Q&A: Is a portable electrical heater in my room sufficient for heating during winter in Melbourne, Australia?
Question by Pan: Is a portable electrical heater in my room sufficient for heating during winter in Melbourne, Australia?
I am told Melbourne is not as cold as London? I am looking at a house with no heating…..but hope to have a portable heater for myself? Would one portable heater be sufficient ..I dont wanna fall ill ? :) What abt over summer ? Would you need an air conditioner?
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Answer by Biggie J. Littlehorn
The temperature is very unlikely to fall anywhere near as low as in London. Temperatures below zero are uncommon, even at night in the middle of winter. Actually, even temperatures below 10 degrees occur mostly while one is asleep. :)
You should certainly be able to avoid ill health without substantial heating, but tolerance may vary. It’s mainly a comfort thing, depending on what you’re accustomed to and the size of the areas you want to heat. I certainly know people in Melbourne who possess only a small portable heater to ‘take the chill off’ the room they’re currently using.
Here’s a plot of daily minima for a few hundred days in the 1980′s to give an idea:
http://www.scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/whatisstatistics/images/mintemp1.gif
In the summer, there are few people who get by without air conditioning these days. Although you’d be unlikely to use it more than about half the time. There are plenty of 22 degree days in summer, but the spikes in temperature can be very harsh.
Here are the daily maxima from that same 1980′s period:
http://www.scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/whatisstatistics/images/maxtemp1.gif
Again, it depends on one’s tolerance of warm weather. There are a few dozen 30+ degree days per summer, and a handful of 40+ days. High temperatures in summer can persist right through the night in the midst of heatwaves, and sleep can sometimes be difficult without some sort of cooling. People visiting from Singapore might not be bothered but I suspect that, say, northern Europeans (along with most of the locals) would want some relief from such heat. (Although I notice that the BBC source below classes the degree of discomfort as ‘Moderate’ for those months, presumably because the humidity remains lower than in the subtropical cities.)
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