Australian weather - another whinge

[Charley Bea(EmeraldP)]

It is currently 5C here and 3:10am. I thought alcohol doesn't actually warm you up just makes you think it does?

[Lonicera]

You folk are too used to being cold wet and miserable.  Stiff upper lip and all!
23c is barely warmed up!

But I like being miserable and gloomy in the rain, I don't feel right if I'm not. It's like losing a part of who I am to this weird 'happiness' other people describe. The heat is just making me the wrong kind of miserable too because I have to sit in front of a fan all day.

[Eris]

I know how you feel Lonicera, I've had the window open and a fan more than a foot across on for the last couple of months and it's still too hot to wear a shirt in here

I miss Aberdeenshire where the sky is grey and it rains at least twice a week...

Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?

I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD

[luna nyan]

Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?

I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD

No.  We just culturally like to binge drink and get drunk, particularly a sub section of the under 30s. Anything is good so long as it contains lots of alcohol.

I usually receive wine as a gift, for some strange reason I've been given whiskey recently.

[Jenny07]

You're all soft.

It was -11c at home overnight.
Lucky I don't live there anymore.

Used to freak people out by leaving the milk out in the kitchen.
In the morning it was frozen solid while the milk in the fridge was fine.
Shame as it hardly snowed there.

Spending a Month in Manila doesn't help.
Darn hot all the time.

J

[immortal gypsy]

You're all soft.

It was -11c at home overnight.
Lucky I don't live there anymore.

Used to freak people out by leaving the milk out in the kitchen.
In the morning it was frozen solid while the milk in the fridge was fine.
Shame as it hardly snowed there.

J

Here here it ain't cold unless there is snow on the ground

Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?

I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD

It seemed to be an unwritten rule that I couldn't understand every occasion in Australia is improved by more alcohol it is just latley the Whisky's are popular (Scotch, Irish, Rye). Don't ask me about it thou, I haven't had a drink for almost three years

[Nicole]

i'm like 3kms from melbourne airport and sunday & monday morning i had frost on my grass, that was a first for me

[Nicole]

No.  We just culturally like to binge drink and get drunk, particularly a sub section of the under 30s. Anything is good so long as it contains lots of alcohol.

I usually receive wine as a gift, for some strange reason I've been given whiskey recently.

wouldn't say thats 100% true.

There are some who like to go out and get as blind as bat->-bleeped-<-, but most people aren't like that.

You do hear a lot more about those who do because it sells papers.

As for whiskey, no idea where that came from, I don't know a single whiskey drinker myself

[luna nyan]

Was freezing last night here in Sydney.

I don't get the whiskey thing either.  Then again, I'm clueless on trends.

[immortal gypsy]

I still say it was not that cold last night, but when you spent your summers in Rockhampton and winters in Canberra as a child. You probably get a bit desenatized to the weather

[Nicole]

Last night wasn't too bad here in Melbourne, wasn't warm, but was a lot warmer than the 2 mornings before it.

Having said that, both days were a lot better than today, it's so overcast today, Sunday & Monday I was in dresses, the sun on the legs was great

[Charley Bea(EmeraldP)]

I am under 30 and I do not drink, so it isn't all of us.

It is currently 3:39am and 4 degrees celcius.

[Eris]

It is currently 3:39am and 4 degrees celcius.

That sounds wonderful 

[Ms Grace]

We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-33^0C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!

[immortal gypsy]

We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-33^0C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!

Darwin cup (horse racing) is on this week. 
When they are talking about the fashions on the field and you see the crowd shots,  you do a bit of a double take while the rest of the country is feeling a cold spell. The tropical North let's pull out the party dresses.
45ºC with 85% humidity in the summer and possibility of cyclones is the price you do pay for the pleasant winter tho

[Brenda E]

Cindy / Grace / Nicole / Any other Aussies here:

I think we're all having a hard job summoning too many tears over the fact you girls are living in frickin' AUSTRALIA.  Us US girls would gladly swap your weather/crocodile/jellyfish woes for our creepy religious political bull->-bleeped-<- any day of the week.

Where do we sign up?

[Jenny07]

Ahh a willing victim I see.
I have a special room of anyone interested. Just ask Jessica.

How would they cope with -40?
Complaining about 0C, soft, very soft.

Winter here is a fashion season at best.

J

[rosinstraya]

We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-33^0C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!

The bloomin' humidity can be a bit of a killer, though! Even in winter!

Truth be told, there's normally not too much to worry about in the average Australian winter.....particularly when we've had several weeks of spring weather already! 

[luna nyan]

Cindy / Grace / Nicole / Any other Aussies here:

I think we're all having a hard job summoning too many tears over the fact you girls are living in frickin' AUSTRALIA.  Us US girls would gladly swap your weather/crocodile/jellyfish woes for our creepy religious political bull->-bleeped-<- any day of the week.

Where do we sign up?

That's still after effects from the civil war yah?  Southern States being close minded?

I'm sure Cindy still has the irons ready and red hot.  >

[stephaniec]

http://www.accuweather.com/en/aq/amundsen-scott-south-pole-station/2258520/weather-forecast/2258520