Interesting you got such high temperatures on the coast. We had a reasonable day. It's usually the other way around.

It got warm, but not hot enough to prompt a temperature check. It was about 31degrees around 1.30pm, but that's not hot. I can sleep with a doona at 30.

As for floods, once upon a time rivers would flood regularly, leaving a residue of fertile silt on the farmland.

I remember as a kid going out to Windsor and seeing the properly high-set farm houses along the river. They were like that along the big rivers going up the NSW coast. Now people build houses on slabs and wonder why they flood.