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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 982939" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>Well ... we just survived another scorcher, the worst of them all I think....unbelievably hot. M-in-law said their thermometer was at the top of the glass - it goes to 50 degs and it was right up there. Many ppl said it was the hottest day they've experienced on their station property - any one with chooks (hens, chickens) had to have them in the house in the aircon or they were dead. I had a sprinkler going for the wild birds and there was even rabbits under it. Joeys were out of the pouch everywhere, just too hot for them. I went down at 6pm to chase wild pigs out of some troughs so the cattle could get a drink before they headed out to graze - about 10kms from the homestead. The air was almost too hot to breathe as I rode along, then I thought there was a heavy smoke haze and realised I was fainting. Luckily I was near a trough and managed to get in it. I rode home in stages, stopping where there was a tree, turning the bike off to let it cool in case it blew up. (The bike was so hot, it was superheating me as well!) Tried to tell hubby (who was busy welding in the shed would you believe!) but, unless I'm dead or injured, he's not interested in a story....It was still 44 degs at 7pm and that's in a leafy green garden with pressurised sprinklers going full bore. Surprisingly, the charolais cattle arent really that affected by it at all. None appear distressed. The humidity has been about 11 percent though - with higher humidity we'd all be dead.</p><p>Son got the new pump set up on the artesian bore at our Winton place and has it pumping continuously until it catches up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 982939, member: 8192"] Well ... we just survived another scorcher, the worst of them all I think....unbelievably hot. M-in-law said their thermometer was at the top of the glass - it goes to 50 degs and it was right up there. Many ppl said it was the hottest day they've experienced on their station property - any one with chooks (hens, chickens) had to have them in the house in the aircon or they were dead. I had a sprinkler going for the wild birds and there was even rabbits under it. Joeys were out of the pouch everywhere, just too hot for them. I went down at 6pm to chase wild pigs out of some troughs so the cattle could get a drink before they headed out to graze - about 10kms from the homestead. The air was almost too hot to breathe as I rode along, then I thought there was a heavy smoke haze and realised I was fainting. Luckily I was near a trough and managed to get in it. I rode home in stages, stopping where there was a tree, turning the bike off to let it cool in case it blew up. (The bike was so hot, it was superheating me as well!) Tried to tell hubby (who was busy welding in the shed would you believe!) but, unless I'm dead or injured, he's not interested in a story....It was still 44 degs at 7pm and that's in a leafy green garden with pressurised sprinklers going full bore. Surprisingly, the charolais cattle arent really that affected by it at all. None appear distressed. The humidity has been about 11 percent though - with higher humidity we'd all be dead. Son got the new pump set up on the artesian bore at our Winton place and has it pumping continuously until it catches up. [/QUOTE]
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