Home To The Sunshine Coast

Melbourne was in for a scorcher the day before New Year's Eve, our last day there. The temperature got to 41 degrees and hardly got below 30 during the night.

During Monday afternoon Kate drove us across to Chris' home near Melbourne Airport where we would spend our last night in Melbourne. The hot weather was a scorcher and Chris is still to get some cooling added to his home. We sought refuge in a local pub for several hours to have an evening meal and get away from the heat.

Trying to get some sleep overnight was almost impossible for us. We were up about 6 am just as the temperature dropped below 30 degrees. To the airport by 7:15 then we were flying home.

The weather on the Sunshine Coast was totally different. Cool, windy and wet! We had about 80 mls (3") of rain over the weekend with squally showers predicted throughout New Year's Day with a top of 25 degrees.

The windy weather is expected to subside over the next few days and more normal summer weather should beginning to return early next week. However heavy rain is expected on Thursday and Friday but this will be coming from a different weather system from the one providing the current strong onshore winds.


These three photos show you how dismal it is around the place at the moment but how some people are making the most of the conditions. However it is cool and overnight temps remain on average, ie the low 20's and getting to sleep is easy!

Rain is at last falling over Brisbane's water catchment areas bringing some relief to the severe water situation the major Queensland city is currently enduring.