This has been the coldest winter for decades and I am so sick of it.
Retired meteorologist and honorary lecturer at the Australian National University Clem Davis crunched the numbers and found it could be the coldest first two weeks.
"This cannot be verified until the end of the month but it's looking like it could be the coldest first two weeks of winter on record," Dr Davis said.
The average maximum temperature since June 1 to this Tuesday in Canberra was 10.4 degrees Celsius and according to Dr Davis "the record is 10.6 in 1946".
If you want a break from the cold, come to Hawaii where it's summertime!
So you've sent your heat north?
All joking aside - I really do feel for you.
We're having an unusually hot time. Phoenix has already had a 110 degree F day.
Even at 5000 ft(1500 m), we have a window cooler that we're going to have to install soon. I don't know how people used to survive.
My mother grew up mostly on a homestead ranch that never did get power. They had a separate building for their kitchen to keep the heat out of the house. Ugh.
Back in the '50s we used to all sleep in the passageway with the front and back doors open so we got a breeze. When it got really hot we'd put wet towels over us and whoever go up to go to the loo rewet all the towels. Thank science for a/c
I seem to be able to handle the heat but don't like the cold, even though I do not want to live in a tropical climate.
@Jolanta
I used to be ok with heat but these days I can't. My neurologist told me it's almost diagnostic for what I have -- MS.
We got incredibly lucky 20 years ago to come across a small (at the time)(3 company sales ago) aerospace electronics firm up in the mountains that was a good fit for me. They even paid for our move.
And we even stumbled across a great property to buy. I guess it was originally built as an old-folks home 70 years ago. We're retired now.
I looked up what might be your climate assuming your bio isn't too far off.
Sorry about that.
It definitely looks like you're in for a couple of cold months. It looks like the temp won't even bottom out for another month -- bummer.
Is there anything you can do -- like say isolate a designated warm space and insulate it? I hope you're ok.
We visited one of my wife's favorite bead shops once in Ketchikan AK and they said they make a club of it. They 'lock' themselves away all winter and do hobbies inside.
It also looks like you often have cloud overcast -- I know that can be annoying.
Good luck. We'll be thinking of you.