Down to (about) 31C here at Walkerville. Change came through just before noon, when it plummeted from 37C to about 34C
Nice day for the beach, with hardly any wind, but geez given we are on a narrow peninsula at the very south of Vic with water on four sides if it’s stinking down here it must be good awful inland
"When considering consecutive days 40°C or higher for #Melbourne, this occurs on average 1 in 5 years. Last time, 8-9 Feb 2014 at the old site & 4 in a row 14-17 Jan 2014 at both Olympic Pk & the old site #heatwave Longest spell: 5 in a row 16-20 Jan 1908."
What we are seeing locally is a heap more days above 40C, and broader for Vic a big uptick in days when somewhere see numbers such as 45C (the average used to be about two per decade but since 2000 they’ve come at the rate of about one a year and today makes 2 for 2018).
The runs of consecutive days are obscure stats which I tend to find a bit meaningless if you are looking for trends or patterns. The 40C record sits with 1908, but the 41C, 42C and 43C records (from memory) have all occurred in Melbourne since 2009. They are interesting, but as we’ve seen in Melbourne with this event its a fair bit down to dumb luck whether you sneak over or slip under the threshold.
Btw some just to show how feeble the change is, just back from Venus Bay. It was 32C at the shore car park, 35C behind the dunes and 37C at Tarwin 6km inland.