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Jan. 30th, 2009 03:33 pmIn an outbreak of unexpected sanity yesterday netball was cancelled a full half hour before it was due to start. I think they might have checked the fine print on their insurance and realised that they were likely to be held liable if any of us collapsed from heat exhaustion. I was so happy I did a little dance in the middle of the street. Seriously though, it was way too hot to play. The competition where I play Mondays also appeared to have cancelled their scheduled games when I went past it at 7pm.
I have no idea how the Australian Open players keep going when the court temperature hits 52oC - I felt like I was pushing into a wall when it was only 43.6oC. I wish they'd just bite the bullet and shut the roof earlier, it's ridiculous making people play under those conditions.
The netball team had drinks at a pub to farewell one of our players who is currently in the process of driving to Adelaide where he's about to start a new job. All of us questioned the sanity of this, given that Adelaide has weather like this a lot, and none of us were coping that well with it. ;-)
During the 90 minutes I was at the pub the weather was very bizarre. It was stinking hot when I left work (43.7oC), which then had then dropped to hot (34oC) by the time I hit the pub. It stayed like that for a bit, holding out the promise of change with a few sea breezes, before becoming very muggy ("feels like Darwin" said the player who lived there for two years. "Yep" agreed the entire table) for about half an hour and then reverting to dry heat again when the wind sprang back up from the north. Very weird. But at least it was cool enough to sit outside - and it's the perfect weather for a cold beer or two.
Now of course we're all hanging for the "cool change" to hit Melbourne and drop the temperature from 43.6oC to the mid-30oCs. Hopefully without the muggy bit this time. I can do dry heat no problems, but humidity is likely to kill me.
In other weather-related news, the heat caused my experiment to fail. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I have no idea how the Australian Open players keep going when the court temperature hits 52oC - I felt like I was pushing into a wall when it was only 43.6oC. I wish they'd just bite the bullet and shut the roof earlier, it's ridiculous making people play under those conditions.
The netball team had drinks at a pub to farewell one of our players who is currently in the process of driving to Adelaide where he's about to start a new job. All of us questioned the sanity of this, given that Adelaide has weather like this a lot, and none of us were coping that well with it. ;-)
During the 90 minutes I was at the pub the weather was very bizarre. It was stinking hot when I left work (43.7oC), which then had then dropped to hot (34oC) by the time I hit the pub. It stayed like that for a bit, holding out the promise of change with a few sea breezes, before becoming very muggy ("feels like Darwin" said the player who lived there for two years. "Yep" agreed the entire table) for about half an hour and then reverting to dry heat again when the wind sprang back up from the north. Very weird. But at least it was cool enough to sit outside - and it's the perfect weather for a cold beer or two.
Now of course we're all hanging for the "cool change" to hit Melbourne and drop the temperature from 43.6oC to the mid-30oCs. Hopefully without the muggy bit this time. I can do dry heat no problems, but humidity is likely to kill me.
In other weather-related news, the heat caused my experiment to fail. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
