Who stole summer?

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Who stole summer?

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I woke up this morning to the news that when you took into account the wind and chill factor it was 1 degree!

I am outside working on a Satsuki azalea and it doesn't seem to have warmed up at all yet.

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Post by ozzy »

Who stole summer?


I think it was Perth :D


Here their weather for the week ...


Tuesday Shower or two. Min 19 Max 29
Wednesday Chance of a shower. Min 20 Max 32
Thursday Afternoon shower chance. Min 21 Max 34
Friday Hot. Cloudy. Min 22 Max 36
Saturday Very hot. Sunny. Min 23 Max 38
Sunday Sunny. Min 22 Max 35
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Here are our expected over night temps for the next few days.

7, 7, 10, 13, 12, 15.

Also we have not had a 30 degree day temp since February.

We just installed evaporative cooling in our house last week and it is sure working!

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yesterday was aweful. I was playing a cricket match at Largs North(south australia) and it was actually a like a hurricane. When running into bowl it was impossible to pick up a decent speed :shake: the result was my team loosing by 10 runs :crybye:

Lets hope the weather actually changes to summer sooner rather than later.

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At 12pm it's only 5C in Katoomba with a windchill of 3C. Too cold and windy to do anything outside. Image Image

I went to the post office at 10am and a blasted branch hit the windscreen without any damage thankfully.
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Apparently we also had snow (above 1,300 mtr) in the Bridabellas. They are the mountain range to the west of Canberra.

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We might be having a white Christmas :shock:

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Its raining YAY, better not say it too loud other wise it will stop, 34 yesterday.
At the moment it is 18 the barometer is 1114 and falling the humidty is 89 percent. so we did not pinch it :tounge: . The pup is not happy because he has not had his walk :shake:
Yes they reckon the high country is going to have a white Christmas :lost: .

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WOOHOO HERE COMES THE NEXT ICE AGE :cool:
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I'm pretty sure its the global warming. :lost:
Or perhaps it was caused by the GFC. :shake:
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No wait its deffinately beacuse of the boat people smuggling in way too much ice. :o
:lost: I give up.
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We had the coolest average temperature for November ever recorded in Qld, and December is similar. Only 2 days over 30 this month so far, and we are up to the 20th! Mostly it is because of the rain - sunny days are still hot. So much for Global Warming - all a political con anyway. :whistle:

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It's not Global warming anymore! It's Climate change ;)

Ps. I blame the French! When something is going down, they are always involved!
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Tinmonkey wrote:I'm pretty sure its the global warming. :lost:
Or perhaps it was caused by the GFC. :shake:
:reading:
No wait its deffinately beacuse of the boat people smuggling in way too much ice. :o
:lost: I give up.

I thought it was because the locusts caused the price of petrol to jump 8 cents a litre overnight.

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Yeah well in south east there is either 4 storms per night resulting in trees down and massive flooding, then today was like 30 degrees and not a cloud to be seen :/
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So let me get this straight.
Its the French Locusts using too much fuel in their massive retreat accross the country, thus causing climate change!!! :crikey:
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