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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

With a cold 3.5 degrees at boot camp this morning, I always say that the hardest part of getting yourself to an exercise class is putting your feet on ground from your bed.

The distance may only be 3 to 4 feet however this can present many challenges at 5.30am in the morning when hitting that snooze button for an additional 10 minutes sleep is very hard to resist.

Yet once you are all the rest is easy as at some point need to venture out into the cooler weather to either go to work or to a gym, fitness studio or outdoors if you’re doing a boot camp. The funny thing is that once your warm find that very quickly you’ll be down to a T-shirt entering a smart and it’s when you’re grabbing a drink you will find steam rising from your body.

One thing that you’ll experience is absolutely amazing sunrises and iridescent blue skies following the previous clear nights skies and cool mornings. Whilst most people are snoozing and oblivious to the most absolutely magnificent sunrises.

We’re very fortunate in Australia went by our morning temperatures rarely get below 4° unlike other countries around the world. For instance in Scandinavia if you go training outdoors you need to keep moving as your perspiration quickly freezes if you stay stationary for any given time.

While there were predictions of above average rainfall for this winter, this has been revised to average rainfall. Luckily this week has been rain free for our boot camp training so we have enjoyed being outdoors.

Also remember to stay hydrated as you are still perspiring and will need to replenish the lost fluid.

While there was patchy showers across Victoria, a massive hail storm moved across over Melbourne last night. There was no mention of hail storms on the weather forecasts as this storm seemed to originate from nowhere.
While I always joke about it never rains at Boot camp, I think breaking the record with hail is going a little too far:))

The temperature dropped and while I was waiting at the Rotunda with a new Fitmate, the winds increased from 15-20knots to 35-40 knots with pea sized hail voraciously dawning upon us. Well boot camp was now officially over as we ran back to our cars.

Within minutes the ground was covered in a layer of sleet and the fallen hail collecting on the windscreens like we were up at the snow. Once the epicentre of the storm based, the skies cleared and the rain subsided.

With the cool 7º temperature, the hail was in no hurry to melt with piles of hail still visible after 20 minutes.

Well done to the 8 Fitmates who braved the rainy weather to venture out. While we do have sheltered areas at our parks, it’s game over when either it hails or there is a warning for one of these extremely nasty storms.

We had a similar storm in April this year with loads of lightening and thunder, once again we canceled the session as lightening and Fitmates don’t mix.

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.