‘If You’re Not Sweating’ in This Town, ‘There’s Something Wrong’

I lived in Sydney for 5 years and really miss OZ. I did a lot of business travel to Perth but have had that Northwest corner of OZ on my list for years. Thanks for the reminder maybe this July or August I will wander on down there.

I'm not sure it would be so green for most of the year. And please for the rest of the world temps in celsius, fahrenheit is pretty well meaningless to anyone outside of the USA.

The photographs make it look amazingly green with a flowing river. Unless it's monsoon season, or winter rains, Marble Bar is greener and wetter than Tucson.

cool trucks!

We must prevent the strains of coronavirus in places like Italy and Iran from entering the United States.

I'm originally from Phx, and this would not be unheard of. When it got closer to 120 or didn't get below 90-100 then people got upset. This extreme heat is becoming more common.

This photography is stunning!

Beautiful photography Mr. Abbot

Here we all are, standing in the middle of the track, staring at the approaching headlight, hearing the whistle scream and the wheels on the rails, so close we can read the name, The Climate Change Special on the cattleguard, but, what the hey - maybe it's not really a train…

All else aside, that photo is stunning.

I bet the viruses get fried as well.

If there is an end of the earth, this must be it...

Dang that’s worse than Fresno!

In the presentation linked to below the renowned glaciologist Richard Alley shows a map of the world with red areas where he says that if we don’t change our ways, by the time his students are old the average summer would be hotter than anything yet experienced, with 90 percent confidence. And that we would lose 40 percent of the ability to work outside in the hot months, with some countries it’ll be closer to 100 percent. (unless you can afford an air-conditioned tractor) By late in this century you’d start to have places where it is projected to be too hot to survive outside, it’s like being locked in a hot car on a summer day with no air conditioning, you die. Next century those areas would spread. We’re talking about taking the average out of human experience in a world where our food is already stressed by heat. https://youtu.be/KsecTT1SIrg?t=38m45s

I thought Cobber Peddy (sp?) opal mines and underground houses was hot in 1988, it was.

Thanks for this intelligent (and gorgeous) article. The photos made me home-sick for a mesa in the Mojave (I won't name it for fear of the Instagram plague).

Put our dear President in Marble Bar. I know he couldn't take the "heat" as he and his party would still deny global warming exists. However being a rich man and a self procliamed great leader, I guess the locals would race to supply him with water, air-conditioning, and plenty of food selections.

what gorgeous, gorgeous photos. thank you! I worked on north west australia mine sites during my first years out of engineering school and have never forgotten how it felt to be inside a shipping-container residence without AC, trying to set up the cables (for AC). It was real life hot yoga. I would be covered head to toe in long sleeve sun protection, with my trousers tucked into my steel toe boots (hello snakes), my face and hands smeared in sun screen and insect repellent, with a visor attachment on my hard hat. Even then, I would find that red dust on my underwear. What a place. What amazing people that live there.

I've been in Indio Ca near Palm springs when it was 113 degrees at 3 am.The town of Needles CA. is commonly 120 ish in summer and goes to 130 sometimes.I got stuck there for 4 days it was 121.If you're outside you can die without knowing it. The locals usually look after the unaware and have saved countless unaware individuals ,including myself,it's no joke,it's not a vacation you want to do in summer.

As a native Texan who suffered through many summers in Houston and Austin, it makes sense that most locals and businesses don't bother too much with air conditioning. Not only does it struggle to make a dent against extreme heat like that, assuming it DOES work -- then, your body loses its ability to cope with the heat when you leave the air conditioning to go somewhere else. Best to just struggle against it by helping your body regulate its internal temperature (wet clothes, fans, shade) as much as you can stand.

Just a thought after reading this article...is there any Corona virus in this part of Australia? Given the extreme hot climate, some have said in this country, that the virus will go away when the weather gets warmer.

Well, I take steaks out of the oven @ 125F, so they’re not that far off VERY sorry to say.

What a bleak, gorgeous piece of travel journalism. And the photos that accompany are just spectacular. Livia, brava.

Hey, I've lived in AZ for over 40 years. We've had several weeks of temps between 110 & 115 over the past several years. This is just par for June-July-August temps in Arizona's desert.

There is only one country in the world which does not use the metric system. Please include Celsius equivalents to outdated Fahrenheit readings.

Thanks for taking the time to shed some sunlight on an amazing part of Australia - I am biased, but Western Australia is unbelievably unique and it's fantastic to see the pictures of the Kimberley region being shown. I worked as a laborer during study breaks at the Telfer minesite (very close to MB) and the summers were brutal - we would work in 15-20 minute shifts in order to stay hydrated, quite an experience and one I look back on fondly (now, the passage of time helps).

Having lived close by (180 miles as the crow flies) in Karratha, Western Australia, I can attest to the hardiness of the local populations. It takes a certain mind set to accept the conditions one finds in these locales.