WTNTs, heatwave, SEQ 500m

1.10pm — 10 swifts speeding low & westward past the back door. 1.25pm — 20 swifts swirling at mid-height & drifting westerly. At the same time the local terrestrial birds became more active. The barometer only dropped a point, though. Today begins a four-day heatwave here. See the BOM “forecast” map at 1.30pm — http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDG00103.pdf OR http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/msl_36hr_forecast_bw.shtml (VS the earlier BOM archived analysis chart — http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/charts/charts.view.pl?idcode=IDX0102&file=IDX0102.201411140000.gif — further BELOW) Cheers, Judith http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDG00103.pdf http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/charts/charts.view.pl?idcode=IDX0102&file=IDX0102.201411140000.gif jlukin01@postoffice.csu.edu.au