Gee, it noisy here

[Miss Chicken]

We have a thunderstorm going on at the same time as the Children's Fireworks display. They are trying to compete to see which makes the most noise. Sadly I cannot see the firewarks from my house because there is a hill in the way but I might walk to the top of the hill to see the fireworks at midnight. No rain with the storm so far. I wish I walked down to the beach and taken photos of the thunderstorm and the fireworks together. Why do I always miss good photo opportunities.

The temperature here reached 38.3C (about 100F) so the thunderstorm isn't a surprise. It is still over 30C despite the fact that it is almost 10pm.

EDITED TO ADD - The storm has gotten closer and louder, The rain has started and my neighbours are letting off their fireworks. My cats are sitting on the front steps watching all the action.

 

[Jono]

Glad I'm not in Hobart but instead in cool SE QLD.

 

[Roger Wilco]

Oh, it's midnight already in Tasmania?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Oh, it's midnight already in Tasmania?

Not yet.

The Children's Fireworks start at 9.0pm. They are over now. It is about 10.15pm.

This has been Hobart's hottest day in three years and I don't have air conditioning

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

^ eek. Here it's been around 25C most of the day in Newcastle. Now at 10.20pm it's 23C. Been cloudy most of the day.

 

[Miss Chicken]

It has cooled down a bit following the storm. At 10.45pm it was 24.2C.

 

[Australis]

On the NSW Central Coast it's about 22 at 11pm.

Boy, I'll be glad when this year's done.

 

[trekkiedane]

My cats are sitting on the front steps watching all the action.

Cool

Cats that aren't afraid of neither fireworks nor a storm

 

[Miss Chicken]

My cats are sitting on the front steps watching all the action.

Cool

Cats that aren't afraid of neither fireworks nor a storm

They only came in when they started to get wet and even then one of the cats, Georgy, went out the back and watched from under the carport.

Later when the main fireworks started we decided to walk to the park at the bottom of our street. We walked across the park until we got a reasonable view of the fireworks. Georgy followed us the whole way and sat with us right through the fireworks.

 

[Australis]

That is a cool cat.

 

[Marc]

We have a thunderstorm going on at the same time as the Children's Fireworks display. They are trying to compete to see which makes the most noise. Sadly I cannot see the firewarks from my house because there is a hill in the way but I might walk to the top of the hill to see the fireworks at midnight. No rain with the storm so far. I wish I walked down to the beach and taken photos of the thunderstorm and the fireworks together. Why do I always miss good photo opportunities.

The temperature here reached 38.3C (about 100F) so the thunderstorm isn't a surprise. It is still over 30C despite the fact that it is almost 10pm.

EDITED TO ADD - The storm has gotten closer and louder, The rain has started and my neighbours are letting off their fireworks. My cats are sitting on the front steps watching all the action.

38 in Tassie?

Must just about be dropping dead in the streets - though looking at the current temps you've had a massive cool off.

The past could NYE in Adelaide have been real stinkers not sure what it was for 2009->2010.

 

[Miss Chicken]

We had three hot days in a row during the heat wave last January. Over those three day the record for the highest temperature ever in Tasmania was broken five times. Up to then the highest temperature ever recorded was 40.8 in Hobart. The record now stands at 42.2 for Scamander.

Biggest difference between Adelaide and Hobart is that most homes here don't have air conditioning and I imagine that most do in Adelaide.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Heh. It would be strange to have a big Summer thunderstorm on New Year's Eve. Of course, with Global Warming, I may yet see that in my lifetime.