A few years back we had a young USAF exchange officer fly out from some frozen hellhole in Alaska where the temp was around -40F and arrived in Sydney where the temp was 101F.
Poor bugger nearly carked it from thermal shock.
Oh, and for the curious, tomorrow in Canberra we are expecting a low of 46F and a high of 77F.
I also have to admit to never having seen snow up close. The closest I’ve been is seeing a very light dusting of white on a mountain about 20 miles away that melted by mid afternoon.
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just because it’s summer down under doesn’t mean you wont get your polar vortex 6 months from now!
wonder what Al Gore is doing today?
lecturing about global warming somewhere, no doubt
I hope his 100’ solar powered house boat is stuck in thick ice
A couple decades ago, working in Yemen, I made friends with a young bilingual clerk we had hired from Kenya.
Once in confidence, away from others who might laugh at him, he asked me if snow was real. He had seen the white on top of Kilimanjaro from a long distance, but had believed it to be bright rock.
He thought snow was something made up to laugh at the ignorance of folks who hadn't traveled up to Northern climates.