eather report

Another heat wave has arrived on our doorstep. After three days of reasonable temperatures, the thermometer has suddenly taken a leap upwards and we have endured three consecutive days of above forty degrees Celsius.

Combined with low humidity and overnight temperatures, where yesterday’s temperature at 3 am was 29C and last night’s low was just a shade under 26C, sleep has been elusive. There has been much tossing and turning, the fan has been whirring away through the night and applications of a small damp towel have been pursued in the vain hope of cooling things down enough to grab a few minutes real sleep.

Today’s temperature was the last gasp; 45.1C. Tomorrow doesn’t bear thinking about and I mentally run through a list of places where it might be possible to get some respite; a movie theatre, the National Gallery and the State Library are three cool places – in the real sense of the word - that spring readily to mind.

I read about the Chill on Ice Bar in the city where 30 tonnes of ice make up the walls, chairs and sculptures of a drinking hole and where the customers are limited to 20 minutes at a time. Any problem with damp clothes as a result of sitting on iced chairs would be solved in less than a minute outside in the sun today.

Quite frankly, I’m totally over this hot weather.