Bit off topic with pikeys BNP takeover FACTS and Dickson, but I am a bit of a weather bore, love the summer me and want to know if the weather in aus is as good as we imagine. Been looking at weather FACTS for a few weeks now as I miss the sunshine, well I normally do at this time of year, but looking at Melbourne and Sydney they are listed as 14C and 16C at midday. Is this correct? I always thought it was nice all year round, but taking into account we are now at their equivalent of our april/May period, I would hope for better here. Am I missing something here, is this the night temperature, or is it just hot for a couple of months, come on mascot or other aus based addicks, is the weather there not quite what we are led to believe, as I have always wanted to go and want to know how many jumpers I need to take, or çardies for some people. Maybe I should just stick with Singapore where my sister lives where it is 30C every day with a risk of thunderstorms.
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They are heading into Summer now so would have thought Sydney was hotter than that. September/october are lovely summer months in Sydney - gets too hot Xmas/jan. I never had to wear a coat when i lived in sydney - jsut a jacket but never gloves or scarves.
Wouldn't go anywhere near that sea!
Been a bit different over here on the West coast!
Been poxy today, quite dry, but sodding humid. No real sun but still about 25. Yesterday was clear as a bell and 32, while last saturday had a stormer of 37!
Should be picking up in the next couple of weeks from what we have been told, and come the star of December it will be 30 at least every day, creeping up to 40+ on a few through till about April.
Was watching the games yesterday and see the floodlights on before half time at the hammers v arsenal, hate that time of year when the clocks go back!
Still will have to dig out my big jacket for when I come home home for xmas, especially to watch us beat the scum on Dec 19th!!
As for Melbourne and Sydney, even in the height of summer, you can have bad weather and 'chilly' days as here. In Oz, for me, it's more the lifestyle than anything else. You don't know how much I envy you !!
Its not quite summer "down south" just yet, we are only in the early stages of summer here in Brisbane.
Summer does not really start here until mid-November and once it comes it gets very hot very fast indeed. November-February are the really hot months here in Brisbane and it stays warm until April.
Melbourne and Sydney can be quite changeable in summer but when they get a wind blowing in from the desert it can get bloody hot, especially in Melbourne, whereas Sydney gets more of a breeze from the ocean.
You get about 3 or 4 months of pretty mediocre weather, can be lots of rain... just a bit shit really.. and then in come s the summer for ages quite a few months of it... but it does get a bit too hot...(45 degrees)
Now my theory is that it is becasue of this weather Melbourne is the best place in Oz, having lived on the gold coast where it is hot and sunny every day, every day... hot and sunny..... unfortunately there isnt my soul, so once im spent up and have fully sold my soul I intend to retire there...
But Melbourne with its weird weather system, it adds something, and for me makes it the only place to live.... if Melbourne wasnt here I wouldnt be in OZ...
As Mascot says the Gold coast is sunny most of the time but soulless, beaches surrounded by new concrete buildings. The further north you go the hotter it gets but you have to watch where you swim in the sea due to stinging jelly fish in the (southern hemisphere) summer.
In Byron hinterland (North NSW) the weather is good most of the time year round (no need for a jumper ever unless you go into the hills around July/August). But it does'nt get really hot 38C or above like it does further north or in Melbourne in summer.
We landed in Melbourne in November 2001, got to our hotel and immediately got a text saying we had won 4-2 at Highbury. Happy dayz !! About ten dayz later we were in Adelaide Cathedral and the curator, a Lancastrian, noticing my CAFC cap said what a fantastic game that was the night before, beating Arsenal 4-2. Being an International Break they had shown the game on TV again and I'd missed out once more. Doh !
Byron is gorgeous, getting a bit over-crowded these days though!!!
Yes, the whole of the northern rivers region of NSW is stunning, from Byron right up to the Tweed is glorious and far nicer than the bloody Gold Coast with its tacky malls and high-rises.
That's why the over development up in Kingscliff really pissed me off (Salt, etc), because they were turning a very special place into a Gold Coast MK II.
Leave the Gold Coast for the tourists and schoolies and let the cilvilised people enjoy northern NSW.
yeah, well on days like today when melbourne is 26/27 and Ive got my palm tree tapping on my window , the doors wide open and im sitting a can of wild turkey and coke..... I can see a little bit of difference
When I want to settle down Ill get up the coast and queensland will be the place for sure, but I still need a bit of city me......
And they say Aussies lack class
:-(
it might not be classy, but I love it....
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where are you going the sooz ?