Well we have winter in Australia, we do have snow but not much and only on the highest mountains down south.
However here on the Sunshine Coast the skies are clear and blue’ no haze, no pollution and the expected temperature is about 15 to 25 deg C. It will get about 3 degrees colder as the winter goes on.
This I know a weather eport but weather is salient to gardens and garden railways.
Rgds Ian
Wow Ian,
That sounds like a pretty mild winter just starting to be summer here and at night we are still dropping to around 4C nice and brisk in the morning puts a little spring in your step [(-D]
But hey if that’s the kind of weather you like to be in it must be the right place for you [:D]
take care,
Jack
Here in Sth Oz our winters temps drop to the occasional zeroC overnight & day temps from 10-15 degC. We’ve just recorded the driest Autumn in 167 years , less than 1" of rain instead of the usual 5-6". Bad drought. I’ve lost all of my Alberta Spruce trees on the Ridge due to watering restrictions 
Shortly after my 12th Birthday it snowed and my father took me to the far south of the country to see it.
Nobody had thought to tell me that snow was cold…
regards
ralph
Ian,
Well its hurricane season here on the East coast of the USA. In New Hampshire I got my first lawn mowing in this past weekend. Almost got the lawn tractor stuck in the mud several times. It seems like it has rained just about every weekend since its gotten above 32 F (0 C for you). Too bad we couldn’t give you some of our rain.
We would love some rain with half the country in drought these several years. Our cyclone season is roughly from Christmas to Easter, I don’t think there is a hell of a lot of difference between a cyclone and a hurricane both pretty nasty.
I think them and monsoons which we get the effect of here is weel are now all called RTS (Rotating Tropical Storms) as they mostly start in the tropics.
Rgds ian
If it’s winter in Oz then it must be summer in britland, look out of the window and check, yes it is! It’s pouring with rain, blowing a gale and miserable, what more could one ask for. The back garden is back into resevoir mode, thank goodness I had my flat roof re-felted a few weks back, but hang on, what’s this, the five day forecast has sunshine for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Wow!
You southern hemisphere guys enjoy your winter, at least Ian won’t notice any difference when he comes north.
Cheers,
Kim
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I’d love to enjoy my South Oz winter, but like Phil, my back yard is dying. I have just installed 10,000 gal of rainwater tank, and … NO RAIN.
Happily trade your wet and gloomy weather for our sunny and dry
To all you guys in the southern half of this space ship, a pic of my garden pond. Unfortunately I don’t have a garden pond, well, not all the time. A 10,000 gallon rain water tank?!!, blimey Nic, is that a swimming pool as well?
The good weather forecast has changed now, slightly, showers - heavy in places!
Cheers,
Kim
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Well to contrast Ian,
June 1 is the start of FIRE season here…with almost 40 " of rain last winter were praying for a mild humid summer, otherwise this year could make the last few bad fire years look like a Boy Scout Campfire.
We live near the Coral Sea and its temperature range summer to winter is about 21 to 28 degrees and that makes it hard to have temperatures much outside that range for long.
The Australian East Coast current flows at 4 knots from the equator south; year round hence the great east coast temperatures. This current should be very regualr and predictable but it isn’t, it swirls around and does some funny things as far as direction of the current is concerned, but it gets mixed up sometimes and does anyone know why?
New Zealand thats why!
Rgds ian
My wife is a country girl, and likes her rain water - if you have ever drunk (with knife and fork) Adelaide Water, you’d understand.
A part trade off for me to own and run G Scale LGB (I openly admit to loving the German product) - she seems to have got the better deal!!
Regards
Nic
Adelaide South Australia
It has finally rained here in Adelaide - a good 26mm (just over an inch for the unmetricated).
The DB&DCR is considering a new name:
Bogged In and Flooded Out Rail Co.
Great to have the rain - need another 16 or 17 inches!
Hope Phils trees recover!
Your winter is wonderfully mild compared to NW Ohio. It’s not uncommon to reach -20 C here. Usually more in the range of -5 to +5 C.
underworld
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I have drank Adelaide water and it is brown and pretty awful, to do with the Murray Darling River system and various dreadful things that we have done to it. This is similar to what has happened in New Orleans, similar situation with the water tableat the end of a very big river system.
However before i left Sydney, i was not happy with the water there; you could smell and taste the Chlorine. This was not good as duiring the 50s we had one of the best city water supplies nin the world.
However up here on the Sunshine Coast the water is just about perfect and the local Baroon Dam is over 80 % full. But no rfluoride.
regards
Ian
Ian - where did you get some Adelaide “water” that you could actually “drink”?
Hi iandor
Well its down to 3c at nights now won’.
t be long befor we start geting 0 and the minus figures.
time to go back to the fire.
regards john