When we moved to Australia a couple of years ago I knew, that life will be different. But hey, it is quite different in summer, when it gets hot. We are not there yet. It is still nice and warm / or nicely hot. But we might get to it again sometime this summer.
I found this on a website which is called Meanwhile in Australia and I took the liberty to add my comments. It might give you a slight idea about what we might be up for over the next couple of months…
You know it’s hot in Australia when:
1) The best parking spot is determined by shade and not by distance… (usually they are FAR away…)
2) Hot water comes out of both taps (yep, been there…)…
3) You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron (one of the things you only experience once, then you just know…)
4) The temperature drops below 32C and you feel chilly (something I would have never thought is possible, but believe me it actually happens…)
5) You discover that in January and February it only takes two fingers to steer a car… (you just don’t want to risk burning the others too…)
6) You discover that you can actually get sunburned through your windscreen… (maybe it’s just cooking…)
7) You develop a fear of metal door handles… (or metal equipment on playgrounds… wonder who was the genius who decided to actually use metal material or black stuff on playgrounds in Australia…)
8) You break a sweat the instance you step outside before 7am on certain days (it actually feels like walking into a hairdryer…)
9) Your biggest bicycle accident fear is “What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the road and getting cooked?”… (relax, someone will run you over before you get cooked…)
10) You realize asphalt has a liquid state… (Yes! It gets so hot, it melts…)
11) Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to prevent them from laying hard boiled eggs (Not sure if I would do that… breakfast ready made wouldn’t be such a bad thing…)
12) The trees are whistling for dogs (…)
13) While walking back barefoot to your car from any event, you do a tightrope act on the white lines in the car park (I am still waiting for the day the heat actually prevents people to walk around barefoot everywhere…)
14) You catch a cold from having the aircon on full blast all night long (Been there…)
15) You learn that Westfield Shopping Center’s aren’t just Shopping Center’s, they are temples to worship Air-Conditioning (if they actually turn the aircon on…)
16) Sticking your head in the freezer and taking deep breaths is considered normal (It took me ages until I mentioned it to a new found Aussie friend and was surprised that she was not surprised…)
17) A cup full of ice is considered a great snack (better than ice cream… it does not melt as fast… or it does not make such a mess when it melts…)
18) A black out is life threatening because your aircon and your fans no longer work (as long as you remember your car in the car park and you make sure it has enough gas you can always escape to the car…)
19) No one cares if you walk around with no shoes on (I do! I do! Do what you want at home but please put on shoes when you go to the supermarket…)
20) You keep anything in the fridge, including potatoes, bread and clothing (yep…)
21) People have enough left over beer cans to make a boat and compete in a regatta… (I did not know that but I am pretty sure they do…)
22) The effort of toweling yourself off after a shower means you need another shower right away… (who needs a towel if the water drops just evaporate in no time?)
23) You will wait patiently until the day it starts raining to go on a run (or you call it a bikram run…)
24) You worry your ceiling fan is spinning so fast it will fly off and kill you (maybe your house just lifts off and brings you to a cooler place… like Antarctica or so… it is just around the corner…)
Love the trees whistling for dogs!
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Hehehe, me too!
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It sounds like the southwest in this country during the summer! We don`t get trees whistling for dogs though!
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I’ve never heard any of them whistle for dogs, but who knows 😉
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funny 🙂
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I thought so too…
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Very “cool” insights!!! You know what? We had -10 °C this morning! Enjoy the heat!
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Ah, we have typical weather for our region. From 35 down to 16 in no time. No beach weather today…
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The lowest temperatures are 16? Oh well, simply enjoy it… 😉
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Oh no no! Just now. In summer it can also go down to 10. In winter we go down to for but with the wind hitting us straight from Antarctica it feels much colder…
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That’s a lot cooler than I thought. But I think it depends on what part of Australia. So you are living in the south, don’t you?
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Exactly. It is hotter further North and West…
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And I will enjoy it 😉
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OK, now I’m not so sure I want to come to Australia! 😉 What time of year is it cooler? Also, FYI, I just emailed you.
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Cool 🙂 Well, February is usually the hottest months down south. Everything else is pretty nice. And, you know, it is not always as crazy hot. It does stop. We had a heatwave last year and most of the stuff in this post I experienced during that heatwave (there was another one in 2008). The heatwave lasted 4 days. So it is not as bad. Afterwards the temperature dropped to low 20C…And you kind of know it will. You should still consider visiting 😉
I will check my emails 😉
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Lol. I’m just teasing you. I would still LOVE to visit.
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Good 😉
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Please check your email 🙂
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Reminds me of India during September … 🙂
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I’ve never been to India… Did you like it?
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YES!!! 🙂
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When the hens lay boiled eggs, you know it’s too hot. 😉
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Hehe, I know ;-). But then you might get grilled chicken as well…
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Hee hee- well said! For me, it really feels like summer in Australia when I burn the soles of my feet on the baking cement while trying to grab a few things off the clothesline! 🙂
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Ha! Yes!!!
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It sounds like India in June 😛 and ‘No one cares if you walk around with no shoes on’..this bit reminds me of cool tile floors of a typical Indian temple and people queuing up just to experience that!!
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Haha…
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Love the oven mitts! I can certainly relate to some on the list.
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There are definitely things I’ve been through too 😉
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love the humor.
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Yeah, I guess that’s how you can handle it 😉
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Funny stuff! Most of these are applicable to Texas too!
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Not so different, hey 😉
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Nope. Not so much. 😊
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This made me laugh out loud, especially the chickens laying hard boiled eggs. Despite everything written about the unbearable heat, I still want to visit Australia before I die.
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It is worth a visit!
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This one makes me smirks as it reminds me of home in Southern California in the summer. Our neighbors who come down from Canada every now and then once told us of a summer that it was so hot (maybe 126 degrees Fahrenheit) that the tires on their rental car began melting at the stop light! It’s funny every time I go back to SLC when I’ve been home with the family all summer. Everyone up in SLC looks at me funny when I breath a sigh of relief like, “Woo thank goodness it’s only 100!” 😉
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Hahaha! I know what you are talking about!!!
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The ceiling fan fear is universal, I think. Mine does that every summer!
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Haha!
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I love Australia and the warm and moist environment of the Top End, not so much the southern parts but at least in Summer they get warm too. I hope you put stockings on your ceiling fan blades to keep them clean.
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Hehe… Ah, down here it cools down the moment you got either used to the heat or organized to deal with it 😉
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Never been to Oz, but this makes me want to even more! Perhaps during the Southern Winter though…
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I’m sure you’d like it 🙂
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