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Oops. Heat wave of the decade?

Sorry Livinia, the heat wave is set to be the worst in a Century, not a Decade.

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imageLovely Nine News weather presenter Livinia Nixon underestimated the magnitude of Melbourne’s punishing heat wave last night, when she said it was about to become the heat wave of the Decade.

In the next sentence she said the 4 days over 40 had only been beaten by 5 days back in 1908.

That would make it a Century, not a Decade.

Fingers crossed we fall short, but it looks unlikely.

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  2. Bullswool, oh dear, another one who didn’t get it when Ita said it? Too young to know Farenheit, Shillings, Gallons and Ounces.
    @Shoudy Chen – And the “Hottest on record was 1908” is also wrong. Hottest was 7/2/2009.
    From the Townsville Bulletin of 22/1/1908 – “The heat wave continued In Melbourne yesterday, the temperature in the shade was 107.C deg.”
    If it was 107C (given the boiling point of water is 100C) I think Melbournites would be in dire trouble.
    I expect they meant 41.7C (or 107F).

  3. Yeah we used to get quite a few 100 Fahrenheit days in a row going back, which of course is around 37 Celsius. Always remember having to conserve electricity and water as there was a rolling turn-off of odd numbers off one day, even numbers the next (and we didn’t really have air conditioners then).

    Must have happened a lot in February though, as I remember we used to go to school with bad sunburn (blisters and all). In a way it got to a point of competing to see who could get get burnt worse, this was High School times in the 70’s (like 1972, 73, 74, 75 era), oh in hindsight if a few of us had of known how bad sunburn could be.

  6. Obviously I can see that Adelaide and Melbourne had heatwaves when the temperature hit 44 degrees. The last time melbourne has had the hottest day was back on the 7th February 2009 when Melbourne hit 46.4 degrees.

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