HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/city-swelters-records-tumble-in-heat-20090207-80ai.html

I live in town that became an oven today. 46 degrees celcius.. hottest it's ever been in recorded history.......
trees lost their leaves, black smoke billowed over the houses, people stayed indoors and stared out of their windows, which if they looked anything like mine, had foils over them.

We foiled our windows to keep the heat out as much we could. My housemates and I ventured out, despite warnings not to leave our houses by our State premier, to go and get vidoes and iced coffees - a girl has her addictions..;-) not going to stop for some weirdass hottest day in history nonsense, now is it?!

So we sat in our darkened house under fans with iced ginger water, spray bottles and took turns with cold showers.
All of us felt nauseos at some point in the day and reminded each other to just keep on sipping from those water bottles.

And then I had to go to a theatre and perform. Thank #$%#$% we have air conditioning at La Mama.
After the "don't leave for anything, don't go on public tranport, don't just don't" messages today in the media, I was suprised to see we still had an audience rock up. I think they were pleasantly suprised to walk into a balmy 25 degrees, which felt quite cool after the day we had.

What is going on in the world that we have these weird ass fire raging crazy days down here in down under whilst up there in the land of the north there are blizzards going on?

Can anyone tell me if this has something to do with the tilt of the earth? The ozone hole? The global warming effect? Someone..must know something..?! Come on.........