49degC (121degF) in South Australia

[Dave, Melbourne,Australia]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-02/records-tumble-as-central-australia-swelters/5182712

This article says the Jan2 temperature at Moomba in the state of South Australia reached 49.3degC and a man in another SA town used the sun to fry an egg on a shovel.

[charlene]

Stop hogging all the heat!! - 2nd day of extreme cold alert here in TO - windchill makes it feel minus 30C...
I HATE the cold..

[charlene]

Stop hogging all the heat!! - 2nd day of extreme cold alert here in TO - windchill makes it feel minus 30C...
I HATE the cold..

[niffer]

Stop hogging all the heat!! - 2nd day of extreme cold alert here in TO - windchill makes it feel minus 30C...
I HATE the cold..

That is expected to be the ACTUAL temp here on Sunday night...-21F is about the same as -30C if I am reading the conversion chart correctly. Suffice it to say I will not be attending the Packers' playoff game that night.

[joveski]

46.5 in melbourne during the black saturday period... didnt feel that hot though!

[charlene]

minus 24C with real feel of minus 36C...good gawd.. and this: http://www.citynews.ca/2014/01/03/frost-quakes-reported-across-the-gta/

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hearing-loud-bangs-in-southern-ontario-it-was-likely-an-ice-quake-1.1616236

no snow tho..
stay safe wherever you are!!

[charlene]

minus 24C with real feel of minus 36C...good gawd.. and this: http://www.citynews.ca/2014/01/03/frost-quakes-reported-across-the-gta/

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hearing-loud-bangs-in-southern-ontario-it-was-likely-an-ice-quake-1.1616236

no snow tho..
stay safe wherever you are!!