{"id":6666,"date":"2026-01-23T15:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:54:51","slug":"australian-open-2026-what-are-the-heat-rules-at-tournament-and-other-grand-slams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6666","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: What are the heat rules at tournament &#8211; and other Grand Slams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Analysis by Matt Taylor, BBC Lead Weather Presenter<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Melbourne is set to experience some wild swings in temperatures. That is all down to the city&#8217;s location on the south-east coast of Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the desert interior to the north, and the chilly Southern Ocean and Antarctica to the south, a quick change in wind direction can have you reaching for a fan one day and grabbing your jumper the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the summer the interior of Australia heats up rapidly, and any wind that blows in from a northerly direction will bring that searing heat with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, any switch to a southerly wind will blow in air off a sea that sits at about 16-18C this time of year &#8211; the city&#8217;s own version of natural air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the origin of this wind comes a long way from the south, then you are tapping into even colder conditions and, of course, grabbing those warmer clothes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis by Matt Taylor, BBC Lead Weather Presenter Melbourne is set to experience some wild swings in temperatures. That is all down to the city&#8217;s location on the south-east coast of Australia. With the desert interior to the north, and the chilly Southern Ocean and Antarctica to the south, a quick change in wind direction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}