Summer's arrived with a screeeech!

We've just had 3 hot days in a row to take us into June. The first two were over 30 and today just got up to 30 in the last couple of hours. The "feels like" index is up at 37, and was over 40 yesterday. It's humid here so the heat is worse than Canberra. Having said that, these days were about as hot as the hottest days Canberra throw at us. If this is as bad as it gets then we'll survive. I think we handle it better than most Canadians.

Also, it hasn't been cooling off overnight, so we've been using the air-conditioner unit in the bedroom. It's on now to give a little bit of relief. My office is in a converted primary school so it's not air-conditioned. We have a fan and that's it. It's a bit mean of the weather to suddenly start with hot weather just when I've started work.

Seriously, Monday's maximum was more than 10 above any max temperature we've had since we've been in Canada. We're told that last summer was a scorcher, with this sort of weather from the beginning of June through to mid August. Also, the winter was mild. It's not a great omen, so we live in hope that this is just an out-of-character early burst of summer.

My new job is good. I just had a long meeting with my boss this afternoon on my first work task. This is my third day and I'm already doing relevant work (using SPSS which I only opened for the first time ever on Monday), so that's pretty good. I thought I might have a bit of hard learning to do before I could be any use, not having formal qualifications as a statistician, but so far it's not that hard at all. I guess I know more than I thought I did!

A sunny smile to you all!