House of Smoldering Sticks

44.7 degrees Celsius today -- 114 Farenheit, right here in Top Ryde.

With our piddling little air-conditioner barely making a dent.

Then we got rain and a windstorm.

As the Meteorology Bureau pointed out, the first two weeks of 2013 have contained not only the hottest day in Australian history, but the hottest two-day stretch in Australian history, the hottest three-day stretch... all the way up to the hottest two-week stretch.

Thankfully, we've been spared the worst of it here at the House Of Sticks -- we're on a hilltop, and near a river, and we're not really in bushfire territory. We got the cool change tonight, and overall we've had it a lot cooler than places farther west or south.

But anyone who still has any doubt about climate change, kindly kiss my lightly charred ass...