Mobile Sauna.

At the moment Queensland is a mobile sauna. The temperatures have been off the scale, and today nine places in our area broke temperature records. Here, where this house sit is was supposed to get to about 42 degrees, but we only hit 38.7 or so. Even so, it was in and out of the pool all day for us.

This house sit has a lovely pool. Many homes in this area have pools in their back yards.

 

As I write this, at just before 9 pm it is still around 30 degrees. There is quite a strong wind too. Normally the wind dies down around sundown, but today it is still blowing. It is a hot wind though, not cooling at all.

We have also been keeping an eye on little Jade, the dog. She  has been pretty hot, but was not keen on getting into some water we provided.

Quoting from Yahoo  news.....

"Brisbane has been spared the full wrath of the Queensland heatwave, with temperatures today peaking just below the predicted high of 41 degrees Celsius.

The mercury reached a top of 38.7C just after 1:00pm, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Pradeep Singh said, a mark just shy of the expected peak and several degrees below the January record of 43.2C.

Cooler sea breezes worked against the hot westerlies blowing in the from the interior, Mr Singh said, keeping the temperature down.

The maximum temperature in Queensland was felt in Lochington, just outside of Emerald, where temperatures hit 45.7C.

 Other areas, including Roma, Gatton and Winton, pushed well beyond the 40C mark.

Queensland's interior has been sweltering through record-breaking heat in recent days, along with parts of Central Australia and north-western New South Wales.

 The heatwave continued as a Bureau of Meteorology report revealed on Friday that  2013 was the hottest year on record in Australia."