Monday 17 November 2014

weather update


I made an aside in a previous post about the climate here not being benign. Obvious to locals, but I guess that before coming here a few years back (and finding my umbrella immediately blown inside out in a raging thunderstorm) my only model for hotter weather was the Mediterranean. A little cold in the winter, but generally balmy, warm and comfortable.

Sydney is, of course, often all of those things. But it also has monsoon-standard rains, chilling winds from the south east, very hot desert winds from the northwest (off the outback), blistering sun, glaring blue skies. It has extremes - and often contradictory extremes. As they put it on wikipedia:

The El Niño Southern Oscillation plays an important role in determining Sydney's weather patterns: drought and bushfire on the one hand, and storms and flooding on the other, associated with the opposite phases of the oscillation.
Exactly.  

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