How to beat the heatwave
Move to the coast !
The heatwave is making a 'seachange' look even more attractive. It's 10 degrees cooler at Lakes Entrance!
It might be stating the obvious, but Victoria’s current heatwave makes you wonder why we don’t all just move over to the coast. We’ve had a very hot (and dry) January already, but this is the 7 day forecast (from hell) for Bright:
Today: 44° Saturday: 44° Sunday: 42° Monday: 39° Tuesday: 39° Wednesday: 42° Thursday: 42°
There’s just no relief in sight. Meanwhile over at Lakes Entrance (our nearest beach, about 250 kms away) the forecast is, er, somewhat different:
Today: 34° Saturday: 31° Sunday: 24° Monday 28° Tuesday: 26° Wednesday: 27° Thursday: 27°
And that’s not a ‘one-off’ occurrence either, it’s always cooler over there, except in winter … when it’s always warmer! So where’s the downside of shifting to the better climate? Right now there doesn’t seem to be one, but maybe I’m just affected by the heat.
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It’s a toss up whether you can survive a few days of very hot weather or put up with blue-green algae, mosquitoes and rising sea levels.
We had planned to retire to a water front block we bought (& later sold) on Raymond Island (off Paynesville). Instead, we settled for 14 acres at Rosewhite.
Why? For starters, the mosquitoes there are ferocious and exist year-round. There was a flood last year which inundated our block, and right now you wouldn’t want to swim in the lakes let alone drink the water. The fishing is pretty crap too.
I’ll settle for the beautiful ‘High Country’ thanks!
Ray why don’t you drive up to Mt Hotham where it was a pleasant 23 degrees yesterday?
Yeah, I know about those downsides, Noel, but they mainly apply to the lower levels around there. I guess the best situation is to have a place here AND a place by the coast – which would mean two ‘humpies’ instead of one half-decent place!
Wah, I’ve done that on occassions but (a) there’s nothing to do up there and (b) the flies are hell – especially at Dinner Plain. We’re quiet right now so I think I’ll be spending a bit of time in the pool, but I’d rather be getting on with work before the next busy period.
The one thing that only the high country offers is cool nights when the cool breeze falls down the valleys once the sun goes over the hill. It is a daily occurrence in Whitfield
We are most fortunate that our back door faces south and catches the cool breeze and when we open the front doot to the north, the breeze flows right through the house giving us pleasant sleeping conditions.
As a refuge from the city, I still remember those nights that stayed over 30 C.
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You can’t beat our summer nights, Greg, you’re spot on about that. It doesn’t seem to matter how hot it gets during the day, after sundown it’s absolutely perfect.
Lakes Entrance is a dump. It’s worth the extra 10 degrees to be away from that dump.
I know what you’re saying, Orville. The shopping centre is fragmented and down at heel. It’s not exactly St Tropez and the place could do with a real tidy up. Beautiful setting though.
the CSIRO predicts that Lakes entrance will be under the sea due to climate change in the not too distant future.
It regularly goes ‘under the sea’ already. The main shopping strip & surrounds is subject to flooding whenever there’s a lot of rain upstream combined with a king tide. It happened only a year or so ago.
It might be good for the town if they relocated the CBD to higher ground. As Orville said, it’s a bit of a ‘dump’.
Build a hobbit hole. Live underground.
Problem solved!