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Hehehe. Welcome to Oz! I remember when I was living in Sydney (I'm now in Canberra, which has similar extremes) I could leave work in the city at 5:30PM, where the temperature might be 33 degrees in summer, and by the time I reached Blacktown at 6:15PM, the temperature would be up near 40 degrees.
Situation normal...

posted by  Anonymous : 10:58 AM

Hehehe. Welcome to Oz! I remember when I was living in Sydney (I'm now in Canberra, which has similar extremes) I could leave work in the city at 5:30PM, where the temperature might be 33 degrees in summer, and by the time I reached Blacktown at 6:15PM, the temperature would be up near 40 degrees.
Situation normal...

posted by  Anonymous : 10:58 AM

>> I can't get my head around that...

can I help with the "why"?

Sydney is sometimes wedged between the onshore winds blowing off the ocean and the Blue Mountains (Katoomba, et al). the sea winds push hot air over Paramatta, Liverpool, Emu Plains, hits the mountains and goes up, cycles back east to the sea where it's pushed across Sydney again to heat up even more. The smog gets trapped into this cycle also (breathing yesterdays car fumes).

the drop in temp probably happened with a change in direction in the wind. 4 - 6 pm sounds right for a wind change.

mate, come to Queensland where it maybe a bit warm but it's also beautiful. I did...

posted by  Anonymous : 11:42 AM

Bloody winging pom...

Andrew Muller
http://www.rocketboots.com.au

posted by  Anonymous : 12:04 PM

Cheers Muller, knew I could count on you ;)

posted by  Jonathan : 2:42 PM

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