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With an overnight temperature of 17.9°, summer has come early to our notoriously fickle Melbourne weather with more record-breaking temperatures being set.

The last 2 days have given rise to the warmest temperatures on record for the start of August. Yesterday reached a sweltering 23.1° and with a forecast top of 21° today, no doubt more records may still be broken.

It’s hard to believe that only a week ago we were seeing maximum temperatures in the low teens. Today people are down the beach in shorts and T-shirts. Funnily, a friend of mine came back from watching the Tour de France and commented how much warmer it was in Melbourne compared to the summer he had experienced in Paris.

The Mercury didn’t dip below 17.9° from midnight, smashing a previous record of 16° set on 20th August, 1885. However, it was only last Winter (2010) that we had a balmy 14° at boot camp, so I guess nothing about the weather is really surprising anymore.

But rest assured, Melbourne will still live up to its reputation for 4 seasons in one day. Maximum temperatures will be back to the usual 13 to 15° by the weekend.

Written by Andrew Talati

Check out the amazing rainbow and colourful skies we had this morning at boot camp. It was an incredible 12.5º at 6.00am with balmy weather conditions and 78% humidity.

While most people were snoozing, our Fitmates were working hard with our interval based training.

Many people laugh at claim that we have rain free boot camps in the Melbourne CBD and North Fitzroy,but once again we’ve done it! So, yes I can say it again, it never rains at boot camp, at least not in Nth Fitzroy:))

Last night it started raining at 7.32pm, just after we finished boot camp and again this morning, but as you can see by the dark, nasty radar image we escaped the downfalls again.

Melbourne Boot camp radar image 6am

Storm misses Melbourne boot camp 7am radar image

So there you have it, some awesome views from our morning boot camp and some evidence proving it never rains:))

Well Melbourne’s crazy weather patterns continue with more balmy winter temperatures this morning. While there are conspiracy theories about the US and other countries projecting testing high frequency radio waves into the atmosphere, I like to think it’s more a result of good old global warming.

The benefits are great training conditions if your doing any outdoor fitness programs early in the morning, for our boot camps it’s make for great training conditions. Everyone was sweating profusely within 20 minutes as the unexpected warmer temperatures caught everyone off guard.

It’s amazing that yesterday morning we had a chilly 3.5º at 6am and exactly 24 hours later it’s 14º.
The usual layers of clothing that is required for the average 6 – 8º mornings being made redundant by these summer temperatures.

BUT within 3 hours of finishing, a massive storm traveled across Melbourne with high squally winds and heavy rain, then the sun re-appears.
Truly Melbourne is living up to four season in one day.

Well today at 6.00am it was 10º at Boot camp, 24º degrees cooler than last Tuesday morning at 6.00am when we had 34.2º.
So when they talk about Melbourne having 4 seasons in a day, I would like to redub that to “Melbourne four extreme seasons in one month”

For the weekend SNOW has been forecast down to 1600 metres in the Alpine areas of Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. Definitely, very extreme weather conditions!

At least we received some much needed rain and some mosquito and fly eradication with the colder temperatures. Funny though when I arrived at 5.45am and there were dark clouds looming in the distance, I said to myself that we will be fine and it will not rain during the session. Guess what, within 10 minutes of finishing the second session from 7.00-8.00am it bucketed with heavy rain. So maybe a coincidence but I must say that it rarely rains during our sessions.

Also a big congrats to all the Fitmates who braved the earlier heavier showers to attend our morning session. Once again it’s about commitment and overcoming the fears and belief systems that hold you back.

Well it seems to be occurring quite regularly, last night we had the Hottest overnight temperature on record in Melbourne at 32.3 degrees at 5.57am.
So by the time we started Boot camp at 6.00am it was almost at the temperature when we cancel the session.

It seems with climate change, we are experiencing these record breaking weather conditions with greater frequency, it was only in Spring last year that we experienced the warmest overnight temperature on record at 30 degrees at 6.00am

The current highest recorded daily minimum temperature (from midnight to 9.00am) was perviously 30.6 set in February 1902, so at 9.00am today, a teenee wenee bit warmer at 30.8.

So what’s next, 25 degrees overnight in Winter?
Hopefully Victoria will be ok with regards to the threat of catastrophic fires in the country areas with no more record breaking overnight minimum temperatures.