Weather makes me sick

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

I am 62, and getting older by the day, it is JUNE and we have rain forecast for THREE weeks in Wales (UK)

I remember as a youngster "Flaming June" being good weather

[Exfso (Peter)]

Just to make your day we are 2 weeks into winter and the maximum here today in Adelaide was around 23deg and clear skies, still 20.4 outside and it is 8.30pm..Sorry about that....

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

Winter

[N1 (Mirko)]

Only place I've ever seen anything resembling Winter in Aussie was Charlotte Pass. Jeremy, week 2 and 3 of the forecast are just placeholders. It will turn out better than that. You'll have super short nights right now anyways, so just do solar....

[inline_online (Dan)]

Bad news about the Welsh weather Jeremy.
I'll be in Wales in about 3-4 weeks time for a quick visit. I'm going to climb one of your beautiful mountains...if the rain stays away

[Ukastronomer (Jeremy)]

I could do Solar IF I did Radio Astronomy

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Radio Astronomy. There is a thought.

I swam 500m in the sea today in winter. Very warm, 21 degrees in an out. Still cloudy at night and always humid. So I sympathise with that. It is very wet here in summer which visitors can not believe.

[Wavytone]

Jeremy it can be bad here too. Around 1991 I recall 18 months straight no observing - in particular it rained without fail every weekend for 26 weeks straight. Weekdays were fine which made it even more maddening.

So annoying I got out of Astro, got rid of all the gear and took up another hobby.

Then again we can have drought bring basically fair weather for 7 years straight, day after day of blisteringly clear days and boiling hot summers - that drives many people a bit batty too.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Jeremy,


You may envy our winter but how would you like summer? These days 40C is common in western Sydney, Melbourne is hotter than that and Adelaide is ridiculous - they can easily go a week with max > 40 and minimums in the 30s. Those places are on the coast. Go inland and it gets hotter: many places go months with max > 40. Then there is the Pilbera ...