Pauls weather blog

About the weather station and other stuff from time to time

Added 14 January 2013, updated around 20 January.

We've had a hot day or so recently, our highest temperature recorded was 43.3 Celsius on 8 January, the end of a hot fortnight, and then it got hotter, 4 days later on 12 January we recorded 46.1 degrees Celcius. The damage we sustained was minimal, some rainforest trees had a few burnt leaves, from heat stroke, they will recover, some had all their leaves burnt, they should recover. Fortunately we had some rain, 3.7mm the day after that hottest day. I stayed in on the 8th, on call with the local Rural Fire Service, on the 12th we went to beach, expecting only a little more than 41C, we came home through a truly violent thunderstorm.