It's 48.7 degrees outside and unbearable. “Curse climate change,” you think as the radio announcer tells you it’s hotter than the previous record maximum and at least 2 degrees hotter than today’s forecast.
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| The sun rises over Melbourne during a heatwave in 2018. |
All you want is to get inside your house and sit under the air conditioner with an ice-cold beverage. But when you open the fridge the beer is warm, the ice is melting and the food quietly spoiling. The air con stubbornly fails to switch on.
The power has been switched off to your house, your street – in fact, your entire suburb.
“Why? Why? Why?”
Read the story from The Age by Michael Blanchard - “The day from hell: why the grid melts down in hot weather.”
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