weather extremes

a huge cyclone is heading towards the coast of Queensland...expected to cross the coast tomorrow night...(quite near where my sister lives)
and here in Victoria where I am visiting grandchildren, the temperature soars from an uncomfortable 33 celsius at 8am
to 36.7 at 10am. Supposed to get to 38 today! Then a small cooler change after lunch..please roll on by quickly! The gusty Hot winds currently outside are very unnerving! (Currently 37.5 at midday as I post this).
A good day for playing inside while the day is so hot out.

Australia, a land of contrasts...what does the famous poem say...a land of droughts and flooding rains. In this state of Victoria with the high temperatures of today and the last couple of days, there are people in the north west part of the state, waiting for flood waters from weeks ago, to come rolling through their towns. So far many of the levee banks around the towns have held...good news for the residents, (not without a lot of hard work, and anguish I imagine)! How many years ago was it that the disastrous bush fires came raging through this poor state? Only two?

And many towns in Queensland that have already been flooded this year, some more than once, face the further prospect of more rain from Cyclone Yasi. May it lessen in intensity and not be as disastrous as it appears now.