Love Affair with the weather

[girliejones]

Have you ever noticed how the hotter it gets, the more obsessed people become with talking about it - how they have to dissect it in minute detail, noting when the breeze came in, trying to figure out at exactly which minute after 9am it hit 30deg C, debating exactly how hot the prediction is for today and at what time that will happen

Comments

[cassiphone]

*cries* I am in such denial about Brisbane and January but I AM NOT SURE I WILL SURVIVE.

[girliejones]

I'm in Perth hon!

[cassiphone]

yes, but it is also hot in Brisbane. You're just going from one hot to another. It's RAINING here and all chilly.

*cannot cope with heat*

[girliejones]

Heh. It's *different* kinds of heat. We have dry heat here. I too will not be able to cope with the tropics.

[narrelle]

When I lived in Freo it was all about the Fremantle Doctor coming in at around six. In summer we just lived for six o'clock. Now I live in Melbourne and it's all just, 'wait a few days' and sure enough, you get a ten degree drop within a couple of days of the scorcher.

And when I moved from Perth to Melbourne, you wouldn't believe the comments I got on how much I would miss Perth's weather. All that stinky, sweaty, not-dropping-below-28C- for-a-month summer heat? Nope. Can't say that I miss it in the slightest.

LOL. And here I am... talking about the weather...

[girliejones]

Heh!!

And you know now with daylight saving, the breeze doesn't come in till 7pm. And if you live more east than Freo ... well ... you know the conversations!

[narrelle]

Oh yes indeedy. Actually, before the move, Rick Kennett wrote to me to warn me about 'a strange phenomenon we have in Melbourne. It's called 'weather'. You may not be familiar with it.' I suppose in Perth it only gets talked about when it's really stinking hot, and then it's almost like Perthites are really proud of it. They like to talk about how hot it got and for how long in their area, as though it's a competition to see who got most sunburnt. Melburnians compete to see who copped the most rain.

[girliejones]

Heh, that's it exactly. And the unexpectedness of Melb weather - the concept of layering your clothes and taking an umbrella with you *anyway*

[krazykitkat]

Heh. Our thermometer read 41.4C yesterday. Sydney city got off lightly with 33, they get the sea breeze. Far west of Sydney made it to 43. Was bloody hot! Had a bushfire to the north of us, watched the skycrane fly past (they were using our local oval as the helicopter staging point).

[girliejones]

I know! I've been watching it all on the news, so i knew our complaint of 40 seemed a bit weak, though it's been above 33 for about 10 days running or more.

Also, I have to comment, the suburb called Londenderry? It sounds like a berry.

[krazykitkat]

We've at least had cooler days between the hot ones. A run of mid 30s days are even worse.

[girliejones]

wearying

[transcendancing]

Urgh... heat... thank gods for cold showers!

I can tell the difference between 35, 37 and 40... but its still a case of it being really really hot... my functionality levels go down as the degrees go up :P

I find hot days hard enough but if the nights are hot too, that's just a killer.

[girliejones]

Well yeah ... by 40 you're moving so slowly time may as well stand still. And yeah, I cannot cope if its too hot to sleep at night.

[suibhne_geilt]

It's actually nicer up in Barrow, Alaska (well above the Arctic Circle) than it is in Madison, right now. We've been continuously under 0F/-18C for the past few days, and I'm definitely a summer boy. I'd just about kill for some of what you're having down there right now.

Maybe I should see if I can swing a 4-month tech writing gig down in Australia for next winter...

[girliejones]

And now it's my turn to say that I have a spare room...

[suibhne_geilt]

Hahaa!

How does the job market look down there?

[girliejones]

better than up there but not great