We're in for an Australian Summer. What more do you need to know?
Well -given that I was 5 minutes away from being caught up in the Black Saturday fires a few years back ,I would like to know if I am going to experience 49 degrees and 130km/h winds at the same time this year
I am not up with the data but this November would have to be one of the warmest and windiest on record for sure.
This was the fantastic view from my back window a couple of years ago (according to the file dates, Oct 2013, not even Summer yet).
That time we all got texts for an evacuation warning, so my family was going apeshit. It was pretty scary, but with the direction it was approaching from, I think we were safer than it looked.
Back in the bushfires of 2001, the fires burned out the empty lot directly across the road from us. There's a house there now, but it would have been gone if it was built then. Lucky there's an 8ft high concrete wall just behind it, because I could see flames a good 3m high behind it. The worst of it was on Christmas Eve, but the fire across the street was on Christmas fucking morning. The whole house stunk of smoke for a couple of days too.
Summer, amirite?