14, feels like 12 and over 25mm since 9am
love the semi-tropics
love the semi-tropics
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You see plenty of abandoned race meetings due to wind, visibility, fog, waterlogged track, unsafe track etc. very rarely due to the track icing up between races cos it's sub zero at 10pm at night
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It was 2C when I went to bed after midnight. In contrast it was 49C in Las Vegas today - an all time high. I'll take the 2C.
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Yeah, 49 is way too hot. Getting up to 37 over here today and I don't really like that either.
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apparently 10 degrees now
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My brother is flying up to Vegas from Phoenix today to say goodbye to an Aussie poker player he met a few years ago. The guy is flying back home to Perf on Thursday. Good thing he's not flying to Melbourne. Imagine 48C one day and 10C the next.
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When my dad got married I did London Adelaide and back in ten days, it was about five when I left London, and high thirties when I hit Adelaide. I ended up with a shocking cold and a body clock that temporarily took leave of it's senses.
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One Christmas back in the 80s I flew out of Melbourne when it was about 35. My plane stopped in Minneapolis where it was -22. I was sitting near the front and when they opened the door, I thought I would freeze to death.
Something similar happened in Feb 1997 when I flew back for my parents' 50th anniversary. It was about 40 when I left and about -15 when I got into Chicago. On the way back my plane was stuck in Chicago due to a snowstorm and I missed my connection at LAX for my trip to Melbourne. I had to leave a day later from LAX. I missed a day of school, but it was only a swimming carnival. I wasn't even missed until everyone got to Greensborough pool and no Mr Chicago1. That hurt.
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Something similar happened in Feb 1997 when I flew back for my parents' 50th anniversary. It was about 40 when I left and about -15 when I got into Chicago. On the way back my plane was stuck in Chicago due to a snowstorm and I missed my connection at LAX for my trip to Melbourne. I had to leave a day later from LAX. I missed a day of school, but it was only a swimming carnival. I wasn't even missed until everyone got to Greensborough pool and no Mr Chicago1. That hurt.
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I did -40 to +40 once. Couldn't stay outside for long.
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I don't know if others have found this too, but I find you feel colder if you go to a place that normally has a warmer climate and you happen to visit in a cold spell.
For example, I have been in Ballarat in the middle of winter (sunny days, frosty nights) and to Kangaroo Island on a drizzly and windy day when the weather was turning from autumn to winter and it was obviously cold in both places. Yet another time, I went to the Gold Coast in spring and South East Queensland/Far Northern New South Wales had an unusual spell of cold, wet and windy weather for about three days. The maximum was about 13 degrees, the rain fell constantly and the wind chill in Surfers Paradise and other suburbs between the tall buildings made things seem even colder.
I was rugged up against the cold in a jumper and jeans on the day I went to Sea World, and even though the temperature would have been greater than I encountered in Ballarat or on Kangaroo Island, I for some reason felt much colder in this unseasonable weather on the Gold Coast. Needless to say I felt so sorry for the girls who were in the Waterski Wipeout show that day. I got to wear heavy clothes and sit out of the elements; the poor girls were out there in bikinis and their breath still visible in the late morning.
For example, I have been in Ballarat in the middle of winter (sunny days, frosty nights) and to Kangaroo Island on a drizzly and windy day when the weather was turning from autumn to winter and it was obviously cold in both places. Yet another time, I went to the Gold Coast in spring and South East Queensland/Far Northern New South Wales had an unusual spell of cold, wet and windy weather for about three days. The maximum was about 13 degrees, the rain fell constantly and the wind chill in Surfers Paradise and other suburbs between the tall buildings made things seem even colder.
I was rugged up against the cold in a jumper and jeans on the day I went to Sea World, and even though the temperature would have been greater than I encountered in Ballarat or on Kangaroo Island, I for some reason felt much colder in this unseasonable weather on the Gold Coast. Needless to say I felt so sorry for the girls who were in the Waterski Wipeout show that day. I got to wear heavy clothes and sit out of the elements; the poor girls were out there in bikinis and their breath still visible in the late morning.
Cold. But that’s perfect for my ski trip
It was brilliant.
Was some cool footage from Werribee zoo of all the animals walking around in the fog.
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Felt like we were in Cloud City.
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I'm over it.
I had my mini greenhouse weighed down by bricks and propped in by heavy garden chairs. I found it on its side in the backyard. Every seedling a write off.
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It's bad here today in Melbourne. Bins all over the road and several of my small plants keep blowing over too.
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Not cold but windy. Trees and branches fallen.
It's dropped since then. Yikes
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For the Victorians, there's a new radar in north west of the state. How exciting 
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Sound of a chainsaw not too far away which means only one thing. Apparently it will continue for another 12 hours or so according to the BOM (or is that the Bureau )
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Wind so strong it knocked the girlfriend over yesterday.
It's been pretty bad the last 2 days - few trees knocked down, one on my street fell on a blokes car.
It's been pretty bad the last 2 days - few trees knocked down, one on my street fell on a blokes car.
