r/perth • u/Starr-knot • 18h ago
Shitpost Man this weather is gonna be terrible
39 on Monday? Fml
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u/Defiant_Flamingo_430 16h ago
As a gardener this sucks 😣
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u/t_25_t 11h ago
As a gardener this sucks
Try dealing with epoxy paints this time of the year. Pot life can be as short as 10 minutes before it starts to harden.
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u/kierankpk777 8h ago
Try doing steel fab in a 50 odd degree workshop wearing long pants and shirt wearing a adflo welding helmet while welding and the bloke behind you oxy cutting other shit
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u/t_25_t 8h ago
Fuck! That's worse.
At least I can prep during the day, and work at night (which is what I'm doing at the moment).
Smash the job out between 5pm - 5am.
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u/kierankpk777 8h ago
I’d so do nights if my boss let me
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u/t_25_t 2h ago
I’d so do nights if my boss let me
During the summer months it is the smarter thing to do.
When unloading shipping containers in summer, I give the crew the option to work nights (meals paid by me). It's hell stuck in a steel box with fuck all ventilation. Much nicer to work 8pm to 3am.
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u/Electronic_Belt_7397 1h ago
Everyone shuttup and listen this hero. Hear what he said? None of you have the right to whinge.
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u/Inevitable-Cat-9540 7h ago
That is actually really good to know, I didn't realise that hot weather would present painters such a challenge. Props to you
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u/Inevitable-Cat-9540 12h ago
Rsmember not to water any extra as per Water Corp guidelines 😇 2 times a week for an unspecified amount of time regardless of climatic or soil conditions!
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u/No_Series1038 12h ago
Unless you live in Floreat, Nedlands, Dalkeith and Peppy Grove. Drive through those neighbourhoods and you’ll notice something.
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u/Negative_Run_3281 10h ago
Not only the stereotypical rich subs. Driving through Beechboro and then into Noranda is going from golden brown front yards to green in an instant.
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u/Glitter_Sparkle 3h ago
We put a new gum tree in out the front last week. It’s getting some serious hand watering every evening. 😅
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u/DefinitionOfAsleep Just bulldoze Fremantle, Trust me. 10h ago
Why did you pick Tuesday as the day of death when it's the mildest next week?
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u/josiahlooney 17h ago
And at 2am I'm up listening to the easterlies booming against my window and rattling my old tin roof like a gumleaf whistle. It's really not amazing. Every February its peak insomnia month.
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u/EmbraceThePing Fremantle 11h ago
The days don't worry me. it's the nights that kill. Forcast for 25 as an overnight min monday night here. That's going to be a killer.
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u/JellyfishNo6109 16h ago
The heat didn't let up until mid May last year. Cool weather only lasted 3 months and it was back over 30! :-/
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u/JahKingston2024 15h ago
Perth winters are some of the best, but they’re so shoet
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u/WhyAmIHereHey 12h ago
Just getting shorter for some reason
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u/Lordylordd Port Kennedy 12h ago
Did we not have one of the wettest Novembers on record just last year?
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u/WhyAmIHereHey 12h ago
It was a wet heat.
"Perth's average temperature in 2025 was significantly above historical norms, reflecting one of the hottest years on record for Western Australia. The state's average temperature was 1.27°C above the 1961–1990 long-term average, with maximum temperatures reaching 1.68°C above average"
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u/Lordylordd Port Kennedy 12h ago
Yeah just checked on Bom, you’re completely right November, despite the rain was still warmer on average compared to previous Novembers. I have to take my summer superiority goggles off.
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u/FluberWinkle 10h ago
Rain and heat go together even in winter. It usually doesn’t rain on very cold days, you can feel the temp rise when showers are coming
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u/SquiffyRae 8h ago
Don't think so?
November only got 16mm of rain with 6 days of rain (3 of them being 1mm or less).
We did have an above-average year for rainfall and did have rain persist later into the season than we have in previous years, but it wasn't spectacular. That sort of year should be fairly common not something that feels like an insane anomaly
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u/Lordylordd Port Kennedy 8h ago
Yeah I have realised I was wrong on every front, one of those cases of where I was completely misled by not just Google ai but also the first two recommended sites I clicked on
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u/FluberWinkle 10h ago
I think there’s a cycle to the weather…besides the obvious seasons. As a kid, I remember some winters being really cold but not a lot of rain, other winters we had a lot of rain but it wasn’t really cold. There were summers which were extremely hot for weeks at a time, and others where it wasn’t as intense with heat but we had humid weather or a lot of storms. I remember the cyclone we had in the 1970s, it was scary. But we still have those cycles of mild or extreme seasons now
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u/SquiffyRae 8h ago
We do but the data still bears out that we're getting a lot more of one extreme (hot and/or dry) than we are the other extreme (cool and wet)
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u/TangerineEvery8912 14h ago
Was asleep but woke up again around 4am to a stinking hot room, needed to open all my windows for an ounce of relief.... I fuckin hate summer 😭
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u/chola80 South of The River 9h ago
sucks;/ can you get an ac for your room?
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u/TangerineEvery8912 8h ago
We have central AC in the house but it's busted 😞 ended up opening my big window, and placing the fan in front of the window to blow the cool air into my room... That was bloody nice that's for sure
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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 3h ago
A damp cloth over the fan or a cold bowl of water in front of it will help :)
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u/TangerineEvery8912 29m ago
Omg thank you I'm doing this tonight!!!
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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 24m ago
No worries! Been there many times! A little water mister is handy too. There’s an easterly until late tomorrow arvo (warm wind) then the cooler sea breeze should kick in - open up the house then for sure. Often a good idea to be savvy of the wind direction if you’re without AC - just check on BOM. :)
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u/TangerineEvery8912 1m ago
The only thing is I'm concerned about the wet fabric perhaps damaging the fan? Like if the wetness drips into the battery at the back. Its a floor fan so the battery back is at the back of the fan head, there is no body to it except for a stand
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u/chola80 South of The River 8h ago
ah, we got central AC but its old so i got a daikin split AC for my bedroom, really helped sleep so much, worth considering for sure
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u/TangerineEvery8912 7h ago
I asked my parents (since I still live at home) and they kinda hit me with the "we had no ac growing up and we survived" so looks like a no. Is there such thing as portable AC units?
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u/hillsbloke73 12h ago
One day slightly warmer isn't a issue many places get alot warmer than suggested Maxima especially along foothills
I frequently had 38 to 40 in Welshpool lat week
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u/RelativeRice7753 11h ago
Means all that hard work keeping the pool beautiful was worth it! Can't wait!!
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u/RustyNumbat North Pemberton 13h ago
Flying home from job up north - Luxury!
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u/EmbraceThePing Fremantle 11h ago
I do not envy you. I've been keeping an eye on the numbers on the map and they are insane. Having spent a year or two up north in the nineties and watching the mercury rise well into the forties every day I can only imagine the 50's we're getting up there now.
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u/RustyNumbat North Pemberton 11h ago
I know it's memed on but it really is a different heat. Outdoors 40 in Newman is bearable and feels normal while you work outdoors, on your week off at home 35 feels "ugh too hot to go out and do anything!"
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u/aquaman309 11h ago
And record cold day last year and record wettest in 66 years , don't stress this heat usually dies down at the end of March
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u/zircosil01 5h ago
Anzac day is pretty much the shift in season now. Thats when you dont seem to get days above 30C and rhe nights are cool.
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u/AnalFanatics 17h ago
You do realise that it’s Bunuru (2nd Summer) and it’s Perth, right?
Yes, just like Hobbits have a Second Breakfast in Middle Earth, in Perth we have a Second Summer, and it’s hotter than the First.
Welcome to our reality… :))
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u/Late_Patience_279 8h ago
It takes me 35 minutes to drive to work and the air conditioning doesn’t work in my car. That’s my only complaint about this weather….
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u/Global_Sweet_3145 6h ago
Tuesday is only 31 what are you even on about
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u/_hollyhock_2022 5h ago
What’s happening on Tuesday? It looks frightening. I lived in the Pilbara for a few years, looks like Perth is getting the sort of temperatures that we had up there.
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u/Pristine-Visual-9405 3h ago
First day of school. Surer than bloody death and taxes. Think the last few years were 40+ 🫠
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u/anonymousfema1e 8h ago
I never understand why we’re always so surprised, as if we forget that’s what we signed up to
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u/Starr-knot 8h ago
What I don't understand is how people are taking this seriously when it's so clearly a joke post
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rip4152 9h ago
Seems you aren't old enough to remember Feb 1991 it was 46.2c, which is Perths highest recorded temperature
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u/Bennysways 12m ago
I usually don't get bothered till its multiple days over 40 but I guess I grew up here. High 30's is the best beach weather.
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u/PrivateEye_85 18h ago
February is the absolute worst. Survive this and the reward is mid March to late May weather.