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[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

I heard it was going to be -5 degree in Canberra today ...
Who needs a refrigerator in that climate ...

Col...

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

I heard it was going to be -5 degree in Canberra today ...
Who needs a refrigerator in that climate ...

Col...

Sigh...just waiting for all the predictable hot air jokes now...

The coupl'a hundred occassional/temporary residents from all your necks of the woods get considered as Canberrans before the other 400,000 of us decent hard working folk and real Canberran's..including Lewis even

[LewisM]

Hey...just hey!!!! Hmmmmm.

[Octane (Humayun)]

The best time of year, by far. If it could be like this (single digit temperatures) every day, I'd be so happy.

H

[LewisM]

Makes 3 of us H. Cold is good. Hot is evil and demonic. Humidity is death

[Wavytone]

Even Sydney is nice, day after day.

If you think summer in Canberra is tough come try February here... the endless humidity is terrible.

[LewisM]

Canberra humidity? Never felt it yet. Dry, the way I like it

[Mav]

We moved from Alice Springs to Canberra back in 2011, we lasted 5 years before the cold got to much for us and we moved back to Alice in 2016.


Canberra is a bone chilling cold, a clothes never drying cold. But when it snows it is pretty darn beautiful.

[vlazg (George)]

Nobody in their right mind gets out of bed before its at least 20 deg...... the tropics......aaaaahh, Paradise

[PhilTas (Phil)]

I'm with you, George

[Nikolas (Nik)]

I'm with George as well, my Mediterranean blood can't take the cold at all gimme summer all year round

[torana68 (Roger)]

Once it’s in your blood you need to be frosty once every year. Couldn’t live without it.

[LewisM]

Went out to Yass last night. Nice and warm at 3°...until around 11pm when I started seeing the diamonds all over the grass outside....then sure enough the scope we were using was frosting on the tube.

By the time I got home it was a comfortable short sleeves -2°, and kept dropping

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by torana68

Once it’s in your blood you need to be frosty once every year. Couldn’t live without it.

I hear you, though not too cold or too long please.



After growing up in Wollongong I spent a few years in the topics (eg Kununurra, Pt Headland, Cairns) and initially loved it, especially the dry season. What with traveling around the top end we had a few years of 'perfect' weather. But after a while I missed 'crappy' weather. Sometimes working in the yard at the fag end of chill day with scudding clouds fleeting by can be particularly beautiful. And, as most people are indoors, there is an uncommon feeling of quiet and space in the city.


I'd spend another few years soaking up the tropical sun at the drop of a hat (or Lotto balls - no, I don't play) but I don't think I'll stray too far from my roots. [Of course, the climate that I die in won't be the one I grew up in.]

[vlazg (George)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Went out to Yass last night. Nice and warm at 3°...until around 11pm when I started seeing the diamonds all over the grass outside....then sure enough the scope we were using was frosting on the tube.

By the time I got home it was a comfortable short sleeves -2°, and kept dropping

Just came back from watching 1.5 hrs of flybys of aircraft taking part in operation Pitch Black at East Point, awesome but..... the temp dropped to 22 and with the windchill got down 20.... hoodie time

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by vlazg

Just came back from watching 1.5 hrs of flybys of aircraft taking part in operation Pitch Black at East Point,....

Did you wear a hard hat??

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Canberrans .... just buy yourself a ' pair of booties and bonnet ' .... that should do it ...

[leon]

Ah George I was in Darwin for a year and you sooks put your woolly undies on when it gets to 20 at night.

Leon