dam, 1982. The wall is a couple of hundred metres behind me. Lovely 38° day. Dogs were hardly panting. They'd just had their weekly Asuntol bath for ticks. Given how much they loved baths, so had I.

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Lurve the exhaust pipe tip

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Lurve the exhaust pipe tip

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Hey, it was a 307. Nothing but the best for it.

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Hey, it was a 307. Nothing but the best for it.

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HT should have been a 308, was the 307 retro-fitted?

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HT should have been a 308, was the 307 retro-fitted?

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Nope. Early HT used up existing supplies of the 307, Powerglide combo, prior to the 308 Trimatic. It's possibly a rare car, well it could be if I still had it. That particular car was fitted with a ute ratio diff, so acceleration was surprising. Even in those days though, fuel costs were also surprising.. 60 MPH ( no pansy kilometres for that car ) would see it run out of breath.