hottest day (and nite too i think)

this was an abc news artical published yesterday afternoon at 3pm:

Melbourne Gets Cool Relief

Southerly winds have seen temperatures drop in parts of Melbourne.

The mercury has struggled to hit 30 degrees in the CBD.

At Tullamarine the temperature peaked at 37 degrees just after 11:00am AEDT.

It is now unlikely the scorcher forecast for Melbourne will happen, although it will be hot in the northern parts of the state.

The Weather Bureau's Ward Rooney says the weather will remain fine for New Year's Eve celebrations.

"It will be a balmy night," he said.

"In fact, northerlies will re-establish over Melbourne overnight, so a mild to warm night is the prospect."

obviously it was much hotter than that when i left the house just before 4pm. here's the latest update on the artical (what you now see when you click on the link):

Last Update: Saturday, December 31, 2005. 8:34pm (AEDT)

Record high temperatures hit Victoria

Many parts of Victoria have recorded their hottest ever December day.

The mercury has risen to 46 in Horsham and Walpeup, in the state's north west, for the first time since 1980.

And temperatures have reached above 42 in Melbourne, making it the hottest New Year's Eve in more than 140 years.

Peter Blake from the Weather Bureau says this afternoon's southerly wind change did not cool the state down for long.

"Now the northerly has taken over and extremely warm to hot conditions have pushed back over most of southern and northern Victoria and temperatures have certainly increased rapidly again," he said.

it was still really hot at midnite and even after 4am when we biked home it was more than warm enough to be in a tank top. its still pretty in the mid to upper 20s (i've only slept 5 hrs but its too warm in the house so i decided to get up on turn the air conditioner and when it gets cool enough i'll go back to sleep on the couch-- closer to the air conditioner)