Thread: Take care, southerners, heat wave coming

We had 44c yesterday followed by a cool change and steady rain since 0430 today.

Most relaxing.

Originally Posted by Tombie

We had 44c yesterday followed by a cool change and steady rain since 0430 today.

Most relaxing.

Same here near Warrnambool except the rain started around 1200.

It’s amazing how exhausting the heat has been.

The weather has been a bit weird here (East Kurrajong, lower blue mountains) in the past couple of months. Was quite wet until Christmas but certainly dry since then. We have had temps up to 47 and certainly a few more days in the 40s than most years. But the grass didn’t brown off until the last couple of weeks which normally happens in late November. What I find really different this year is how many trees I have that are very stressed, these are old trees (live on a farm) the bigger ones are well over 100 but they all look stressed. And the creek has dried up for the first time in the 22 years I have been here despite being wet until Christmas as I said above. Some rain about now would be nice....

Well, the garden won't need watering for a while now - cool chage hit us around 5pm last night, it's been pouring since and has just eased although it's still drizzling. 45mm in the gauge overnight - quite damp.

It's cold too - and forecast for low 20's all week now. When is Summer coming?

Originally Posted by LRT

500-800 crossbreds.

Varys a bit as we run out of food & water for them.

The wool prices for the coarser wool means we only cover the shearing cost. All the record prices you hear on the news are for fine Merino wool.

Only 500-800 sheep! Why do you bother? I grew up in Winton and stations like Elderslie, Lerida, Dagworth, Isis Downs, Brighton Downs, Wellshot regularly shore 200,000 plus. A flock of 500 sheep wouldn't have fed the workforce on Dagworth in its heyday. Sadly most were cut up for "closer settlement" into too small blocks that starved many settlers into submission. Wellshot is national park and most of the remaining big stations now raise cattle. Kynuna Station and Dagworth are now run as one entity, cattle only, and the total workforce is eight people. Casual and contract labour called in as necessary.

Bob, as a boy in Winton I remember eating mutton, mutton, mutton. Mutton fried, grilled, roasted, corned, smoked into mutton ham. I still prefer mutton to lamb but no butcher stocks it these days. Grandfather was a drover and no drover's family was ever short of meat.

Queensland weather: Mount Isa road worker says Brisbane can't complain about the heat - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

We are TOUGH (or is that STUPID) up this way.


We have 1 kid with heat stress so far. The Dill spent all yesterday afternoon playing touch footy!
Paying for it today though.

Been great in WA so far mostly low 30s high 20s and cool of a night in the southern half . Dont know where the usual hot and bloody hot summer has gone but dont miss it . Maybe it has all gone over East this year .