Escaping the heat and humidity so far this summer has not been easy, with many relying on running their air-conditioners day and night.
Brisbane is not just hot, it’s muggy. Really muggy. Yes, we live in a subtropical city, but you could be forgiven for feeling as though you have trekked through a South-East Asian jungle by the time you walk from the bus stop to your office in the morning.
Brisbane at this time of year usually means hot days, punctuated with a heat-busting afternoon thunderstorm, typically right on school pick-up time.But so far, this December has been a much stickier experience than usual. Escaping the heat and humidity has not been easy, with many relying on running their air-conditioners day and night.
Brisbane’s humidity has reached 80 per cent in the past fortnight. On Monday morning, the humidity was 70 per cent, despite the temperature being under 30 degrees.– a more accurate measure of the humidity – has been between 22 and 24 degrees, which is more akin to Cairns and Darwin than the River City.In short, it is rising sea temperatures and more specifically, hot air blowing in from the Coral Sea, Regano said.
“But that’s not happening this year. It’s coming from the tropical ocean, not the temperate ocean, and that’s making all the difference.”“Normally when you get a breeze from the ocean, it’s refreshing. When the ocean is really hot, you don’t get much relief. We’ve had a sea breeze for the last two weeks, but we haven’t had any relief at all, particularly at night,” he said.“The water vapour acts like a blanket and stops the nights from cooling down as they should,” he said.
showed the harmful effect of heat on distress is approximately doubled under extreme humidity, and each uptick in humidity resulted in thousands more people reporting high psychological distress.
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