Rubbish you say.........Darwin is a hot place! It is, but all the southern cities are in what has been described as the heat of the century, with many places recording temperatures above 45C, Adelaide a maximum the other day of 45.7C, the same in Melbourne today, and still more days to come of very hot weather. Most of this week has been very hot, with temperatures on every day above 40C, across all of southern Australia. Even Hobart in cool Tasmania has had hot weather. This period has broken high temperature records going back about a hundred years or so.
Darwin has had relatively cool and mild days of around 29 -30C with monsoonal showers, and occasional sunny periods, with a modest west to north west strong breeze........typical monsoonal weather, and nights around 23-24C. Nights have been the killer in southern cities this week with minimum temperatures in some places of 33C......that is a hot night, and usually breeze less.
The hot weather in the south has caused havoc with electricity supplies [and of course air conditioners], train lines have buckled, asphalt on the road is melting, and those poor people cannot cope.
Poor things.........come to the tropics and see how you like the build up period in October and November. Wimps!
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I took out my atlas to get a better perspective on location. Weather seems so different all over the world. My friend wrote a book, "Global Warming is Good for Business," which is going to be published in March.
What is Rum Jungle like? The name intrigued me.
Rum Jungle - was the location of Australia's first uranium mine. About 100km S of Darwin. Currently a big hole full of water! Probably was a lot of rum drunk there though!
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