Beach Season Is Back In Melbourne On The Hottest Day in 6 Months!!

[@lyonheart84]

Brilliant that you can get back to the beach now guys, enjoy your season 👍

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

Thanks Brett! We are grateful!

[@RussellBooth1977]

Next Monday is supposed to get up to 31°C in my area (Newcastle NSW) or Seaham to be specific, Today it's 24°C perhaps due to being partially cloudy, next Tuesday I mentioned that we're going to have a freak 17°C day then it will pick up to about 21°C on Wednesday. The reason that I wouldn't move away from my area besides having a nice climate & my town is a nice place to live is because my immediate family lives in the lower Hunter region of New South Wales & apparently a company is managing to be able to Tee up some work for me locally. I could move up to Mullumbimby or Byron Bay way because my dads side of the family lives up there but that also means leaving my immediate family members behind &: it's harder to get work up there. Even my uncle had to catch a train from Mullumbimby to Kyogle then catch a bus to Urbenville when he was working as a wildlife park ranger before his back injury & before he died of prostate cancer in 2009. It was a 250 Kilometre trip one way from Mullumbimby which was a pain because he wasn't home for most of the time because he would have to stay in a cabin which was supplied to him by the National Parks & Wildlife service of NSW !

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

You live in a wonderful part of Australia. I wouldn't think of leaving either.

[@MisterKN]

Jumped into Sydney harbour's Balmoral Beach last week for the first swim of the season and water temp was 18c. Very doable but do prefer 20c+. Good for the immune system. Safety beach on the Mornington Pen last year in late Dec felt like 18c-19c as well.

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

18C is very doable, especially with no wind and full sun. We love Sydney's coastal beaches but have not discovered any in the harbour. Mornington Pen is equally superb, but an hour's drive each way from our home.

[@RootedMate]

Lived in Melbourne for 35 years. It was never beach weather for me

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

I can sort of understand as I was not a beach person at all until meeting my partner in my 40's. Thanks to her, I can now appreciate Melbourne's safe clean beaches, without worrying about crocs, irukandji jellyfish and sharks which are common in North Qld.

[@FidgetMDCCLXIV]

BOM says Melbourne could be seeing one of the hottest summers on record. I mean HOT. Potentially 45 degree days. Only 7 days cracked 45 degrees in Melbourne, including its suburbs. January 13, 1939: 45.6 C CBD January 31, 1968: 45.8 C Essendon January 25, 2003: 45.0 C Laverton January 30, 2009: 45.1 C CBD February 7, 2009: 47.5 C Laverton January 25, 2019: 46.0 C Melbourne Airport December 20, 2019: 45.2 C Essendon And if anyone’s in Essendon, Laverton, or Melbourne Airport, watch the hell out. They are the hottest suburbs in Melbourne.

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

I guess those scorchers are overdue, it's been a while since we had 45C. Stay safe! Thanks for sharing.

[@SmartDumbNerdyCool]

You unwittingly proved Flat Earth too

[@bera0014]

But, but people say Melbs doesn't have beaches...😜and the southerlies are from the Antarctic and northerlies are from the interior of Aust - so like you I dislike the southerlies

[@reallifefuntopia8273]

Most people want warm beach water which is understandable, but these same people are unaware of the health benefits of cold water swimming. That being said, we do enjoy swimming in the warmer water in Qld & NT over winter.