We had a bright sunny day yesterday, then a thick, dark cloud bank moved in just on dusk and created some really cool effects with the setting sun.
One was a single beam of sunlight breaking through the cloud bank.

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The other was sunlight through a number of "holes" in the clouds

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I thought it was a cool effect.
			 
			
			
				I think it's cool too Bricktop.
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				Quote from: "Bricktop"
One was a single beam of sunlight breaking through the cloud bank.

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The other was sunlight through a number of "holes" in the clouds

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I thought it was a cool effect.
beautiful
			 
			
			
				Quote from: "Bricktop"
One was a single beam of sunlight breaking through the cloud bank.

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The other was sunlight through a number of "holes" in the clouds

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I thought it was a cool effect.
The second one looks like the creator himself was about to address the sinners of South Australia.
			 
			
			
				Ah, he does it all the time.
We're over it. 
Nag...nag...nag..."change your evil ways...you will go to hell...if you behave it will be free M&M's for everybody...even PEANUT M&M's".
			
			
			
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The second one looks like the creator himself was about to address the sinners of South Australia.
I think it looks like an alien aircraft.
			 
			
			
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The second one looks like the creator himself was about to address the sinners of South Australia.
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				Quote from: "Bricktop"
We're over it. 
Nag...nag...nag..."change your evil ways...you will go to hell...if you behave it will be free M&M's for everybody...even PEANUT M&M's".
it doesn't take much to bribe the people of Adelaide.
			 
			
			
				I've had it with 'fun with sunlight' here in Van.  It's been damn near 35 all week, and this will continue into next week.
I'm fucking cooking in my cab at work, and can feel my really white skin burning.  It burns me out physically and mentally.
Some people hate the rain.  I like it!
			
			
			
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We're over it. 
Nag...nag...nag..."change your evil ways...you will go to hell...if you behave it will be free M&M's for everybody...even PEANUT M&M's".
it doesn't take much to bribe the people of Adelaide.
WTF??
Can't you read?
PEANUT M&M's.
 
			
			
				The sun has bronzed my skin.
			
			
			
				You mean you've stopped glowing in the dark.
			
			
			
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I'm fucking cooking in my cab at work, and can feel my really white skin burning.  It burns me out physically and mentally.
Some people hate the rain.  I like it!
That would be very uncomfortable in Vancouver..
Medicine Hat sometimes gets thirty five degrees, but there's little humidity there.
			 
			
			
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Quote from: "Chuck Bronson"
I'm fucking cooking in my cab at work, and can feel my really white skin burning.  It burns me out physically and mentally.
Some people hate the rain.  I like it!
That would be very uncomfortable in Vancouver..
Medicine Hat sometimes gets thirty five degrees, but there's little humidity there.
Most of our summer here is low humidity mid 30's. It's like a cool bath compared to the 40's which can happen for days or in some cases weeks depending on where you are. Where I go fishing every year is on the NSW and Victoria border and it's never below 40 degrees by 10 am.
			 
			
			
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Oh?
Where is this locale of consistent scorching heat?
			 
			
			
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I'm fucking cooking in my cab at work, and can feel my really white skin burning.  It burns me out physically and mentally.
Some people hate the rain.  I like it!
That would be very uncomfortable in Vancouver..
Medicine Hat sometimes gets thirty five degrees, but there's little humidity there.
Most of our summer here is low humidity mid 30's. It's like a cool bath compared to the 40's which can happen for days or in some cases weeks depending on where you are. Where I go fishing every year is on the NSW and Victoria border and it's never below 40 degrees by 10 am.
That would be very uncomfortable..
Taiwan gets very humid in their long summer months too.
			 
			
			
				*sigh*....
There is no place on the Victorian/NSW border that is 40C plus at 10.00am every day, even in summer. 
Forget the Claims - What are the Facts?
'According to the Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia' (whom presumably sourced the Australian Bureau of Meteorology) the 10 hottest places by maximum mean temperature in Australia are -
    Wyndham, W.A. - 35.6°C.
    Marble Bar, W.A. - 35.3°C.
    Warmun(Turkey Creek), W.A. - 35.0°C.
    Kununurra, W.A. - 35.0°C.
    Timber Creek, N.T. - 34.9°C.
    Elliot, N.T. - 34.5°C.
    Derby, W.A. - 34.4°C.
    Looma, W.A. - 34.4°C.
    Borraloola, N.T. - 34.4°C.
    Kalumburu, W.A. - 34.3°C.
Note there is nowhere in Victoria or New South Wales.
As to the HIGHEST temperature
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) lists the highest official highest temperature recorded, state by state, as -
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    Mardie, Western Australia - 50.5°C, 19 February 1998
    Menindee, New South Wales - 49.7°C, 10 January 1939
    Birdsville, Queensland - 49.5°C, 24 December 1972
    Hopetoun, Victoria - 48.8°C, 7 February 2009
    Finke, Northern Territory - 48.3°C, 1 & 2 January 1960
    Scamander, Tasmania - 42.2°C, 30 January 2009
Hopetoun is in the vicinity of where Fraud allegedly goes fishing (other than the internet).
"During the early 2009 Australian heatwave, the town experienced several days of intense heat, with a peak of 48.8 °C (119.8 °F). The reading was the highest temperature nationwide during the event and also broke the record for highest temperature in Victoria.[4]"
			
			
			
				My goodness, look at those hot temperatures.
			
			
			
				And Aaron exposed yet again for talking nonsense...
			
			
			
				You must bear in mind that heat without humidity is very different to heat with humidity. 
35C in a dry climate is comparable to 25C in moister climes. Whilst direct sunlight is quite hot, you don't perspire and feel as hot as when there is moisture in the air, and that moisture feels oppressive and uncomfortable.
			
			
			
				I'm gonna look like a blonde haired beaner if this weather keeps up all summer.
			
			
			
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Meh, whatever. Nobody believes a word he posts anyway.
			 
			
			
				HE does!!!
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Quote from: "Bricktop"
Meh, whatever. Nobody believes a word he posts anyway.
He knows that, but it's part of his troll.
			 
			
			
				Look at Bricktop blow his wad. 
For 5 years I've been fishing Mulwala Yarrawonga late January and have never seen a day without 40's temps despite what he and the BOM Bureau of Meteorology write. That's the same BOM caught multiple times turning off weather stations and downgrading record heat and cold waves for climate consensus. 
Bricktop needs to stfu. He's out of his tree.
			
			
			
				Ah...so YOU'RE right, and BOM is wrong.

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				The BOM is often wrong.
			
			
			
				And you're always right?

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				If I have experienced something thus know it to be true, I am right about it.
			
			
			
				Ah...so when you go fishing, you carry a thermometer?
			
			
			
				Of course
			
			
			
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I do when we go camping, my phone.
			 
			
			
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Quote from: "Bricktop"
I do when we go camping, my phone.
I carry a digital thermometer with me when fishing for air and water temps. Fish are funny about biting depending on a number of things. Temp included.
			 
			
			
				And then the fish you catch are sooooo big it takes both of you to hold it.
			
			
			
				Actually no. I have to throw most of the Murray cod I catch back because they're between 8 to 3 centimetres to small or occasionally because they're larger than the max limit. Not often though. The big ones stick to the channels and can be very wary.
			
			
			
				Is this your Murray Cod?

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				Carp? You kill those. It's bad form to throw em back. 
But keep em away from your fishing spot or it's snake city an hour later.