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Originally Posted by slice of heaven
I think a childs perception is a large factor in this.
I know the summers were hotter, the sky was bluer, the stars were brighter and the full moon was bigger when I was a kid.
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that is so true eh mate - very hard to trust one's childhood perceptions of weather - it was all so rosy
Paul - imo this strange untypical local weather started in Adelaide around the time of Mars great opposition in 2003 late July into August - I remember it only to well
- and it hasnt stopped since. Have you forgot last years very wet winter? that was worse! we didnt even get an autumn went straight into winter and stayed there till summer started.
I remember a couple of years identical pair to these last few - I think it was '92/'93 - when Cuddly Creek caravan park was washed away when the torrens flooded (was one of those years) anyway I have a theory they came in pairs
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Funny thing is remember prior to these wet years - when it didnt rain much for maybe 3 years and we had extremely hot summers - everyone was saying that was a sign of global warming hehe ... the last bestest years for astronomy locally in the last 11-12 years was in the mid '90's imo I remember you could pick just about any night and the seeing/transparency was awesome - took it for granted tho.
Visited my family in Brisbane recently and they were saying how dry it had been up there for years - how it was more like Adelaide weather (that they remembered) and the extreme humid stormy weather that they/we experienced all thru '80's in Brizzy had all but disappeared up there in recent times.