Fryday 12th Jan

[Man From Ironbark]

So far this year the maximum hasn't yet got above 37.6˚C. Which is what we would call a mild summer so far. In fact we had a rather mild Christmas too. Though the heat is there in Northern and Western, Central Aust., where temperatures have already been closer to 50˚C. Anomalous conditions have kept the south east cooler and more moist than it usually is in an El Nino year. However, it is not uncommon for my locale to have temperatures above 47˚C. On average we'd get from 8 to 10 days of above 40˚C though during January generally, there would be an average of 14 days above 35˚C often concurrent. Similar in February, our driest month. Average annual rainfall is 406.3mm or 15.9 inches.
In winter the temperatures may get as low a -6˚C.

Governor Arthur Phillip noted the effects of the extreme heat of the summer of 1790/91: ‘from the numbers (of dead bats) that fell into the brook at Rose Hill (Parramatta), the water was tainted for several days, and it was supposed that more than twenty thousand of them were seen within the space of one mile.’
and that was an account from the early settlement around what is now known as Sydney which has arguably the most amenable climate in this state.