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Does it ever get cold in Oz?

Old Jan 14th 2010, 9:31 am
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar
Wow 30 years in Adelaide! You deserve a medal.
Being born there, I guess I didn't have much of a choice in it! I miss Adelaide so much though, mostly the familiarity and all my favourite people and places.
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Old Jan 14th 2010, 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar
Wow 30 years in Adelaide! You deserve a medal.
Jeez murderers get off more lightly than that!!
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Old Jan 16th 2010, 8:50 am
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Originally Posted by Lord_Farquar
Wow 30 years in Adelaide! You deserve a medal.
you gotta be kidding me. the only reason you would think that is because our murderers are inventive but there are few. compared to everywhere else in the country where they kill lots of people with these weird things called guns. adelaide's few murderers think outside of the box
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Originally Posted by Alfresco
With everyone 'discussing' the current insufferable heat in Oz, I would like to know if it ever gets too cold where you are in Oz - even now, in summer?

I know it is summer now, but please put things into perspective.

Maybe ABCDiamond could come up with the lowest summer temps or something for each major city.

Thanks.

nope. Sometimes in June or July you step outside in the morning and think "its a little bit chilly" when it drops to 10c...but it never gets cold here.
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Originally Posted by asprilla
nope. Sometimes in June or July you step outside in the morning and think "its a little bit chilly" when it drops to 10c...but it never gets cold here.
Excellent! That's exactly why we're planning to move to Brissie.
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Originally Posted by Sirbla
you gotta be kidding me. the only reason you would think that is because our murderers are inventive but there are few. compared to everywhere else in the country where they kill lots of people with these weird things called guns. adelaide's few murderers think outside of the box
You do realise I was joking, don't you?
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Old Jan 16th 2010, 7:38 pm
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Well I lived up in the hills of Adelaide and yes it got bloody freezing for most of winter.So much so we had a wood burner which was burning 24/7 pretty much.Depends where you live in Australia.My best mate (from Q'land)used to whinge like anything about how cold it was in SA!
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Originally Posted by Aussie30
Summer? In the UK? I must of missed it!
You must be kidding right?We had a fab summer(and yes I'm from Adelaide as well!!!)Ok we did'nt hit any real hotties but yep it felt pretty warm where I was.Infact OH read the temp gauge outside and it was 30c on the odd day.Other days it was maybe 25c which is just right for us!
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1st Winter ... no!

2nd Winter - a little, doona needed

3rd Winter - Doona x2

4th Winter Doona x2 + 1x leccy blanket.

5th TBC

No double glazing or central heating here ...
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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede
That's not an issue of temperature though, is it? I mean, Perth doesn't exactly hit -30°C every year.

That's just a case of you being cold in a house that's not designed for the cold.

Basically..

Originally Posted by bcworld
Exactly...everyone's different.

My OH and other Aussie friends had a huge whinging session at the end of winter complaining about how depressing Melbourne weather was...I just couldn't see where they were coming from! Maybe after a few more Melbourne winters it'll get to me.....but I doubt it!

However if you do have a predisposition to SAD then SE Qld is definitely the place to be as winters are generally spectacular there. But for me personally I don't like the year round early darkness.
I can live with short Melbourne winters. The long summers make up for it. We love this time of year: Christmas, holiday beach houses, camping on Wilson's Prom, (there's a lottery!), the Tennis, Australia Day.

Brisbane would get the best winters. Not so sure about the lack of DST.
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Melbourne certainly seemed pretty cold last night! Was at Shakespeare in the park at the Botanic Gardens....SW wind howling and everyone was shivering and wrapped up in their blankets and hoodies.
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Originally Posted by bcworld
Melbourne certainly seemed pretty cold last night! Was at Shakespeare in the park at the Botanic Gardens....SW wind howling and everyone was shivering and wrapped up in their blankets and hoodies.
Yup- a front came in bringing well-received rain. 4mm for us - we're happy - keeps our tanks full and the grass green. We've had a great 4months for rain bringing relief after 2 particularly bad years with last year the worst for us.
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Just when you thought it was warming up a little
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html

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Old Jan 18th 2010, 6:37 am
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Item on the news just showed a substantial fall of snow at Halls Creak, several were easily making snowballs, it is not expected to last though.
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Originally Posted by NigelWaring
Item on the news just showed a substantial fall of snow at Halls Creak, several were easily making snowballs, it is not expected to last though.
yes its snowing now in NSW, VIC and Tasmania, Snowing in OZ in the middle of summer and all of the UK in frozen over and as cold as Antartica so much for global warming,
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