Sunday, 19 July 2015

Second Snowfall

Last week, the weather was horrible, with freezing days, grey cloud and some snow. Admittedly the snow didn't last long on the ground and each dump of the white stuff was much less than in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney .. or the Southern Highlands. The ski season in the Snowies has been fantastic, and lots of Sydneysiders have driven up into the Blue Mountains to toboggan and throw snowballs at each other.

Early in the week we had the thrill of one snowy day, but what we didn't expect was a second even a few days later, as shown here. There was more snow in the second event and conditions were exacerbated by gale-force winds and a huge wind-chill factor. Indeed, after allowing for the wind-chill factor the day's temperature did not exceed -5 degrees C!!

These pictures show more snow than my previous post - but not enough to last long or give complete coverage of the ground and the third picture attempt to show the snow falling ... not very successfully.




By the way, the temperature in Darwin is still 30 degrees + every day. And today in Armidale the weather is lovely - gentle breezes, wall to wall sunshine, and temperatures back to + 13 C. I've been riding my bike wearing shorts ... all very pleasant.

AS

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