Showing posts with label Essendon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essendon. Show all posts

06 March, 2016

Everyone's gone, but the oppresive heat remains

The players are gone, the crowd's
 gone, but the oppressive heat,
and a flyer posted by Beneath
 the Wisteria supporters, remains.
The players are gone, as is the crowd, but the heat remains.

Saturday’s Australian Football League pre-season match played at Shepparton’s Deakin Reserve between Essendon and Geelong attracted more than 5000 people who braved a 37 degree day to see the action.

Saturday was the first day in at least of week of extreme heat when the average temperature in Shepparton was predicted to be 38.5°C.

The temperature today, Sunday, March 6, was 38.2°C and the present heatwave has been described by the Bureau of Meteorology as “severe”.