Red Space Rocket

The forecast for this Monday is 35 degrees in Geelong which strikes me as pretty hot for November. Then I wondered if I have been thinking so much about climate change that I am losing perspective on what normal weather is.

So I checked the official stats on the Bureau’s site. They have twenty six years of data from 1970 to 1996 and here is what I learned from that data.

The average daily maximum temperature is November in Geelong is 21 degrees.
On average there is less than one day each November over 35 degrees (0.6 actually)
The hottest November day on record in Geelong got to 40.7 and happened in 1982.

So Monday will be hot. I would even regard it as unusually hot. Thankfully not as hot as 40.