3rd warmest april on record in Perth.

Could do with a bit of rain now though

Interesting - I was the OP and didn't complain (whinge) about the cold - just put the record on -hmm - record!

One of thereasons we settled here is because there are seasons - often four before lunch - and the humidity is low all year round. The trees are now at their best - reds, oranges and copper colours all over. It was even better in Canberra.

What one *could* legitimately complain about is the almost total lack of insulation in the houses - great gaps under outside doors, no loft insulation, no wall insulation etc. The locals seem to get used to it - you see them walking around in shorts and T shirts in 5' temperatures with a wind chill of -15'!

I noticed more people in trousers, rather than shorts, yesterday.

So the cold has definately hit our area... Looks like we are dropping down to a maximum of 23°C on some days this week.

My wife was digging the quilts out last night. And I now need to find my socks and trousers, I haven't seen them since September.

Temperatures plunge below 3C across Melbourne this morning

MELBOURNE has shivered through its coldest April morning in over 50 years, with temperatures dropping below freezing in some suburbs.

Melbourne recorded a low of 2.9C just before 7am, the equal lowest April minimum temperature since 1957, while a number of suburbs had temperatures of between 0C and 2C.

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Melbourne set another record yesterday when it recorded four days in a row below 15C for the first time since 1949.

Sussed...!

Oh stop yer moaning. Here in NZ we've had a few unseasonable days in the 20s, which was great, but tomorrow we're back in business with a low of 0 and a high of 8.

Errol was from Tas, where it may well be cold (1c this morning when I left work at 7.30am!) but it's not wet, Hobart is the driest capital in Oz, along with Adelaide.

Beautiful here today, cold, crisp, clear blue sky, sunshine, snow on the moutain - perfect (well, it would be if we had double glazing and decent heating )

Sam

Funny that just look at average rainfalls and hobart gets a full 1 cm more rain than perth every year

Global cooling?

But it's only about 12 weeks since Melbourne recorded it's hottest ever recorded temperature at 46.4C and it's hottest ever consecutive 3 days.

Global confusion?

yes had a sudden change up here, really feeling the cold this week 2c the other morning the windscreen was frozen up! absolutely peeing it down here at the mo.

on a positive side the sunrise in winter just seems so magical, beautiful orange skies and could see all the islands as clear as this morning. Plus I love winter clothes, log fires, a few glasses of pinot and bangers & mash cant beat it

It comes every year.

I don't think he had any choice of where he was born. He didn't stay long.

They've even opened one of the slopes in Buller.

http://ski.com.au/snowcams/australia...r/buller1.html

I don't think so:


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...tm?site=hobart


http://www.bom.gov.au/watl/rainfall/...ns/index.shtml
April 2008 - March 2009 12 monthly rainfall totals, Hobart = 448mm


http://www.bom.gov.au/watl/rainfall/...ns/index.shtml
April 2008 - March 2009 12 monthly rainfall totals, Perth Metro = 761mm

Sam