I choose option 6 - all of the above, multiplied by infinity.
I'm not sure which is worse: Queensland humidity, or South Australian dry heat and burning desert winds. To add to my little whinge session, my life now alternates between roasting Adelaide summers and freezing Canberra winters. I suspect it's because God hates me ;)
'I choose option 6 - all of the above, multiplied by infinity.'
Ha, excellent! I don't suppose South Australia has a tendency of turning on regular afternoon/evening electrical storms? Because if I didn't hate summer beforehand, I've certainly come to hate it after all the Queensland storms I have experienced in the last eight years.
I don't mind a good, cold winter though. I suppose it's the Wellingtonian in me.
Ah, I'd forgotten tropical storms. No, we don't get them here. But at least they put out bushfires! No such luck here, although it's been relatively good in SA this summer (meanwhile, poor old NSW is going up in flames).
Yeah, to tell you the truth, I didn't really mind the winter. Except for walking to volleyball training in shorts at 6.30 am in 0 degrees celsius, which is not much fun, or walking home without a coat from Going Out at 2 am in -3 degrees celsius, which is even less fun. Take out that and it's not too bad :D
Well, the storms don't necessarily put out bush fires - they're quite skilled at starting them too! A few lightning strikes in a parched Queensland forest and next thing you know, you have a quite spectacular blaze on your hands.
Heh, I used to be this hardy lunatic back when I was a boy in NZ (Queensland's now made me a wimp when it comes to the cold). I remember one day, I was about 7-8 years old and I went to school in shorts and t-shirt despite a temperature of -5, claiming that in actual fact, it wasn't cold! Wellington will sometimes drop below zero, and it's the wind chill that will really get you. These southerlies race up off the Antarctic, shoot up the South Island's east coast, cross the Cook Strait, and give Wellington a fair battering. I lived up on the Kapiti Coast, which is partially sheltered from the southerlies, but the temperature would still drop to normal winter levels! We'd have a roaring fire or the heater on each night and sometimes there'd be snow on the hills behind my town.
Well, the official temperatures for my city are often recorded around the mid-30s Celsius (high 90s Fahrenheit) ... except they're recorded at the Seaway (have a wild guess where that is!) and Coolangatta Airport, which is right by the beach. It's always a lot cooler there - on Christmas, I had breakfast with some relatives who live near the ocean and the temperature was comfortable there. As soon as I got back to my place inland, I started sweating. I'd say it's usually closer to 40 C here (my stepdad once recorded 46 C in the sun and 42 C in the shade at his work nearby).
Things aren't helped by the awfully sticky humidity that comes part and parcel with the summer storms.
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Also, the England versus Pakistan series that just concluded was played in the Pakistani winter.
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... like my mother. I think she's entirely mad.
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I'm not sure which is worse: Queensland humidity, or South Australian dry heat and burning desert winds. To add to my little whinge session, my life now alternates between roasting Adelaide summers and freezing Canberra winters. I suspect it's because God hates me ;)
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Ha, excellent! I don't suppose South Australia has a tendency of turning on regular afternoon/evening electrical storms? Because if I didn't hate summer beforehand, I've certainly come to hate it after all the Queensland storms I have experienced in the last eight years.
I don't mind a good, cold winter though. I suppose it's the Wellingtonian in me.
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Yeah, to tell you the truth, I didn't really mind the winter. Except for walking to volleyball training in shorts at 6.30 am in 0 degrees celsius, which is not much fun, or walking home without a coat from Going Out at 2 am in -3 degrees celsius, which is even less fun. Take out that and it's not too bad :D
How hot/cold does it get in Wellington?
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Heh, I used to be this hardy lunatic back when I was a boy in NZ (Queensland's now made me a wimp when it comes to the cold). I remember one day, I was about 7-8 years old and I went to school in shorts and t-shirt despite a temperature of -5, claiming that in actual fact, it wasn't cold! Wellington will sometimes drop below zero, and it's the wind chill that will really get you. These southerlies race up off the Antarctic, shoot up the South Island's east coast, cross the Cook Strait, and give Wellington a fair battering. I lived up on the Kapiti Coast, which is partially sheltered from the southerlies, but the temperature would still drop to normal winter levels! We'd have a roaring fire or the heater on each night and sometimes there'd be snow on the hills behind my town.
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Spring would probably be my favourite season, despite how much I like to praise winter.
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But there's not as much snow in spring...
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Things aren't helped by the awfully sticky humidity that comes part and parcel with the summer storms.
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