Tag: weather

cottoncandydumpass:

iamshadow21
replied to your photo “Feels like 97.”

FUCK

ME”

We had 47C this summer gone, in a heatwave lasting two weeks that didn’t dip below 35C. But that’s Australia for you.

reminds me of growing up in arizona.  it got up to almost 49C (aka it got to 120F) on the regular, and p much only ever dropped below 38 in the middle of the night during the summer.

how humid is it where you live tho? ‘cause that’s the thing, I’d happily take 47-48C with low humidity over 35-36C with HIGH humidity, which is what we’ve got here in satan’s ballsack.

Humid enough to be nasty. I spent six years at a higher altitude, where the heat was dry and it was bearable. Last year I moved back to Sydney. We’re out at the western extremity of the city, which means we’re nowhere near the ocean or any cooling breezes from it, but we are in a river valley next to a mountain range. So, in Summer, all the humidity sits in the valley and won’t leave.

And Australia’s a big place. People thing ‘oh, yeah, mostly desert, dry heat’. Well, our population is way lower, but our dimensions are comparable to the USA, so we cross enough lines of latitude to have a LOT of different zones of climate. Tasmania may be not far off European temps and gets snow in the winter, but up the top? It’s tropical. There’s a wet and a dry season, Darwin is always 32C and raining, and there are occasional outbreaks of malaria.