I have been hibernating today because of the heat. Roll on Monday when a cool change is forecast.
I had to drive David to a friends house this afternoon and it took a while before I could hold the steering wheel with more than just one finger and one thumb until the aircon kicked in. Luckily the friend is driving him home, so I don't have to go out again.
Fans and aircon are going like the clappers at the moment.
February is the only month I really dislike here in Australia. It is always hot and humid, but this year is particularly hot. We are melting this weekend.
I have had a lovely day of photography and playing with Photoshop. I will post some of the photos I have taken during the next few days.
@365projectorgjenfurj We get a sea breeze here too, only live 200 metres from the beach, but no breeze today. Like being hit with a wet hot sponge when we set foot outside this evening.
@hrs as I said to Jen we live 200 metres from the beach but no sea breeze this evening. Got a text from the RFS saying catastrophic fire danger stay away from bushland. I think wr are in for a hot night
This is the perfect way to depict this awful weather we are having. We have just had a huge thunderstorm and luckily for once it was right over our house. We went out the front to capture the lightning and the rain has cooled things down slightly. I hope you stay cool over the weekend.
This is an excellent visual of "melting from the heat"! It sounds like you could have just set the candles in the sun and they would have melted into puddles. Y'all are having a real heat wave, hope you get relief soon.
Superb image full of colour and gorgeous reflected light, Fav. hope its soon cools so you can have both hands on the wheel, I have heated seats that come on when I start the car in low temperatures its also fitted with aircon. for if it ever gets hot, lol:)
Stick a towel over it when you leave the car Babs. I can't get over the weather, all you guys (and northern Victoria) are sweltering and we can't get more than two hot days in a row. No-one has ripe tomatoes yet.
I feel for you, at least I can wrap up and add more layers but there's not a lot you can do in the heat. Your melting candles just say it all, fave. I just hope it cools down soon for you.
@stephanies I remember cold Stephanie and it was very difficult to wrap up and keep warm from memory. In the heat we just move from air conditioned home, to air conditioned car, to air conditioned buildings and stay out of the heat of the day. Evenings are cooler and early mornings too so we cope. Much cooler today. We only usually get a few days of really high temperatures at a time and then some respite for a few days. February is our worst month for heat.
I can't get my head around your February being so hot Babs..... I am glad you have air con though, as you know it rarely gets hot enough here to bother getting it installed.
@onewing I used to have a sort of steering-wheel slip-on/off cover made from the silver stuff windscreen sunscreens are made of. That was good (and lived in the car in summer) but I've mislaid/lost it.
@kjarn It has been awful. A friend of ours has just phoned to see how bad the storm yesterday was here. They have been at Hornsby for a couple of days and the hail was so bad there he has got a lot of dings on his car. We only got marble size hail here.
Lovely to have a cool day today, only 21 degrees but quite a relief.
Ian
Lovely to have a cool day today, only 21 degrees but quite a relief.