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The Hottest City in the World

by Ron Kerr
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It seems I live in the hottest city in the world! For today anyway.

UN data says that Adelaide, Australia will be the hottest city today (Thursday) with a predicted temperature of 46C which is just under 115 F. This will be the 4th day in a row over 40C (104 F) and tomorrow is predicted to be over 40 as well.

I look at forecasts for some of the US and can't believe that we can have temperatures that are so far apart. In Adelaide it almost never goes below 0C (32 F) and never snows.

In the part of the city I live in it was 40.6 C (105 F) at 10am.

Just thought someone might be interested.
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    When I lived in Idaho we had a streak of 11 days of record highs one year - can't remember which year it was. Somewhere around 2003 - 05, I think. I was South of Boise and the Snake River in the desert foothills so was always around 10 or 11 degrees above the posted temps. My landlords had been cheap about replacing a roof and replaced it with sheet metal. I went out each afternoon and sprayed the roof with water to cool it down or the house would be baking hot inside by around 8 in the evening. When the water hit the roof it would turn to steam for the first few minutes. I'd spray until I got a good run of it down the house that felt cool again - then would spray again in a couple of hours. That was a miserable couple of weeks out there, so I feel for ya.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Yes, there can be a lot of difference. It barely made it out of single digits today (11 deg. F.) and I spent a good part of the day digging out from a record snowfall.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Braybrooke
    Originally Posted by Ron Kerr View Post

    It seems I live in the hottest city in the world! For today anyway.

    UN data says that Adelaide, Australia will be the hottest city today (Thursday) with a predicted temperature of 46C which is just under 115 F. This will be the 4th day in a row over 40C (104 F) and tomorrow is predicted to be over 40 as well.

    I look at forecasts for some of the US and can't believe that we can have temperatures that are so far apart. In Adelaide it almost never goes below 0C (32 F) and never snows.

    In the part of the city I live in it was 40.6 C (105 F) at 10am.

    Just thought someone might be interested.
    Adelaide may be hot, but out of all the state capitals in Australia, many consider it to be the nicest of all. A very attractive city!
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I am in Melbourne and we are not much less. I think we hit 44 today and it will be 43 tomorrow...then Saturday drops to 23.
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  • Profile picture of the author henrycalvin
    That's nothing. Ever been to Pakistan. The weather over there is so unpredictable now that 46C is sometimes a normal temperature in some parts of the year.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      I am in Melbourne and we are not much less. I think we hit 44 today and it will be 43 tomorrow...then Saturday drops to 23.
      It's funny but if it was 23 here, as it's winter, it'd be lovely and I'd most likely get the BBQ out. You however, having had that sort of temperature, will be bloody freezing when it gets down to 23! In another thread I said I was in Perth 2 years ago and it was 47 one of the days I was there. On the last day it dropped to 30 and I was genuinely chilly!

      Originally Posted by henrycalvin View Post

      That's nothing. Ever been to Pakistan. The weather over there is so unpredictable now that 46C is sometimes a normal temperature in some parts of the year.
      Hi henry,

      Actually 46 and 46 are exactly the same. I doubt anyone in Pakistan who has the ability to experience feeling through his/her skin, would ever look at 46 degrees and say "That's nothing".
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    I would never go to a country that regards 46 as "normal."
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  • Profile picture of the author Alast
    It's even worse when you don't have an air conditioner.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevin timothy
    What the hell? 105 degrees at 10 AM?

    What's the humidity like there? Is it
    an arrid desert heat, or more like a
    tropical one?

    Here in Tampa Bay, Florida we get some
    humid summers (and even in the Spring).
    Some mornings it's so sweltering you
    don't want to get dressed and go out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Kerr
      Originally Posted by kevin timothy View Post

      What the hell? 105 degrees at 10 AM?

      What's the humidity like there? Is it
      an arrid desert heat, or more like a
      tropical one?

      Here in Tampa Bay, Florida we get some
      humid summers (and even in the Spring).
      Some mornings it's so sweltering you
      don't want to get dressed and go out.
      We are generally quite dry here so humidity is low in this part of the country. I used to live in Darwin at the top end of Australia and that is hot and humid so I know what you mean.
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  • Profile picture of the author unvealscam
    I never knew it as it is too cold here in India.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I grew up in Michigan which is(was?) highly forested and lush. By the time it was 90 I was almost unable to breath it was so humid - like sitting in a sauna. The Idaho/Oregon/Nevada deserts I find quite pleasant at 90 because I like the heat and the air so so dry and easy to breath. Once it hit's 100, though - now that's just too hot. Even the reptiles go for shade when it gets that hot out.

    Ron - I was just reading this:
    Temperature Check:
    Mildura, Australia
    +43 Degrees Celsius
    This is 7 degrees cooler than it was back on January 5, 1906 when Mildura Reached 50C.

    Seems like people who want to fry in the summer should consider Australia the perfect destination!
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Kerr
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      I grew up in Michigan which is(was?) highly forested and lush. By the time it was 90 I was almost unable to breath it was so humid - like sitting in a sauna. The Idaho/Oregon/Nevada deserts I find quite pleasant at 90 because I like the heat and the air so so dry and easy to breath. Once it hit's 100, though - now that's just too hot. Even the reptiles go for shade when it gets that hot out.

      Ron - I was just reading this:
      Temperature Check:
      Mildura, Australia
      +43 Degrees Celsius
      This is 7 degrees cooler than it was back on January 5, 1906 when Mildura Reached 50C.

      Seems like people who want to fry in the summer should consider Australia the perfect destination!
      It is not always heat wave conditions in summer and also depends in which part of the country you live. Australia is very large and has a variety of climates, although none of them could really be called cold in winter compared with the northern hemisphere.

      Also, our states are quite few and large and so can have great variations within them. The state of South Australia is 1.4 times the size of Texas while the state of Western Australia is 3.6 times the size of Texas.

      On Saturday, the forecast for where I live is just 29c (84F) which is OK for the middle of summer. Unfortunately it is still hot now, being 36.9 (98.4) at 9am this Friday morning.
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      • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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        The www now stands for warm weather whingers.

        You think 46c is hot? Piffle! It's so hot where I live it makes the Mojave Desert seem like an ice bath.
        See y'all soon.

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