40.7C in the shade YIKES..
68AutoBug - December 1st, 2012 at 02:16 PM
40.7C now in Scone [in the shade]
about 150C in the Sun.. lol
too hot for air cooled beetle driving.. lol
window Up or down.. Roof on or Off.. its still 40.7C
Wife's cars Outside temp showed 43C a coiple of days ago..
but the bitumen is very nearly melted.. lol
LEE
bugmaniaar - December 1st, 2012 at 03:52 PM
Man
thats enough to melt the jam on your scone.
Smiley - December 1st, 2012 at 05:12 PM
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40.7C now in Scone [in the shade]
about 150C in the Sun.. lol
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Wow. No need to boil the kettle then. Just sit your coffee in the sun for a few minutes.
The only other place that I know that gets that hot is the surface of Mercury
Smiley 
h - December 1st, 2012 at 05:27 PM
22degc here with the air con on
OZ Towdster - December 1st, 2012 at 05:59 PM
Lee , best you keep that beetle locked in the shed then as we would all hate for that techno coloured engine bay to burn , lol
vlad01 - December 1st, 2012 at 10:24 PM
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40.7C now in Scone [in the shade]
about 150C in the Sun.. lol
too hot for air cooled beetle driving.. lol
window Up or down.. Roof on or Off.. its still 40.7C
Wife's cars Outside temp showed 43C a coiple of days ago..
but the bitumen is very nearly melted.. lol
LEE
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reminds me of back in highschool days, think 02 or 03? the road near the local safeway is well a truly and literally smoking and the tar was liquid.
never seen anything like it before.
as for lately yeah it was 40 (39.7, close enough) in melbourne the other day, lucky I didn't have to drive that day, it would of been a trip from
keilor to kilsyth, that includes the one lane bit past the zoo to get from the tulla to eastern freeway connecting the 2 halves of Melbourne
effectively. That alone take 20 min to get through at best with 50 gazillion clutch/brake cycles. For a car with no ac thats hell !
many many cars were broken down that day on the way home, I saw 7 or more vehicles overheated at the side on the calder and thats 110km/h road so its
not like there is no air flow. its the most I ever seen broken down on one road in my life actually.
Oh I just remembered a day in bendigo back in 09, it was so hot, I think about 45 or so.
My mate and I was going to the coles in the center of town in his vr and we thought it was starting to rain as there was droplets appearing and
disappearing on the windscreen but as we went in to undercover parking and saw it still raining a 2nd look we saw the actual laminate inside the
glass boiling, little bubbles forming and collapsing inside the glass which looked like rain was falling on the glass. 
yeah has been some memorable hot days in the last 10 years.
MickH - December 1st, 2012 at 10:28 PM
LOL....toughen up princess!!! No humidity makes those temps a bit more bareable
bajachris88 - December 1st, 2012 at 11:29 PM
Time to pull out a swamp cooler Lee
nils - December 2nd, 2012 at 07:09 AM
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Lee , best you keep that beetle locked in the shed then as we would all hate for that techno coloured engine bay to burn , lol
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best you baja it and go to the beach!!!!
h - December 2nd, 2012 at 07:17 AM
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Lee , best you keep that beetle locked in the shed then as we would all hate for that techno coloured engine bay to burn , lol
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best you baja it and go to the beach!!!!
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make sure you wear your dark sunnies lee as the rainbow of colours will blind you when you check the oil outside
AA003 - December 2nd, 2012 at 01:47 PM
[size=4]YIKES! GLOBAL WARMING![/size]
We now need to pay more carbon tax.
That'll fix it!
BRUTUS - December 2nd, 2012 at 07:46 PM
Vlad, you've made me remember those good old school days too, when the tar was soft in the quad, & on the roads, and the concrete burned my bare
feet. 58-59. 62-64. 67-69. 71-73? 115 in Jeparit. 110-112 in the shade... What do all these big numbers mean!?
matberry - December 2nd, 2012 at 07:53 PM
Oh Brutus,,, you are ancient aren't you, Vlad was in school in 03.....
BRUTUS - December 2nd, 2012 at 08:01 PM
Well some of those numbers are ficticious, so there!
Anyway, there were regular summer heatwaves in Vic. in the 50's, and particularly 60's. 112F was not unusual, more in N of state.
Long droughts, and bushfire weather, in early and late 60's.
[All our old VW's from the 50's and 60's have survived many things!]
vlad01 - December 2nd, 2012 at 09:33 PM
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Oh Brutus,,, you are ancient aren't you, Vlad was in school in 03.....
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yes, me no old fart like you Matbery
matberry - December 2nd, 2012 at 09:59 PM
I'm somewhere in between 'so there' and
vlad01 - December 2nd, 2012 at 10:25 PM
you must be, since you are the first on this forum to figure out how to copy my smiley lol
helbus - December 2nd, 2012 at 10:44 PM
We had bubbles on the tar roads in summer when I was a boy.
h - December 3rd, 2012 at 05:47 AM
oh carbon tax made the sky fall and the world end and everyone has no job and global warming is not here its
BS works for some of the gullible
YIKES indeed
apparently you Mexicans are sending your heat up our way with a 40°c odd day for tomorrow.. you could of at least be sending beer or something
but then again the best rum is here and the best beer, sooo on second thoughts you can keep your 'green death' there
vlad01 - December 3rd, 2012 at 10:34 AM
global warming is no joke h. If you think its just bs then thats just being plain ignorant.
Another 50-100 years its going to be hell living on this planet.
I look forward to that 
h - December 3rd, 2012 at 12:25 PM
^ I agree mate
it's about time big pollutters paid to pump externalities into the atmosphere
this will drive innovation to reduce the pollutants released
more wind n solar plants at least until they perfect and contain nuclear fusion
that will be a great day as energy will be abundant for all
HappyDaze - December 3rd, 2012 at 02:18 PM
40.7c in the shade. Better get out of the shade.
With a bit of luck the next ice age will kick in.....before it gets really hot.
This planet has a way of making life interesting, and has been doing so for millions of years.
vlad01 - December 3rd, 2012 at 02:53 PM
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^ I agree mate
it's about time big pollutters paid to pump externalities into the atmosphere
this will drive innovation to reduce the pollutants released
more wind n solar plants at least until they perfect and contain nuclear fusion
that will be a great day as energy will be abundant for all
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just plug an extension cord into the suns core, free fusion power for all
what we need is solar thats as close as possible to 100% efficient. at the moment we stand at 20% on average efficiency for commercial available
panels. That suxs balls! the internal combustion engine if more efficient than that.
say if we could refine a solar panel to convert lets say 90% of light to electricity then we are laughing coz thats nearly 1Kw per m2. how many m2 on
a north facing roof? s#it loads!
yes fusion would be good, but why not tap into our natural fusion generator, our star the sun.
h - December 3rd, 2012 at 09:12 PM
I'm on with the solar
plenty of kw produced here 