No photos from me today!! I know!! Shocking!
We put Megumi on a plane this morning and she is spending the week with Rachel in Ballarat. She should have a lovely time and I am very ready for a break.
Sloth week coming right up!
Anyway… for those of you not in Australia: summer has been brutal around the country. Severe drought, one of our MAJOR rivers (The Darling) just about dried up due to mismanagement/irrigation etc. (Well… they are still arguing whose fault it is and why and blah blah)
Temperatures have been record level… days on end of 40 plus degrees (103F) I think Adelaide reached about 47 the other day!! (over 116F)
North of the country is currently suffering insane severe flooding!!!
Oh, and Tasmania is on fire! 🙁
Today our area was under a reasonably heavy blanket of smoke from a 350ha fire west of us.
Further south of that fire, there is another 8,000 ha burning.
East of the Cradle Mt National Park there is at least 50,000 ha on fire.
South west there is another 30,000 ha burning, and around Hobart there’s about 60,000 ha still burning!
(ha-hectares. Not sure what unit of measurement people use around the world but if you think better in acres, times the number by about 2.5)
Anyway, its a shocker right now!
Bedtime for me!
Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!
Cheers
Hope all is much better there soon!! Fires and floods are so terrible. Glad your getting a break from VISITORS. Enjoy the moment. Your compost bin looks great also all the garden. REST up now!! Stay cool while we try to stay warm!! Love from Georgia
Hi Linda!! Thanks so much! We still have too many fires down here 🙁
Its been a nice few days so far of time to myself and I am lapping it up!
Hope all the flu has eased off in your household! Stay warm!!
The weather is crazy this year. Here in Michigan we just had temperatures colder than Antarctica! Stay safe. I hope they can get the fires out before long and the temperatures cool soon.
Oh Pam!! That is madly cold!! Sounds so extreme!! Today we cooled off a bit here but the winds are up. Hoping for rain in the fire stricken areas! Stay warm!!
It seems as though climate change is affecting most continents. We had horrendous wild fires the past two summers here in BC Canada. Hope we get a break this year. Our winter has been mild- til now! We have an arctic front and temps down to -10c here on the south coast which is cold for us. The interior and north of the province are experiencing-25-40c. Really chilly! Nothing compared to the east coast lately! It’s been brutal back there! Europe’s the same in various countries. Guess we all have to adjust to the new (ab)normal!
Those fires were terrible. And now it seems like you are super cold!! Thats not a temperature I can easily imagine! I don’t think I would ever leave the house!!
It seems to have been brutal at all ends of the scale!! Stay warm!!