Thursday, 5 March 2009

Turning of the Season

In Australia, Autumn officially begins on 1 March, unlike the northern hemisphere where - if I'm correct - Spring begins on 21 March. Even in Iran, the 'new year' (No Ruz) begins on that date.

Anyway, Autumn suddenly arrived on 5 March this year. Yesterday, Wednesday, the weather was a hot 29 degrees C (about 85F) and very humid. About 18.00 a massive thunderstorm broke and it poured with rain for more than an hour. When I listened to the weather forecast this morning, I discovered that we had had the coldest night for months (only 7C), the humidity had gone completely, there was a strong SW gale blowing, and today's temperature would be 9C cooler. Not only that, I nearly froze riding my bike to work this morning! Quite a contrast indeed.

AS

1 comment:

Em said...

I hope you are looking after yourself Dad? Not a good look to be frozen to your bike. We are expecting 4 degrees overnight here - chilly!