Been using the app WillyWeather. Silly name but nice details.
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sunset is cooking though
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Yeah, a ripper.
38.1 degrees currently in Wodonga. Fires to the west. Summer has arrived.
ASWFC AURORA WATCH
ISSUED AT 0646 UT on 8 Dec 2025
A CME is expected to arrive early on UT day 9-Dec +/- 12 hours and induce G3 geomagnetic storming. Visible aurora may be seen in Tasmania and southern parts of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia during local night hours.
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Best weather day of the year (VIC).
Good luck finding better.
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About time. It’s been shithouse.
Thankfully, I’ve only got a T20 at 9.30 tomorrow. Usually the real heat comes in after 11.30am.
Western Waves U17 Country Week. 9 regions this year - Colac, South West, 2 x Warrnambool Moyne, Hamilton, Portland, Mount Gambier, Horsham, Wimmera Mallee.
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Pretty significant expected maximum temperature for Melbourne tomorrow.
Yeah… yeah… prepared for the “this is an average summer day in Perth!” (or Adelaide) replies… and how somebody spent 26 straight days in 1981 in Hicksville, QLD when it was 47 degrees every single day… as is the usual ■■■■ measuring contest on social media posts.
But this is Melbourne. And not really a regular occurrence.
Only 2 days this decade has it crossed 40°C:
January 31 2020 - 42.9°C
February 16 2023 - 40.5°C
Another 40°C plus expected on Friday too.
Yeah it is going to be rough. Cooling down reasonably well now out my way so getting in some watering (recycled water) for the hot few days coming up (and none of the stuff we cannot talk about forecast).
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Wasn’t that long ago Melbourne recorded 40c+ on a more regular basis than the last 4/5 years.
Agreed.
You could virtually guarantee at least one or two each summer.
Two in (roughly) the last six years is pretty surprising.
Yep. I remember in those draught years (around black Saturday) and earlier there would often be a 2-3 day run of 40c+ days. There seemed to be more extreme hot weather in those days.
Today will be a stinker virtually everywhere in the south-east…
But the models are showing Friday will be a shocker.
They look to be firming with each run that we will see our hottest day (mid 40s) since Black Saturday… with some potentially damaging winds.
Still 48 hours to go and a few factors to consider (potential cloud cover etc) but one to watch.
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Fortunately (in Melbourne at least) we had a very long wet spring. Theres still a fair bit of moisture in the ground and the vegetation is still green. It’s not quite the sort of withered bone-dry grass and trees that makes Black Saturday happen.
Of course, summer is a long way from over yet. The rest of the is week will go a long way to drying out the grass, and that makes the next very hot day more dangerous.
One thing I’ve noticed over the last few climate change years is that springs are getting longer and wetter, but after about Christmas it’s been getting drier and drier for months. Last year my area had ONE day of good rain between the New Year and June ( extremely fortunately it happened to be the day a bushfires broke out 3km from my house). 2-3 years is still far too few to be confident about a pattern, but if the very long dry autumns are going to start combining with some genuine 40+ degree heat on a regular basis, it’s going to get very very dangerous.
My bats at Yarra Bend are going to have a brutal day, probably made worse by the fact that the new bureaucrats in control down there have kicked out from incident management all the volunteers who actually know what they’re doing. But I’m interstate at the moment and can’t be there to help anyway. 
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It’s amazing what a double brick house will do. It’s my first proper summer in one and I’m downstairs watching the cricket feeling a bit chilly.
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just went outside for the first time since 8am
■■■■ this
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It’s dropped 6 degrees in the last half-hour in Portland, from 36 to 30.
Keep dropping you good thing.
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