we've has some really hot & humid days (typical Sydney summer) with rain (typical Sydney summer) in the past few weeks.

During several nasty days I was reading 2 books - both mysteries - one set in Hawaii in 1890s in hot/humid times - US visitor hated it & could barely cope, the other in Italy, August 1960s, when the local detective had to battle similar weather.

I was hoping my next read would be set in winter while I struggled thru hot humid days & nights - tho with an electric fan blowing cool air on me at home, & scurrying between air conditioned trains, buses & buildings, & other air conditioned trains, buses & buildings I was much better off than those fictional characters. I hate humid weather as much as they did!

Sydney has longest spell of days below 30C in 140 years (11 January)
Sydney averages 15 days above 30C per year. The run of sub-30C days is set to continue into mid-January      (& it did)
As most of southern Australia sweats under a prolonged heatwave, Sydney is on the verge of recording its longest spell of days below 30 degrees Celsius in 140 years.
While the weather has definitely at least resembled a version of summer since the pre-Christmas record cold spell, Tuesday's maximum of 26.6 degrees at Observatory Hill marked the 323rd consecutive day under 30C, already the longest stretch in three decades.

The article refers to the offical Sydney CBD weather station on the Harbour, as always Sydney's western suburbs had many days of temperatures over 30. (30C = 84F)

sandra (in sunny Sydney, 9am on Wed 1st February, 22C = 72, forecast for 27 = 81)