{"id":196,"date":"2006-01-26T19:40:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/26\/summer_in_melbo_1\/"},"modified":"2006-01-26T19:40:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T19:40:53","slug":"summer_in_melbo_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ThunderstormAtMordialloc480.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chriscurnow.com\/Photos\/archives\/Photos\/Mordialloc\/ThunderstormAtMordialloc480.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been a hot day in Melbourne. And, as often happens here in summer, the day ended with a thunderstorm. This is a picture I took about an hour ago from the beach at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.monash.edu.au\/ncas\/multimedia\/gazetteer\/list\/mordialloc.html\">Mordialloc<\/a><br \/>\nThere are major <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dse.vic.gov.au\/dse\/nrenfoe.nsf\/childdocs\/-D79E4FB0C437E1B6CA256DA60008B9EF-358FFCDA5CA1F43FCA256DA6000942C9?open\">bushfires<\/a> around the state and the firefighters are sweating on a wind change and some rain. It looks like the relief will be short though. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/cgi-bin\/wrap_fwo.pl?IDV10450.txt\">weather bureau<\/a> is predicting that it will be warm to hot through until next Tuesday. The only relief is that there will be some rain each day during this period.<br \/>\nThe fires started last Sunday when it was over 40 in Melbourne and have been continuing ever since.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/melbourne\/\">ABC local radio<\/a> has had extensive coverage of the bushfire situation. Normally the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/\">Cricket<\/a> takes precedence over everything else on ABC radio in summer, but the bushfires are so serious, that we are now only getting updates in breaks of the fire coverage.<br \/>\nIt was really hot last Sunday. Judy and I went to the moves to escape the heat for a couple of hours. The famous <as href=\"http:\/\/melbourne.metblogs.com\/archives\/027405.phtml\">Melbourne  cool change<\/a> came through early in the evening so we opened all the windows to let the house cool down. In the morning, when I got to my computer, there was ash on the keyboard. IT wasn&#8217;t black but it was very noticeable.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s cooled down a bit tonight after the thunderstorm, but it&#8217;s still very warm and humid. We&#8217;re in for a warm night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a hot day in Melbourne. And, as often happens here in summer, the day ended with a thunderstorm. This is a picture I took about an hour ago from the beach at Mordialloc There are major bushfires around the state and the firefighters are sweating on a wind change and some rain. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}