The Cold

[BuddysBiggestFan]

80% chance of showers. Clueless.

 

[Run n Spread]

Heating has tripled the electricity bill. Usually don't bother with air con in summer (just use fan) and don't mind the heat.

 

[CURVE]

Minus six this morning in Canberra, the fourth morning in row with temps below minus five. And we haven’t got the really cold months yet.

 

[The Passenger]

On the deck with a beer at near 10pm watching the sun go down. Still 24 degrees out.

I do a little happy dance any morning in February when the forecast is double figures.

According to Accuweather that happened exactly once this year

 

[MarcMaverick]

Minus six this morning in Canberra, the fourth morning in row with temps below minus five. And we haven’t got the really cold months yet.

I was in Canberra a long time ago in the winter. I had windburn on the second dawn lighting candles outside. Having said that I love winter.

 

[Tadpole]

6.7 feels like 3.2 in Adelaide at the moment. It's no -6.0, but it's cold enough for me.

 

[CURVE]

Minus six again this morning in Tuggeranong (South Canberra), and the novelty is starting to wear thin fairly quickly. It is so cold it would freeze the nipples off a Polar Bear.

 

[HairyO]

Heating has tripled the electricity bill. Usually don't bother with air con in summer (just use fan) and don't mind the heat.

Dont use heating or air con and have wooden floors too. Blankets and jumpers in winter, fans in summer.

3 bedroom house with 3 people and manage $280 electricity bills quarterly. But sometimes it isnt fun.

 

[sprockets]

I was in Canberra a long time ago in the winter. I had windburn on the second dawn lighting candles outside. Having said that I love winter.

I could have died one night in Canberra. I went to bed in my caravan wearing everything I had plus the sleeping bag, with a space blanket over the top and a small radiant heater on. During the night I got a bit warm so took off my windcheater and threw it. Unfortunately it landed on the heater, which I didn't realise. A bit later I woke up with the van full of smoke! We can laugh about it now my friends...

 

[raskolnikov]

Dont use heating or air con and have wooden floors too. Blankets and jumpers in winter, fans in summer.

3 bedroom house with 3 people and manage $280 electricity bills quarterly. But sometimes it isnt fun.

Just got my quarterly bill. $190.

 

[HairyO]

Just got my quarterly bill. $190.

Pretty sure our base rate is that high.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Mine is due this week. $240 down from $440 the previous quarter. Next one will be like $100 so, yeah, winter sucks. I should have used our fireplace more.

 

[_jrtp09_]

I hate Melbourne’s winters, with a passion! If I could afford to I’d travel to Europe for 3 or 4 months of the year to escape it!

The downside is I’d miss out on all the footy games! [emoji58]

 

[PoppedCorn]

-6 ....****

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Very cold in Melbourne yesterday, only got to 9.6 degrees and was foggy for most of the day.

 

[Billy ray]

Very cold in Melbourne yesterday, only got to 9.6 degrees and was foggy for most of the day.

When’s it going to clear up? Will be there fri to sun next weekend

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

When’s it going to clear up? Will be there fri to sun next weekend

Fog has gone but cloudy today and not much warmer. Who knows what it will be like next Friday, this is Melbourne we are talking about after all I wouldn't expect anything too great though, mostly cloudy and about 13 degrees most days at the moment.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Minus six again this morning in Tuggeranong (South Canberra), and the novelty is starting to wear thin fairly quickly. It is so cold it would freeze the nipples off a Polar Bear.

It didn't seem THAT cold during the week. Yes, it was crisp but not particularly uncomfortable. Maybe the fact that my flat has no insulation and therefore stays below 10 degrees all winter means I don't notice as much when outside.
Except when it is windy, not that it gets all that windy here too often; but when it does it can match the Antarctic Howler that screams up the Derwent into Hobart sometimes.

 

[sprockets]

It didn't seem THAT cold during the week. Yes, it was crisp but not particularly uncomfortable. Maybe the fact that my flat has no insulation and therefore stays below 10 degrees all winter means I don't notice as much when outside.
Except when it is windy, not that it gets all that windy here too often; but when it does it can match the Antarctic Howler that screams up the Derwent into Hobart sometimes.

The wind's the real killer. I was working in my shed with no heater and the roll-a-door open wearing a tee shirt and no jumper working on my bike when it was -2.8 here the other night. As a matter of fact I tried to use the garden hose to rinse off some paint stripper but it wouldn't flow because the water was frozen. Today I was shivering and it was 11 degrees but windy.

 

[TheKanga]

So far looks like the month of June is on average for Hobart.

Last few days

3.7 to 10.8
3.0 to 9.9
3.0 to 9.9
4.7 this morning and a Max of 12.5 today.

Perfect day to catch up on Westworld.

Apparently places like London & New York are going through heatwaves right now.
Don't envy them!

 

[JW Frogen]

We once got down to 7 degrees in Perth.

I had to wear a coat.

The horror, the horror.

 

[Chicago1]

A high of 14 in Melbourne today. Winter? LOL

Today is the equivalent of winter's Jan. 1 in Chicago. It was -17C, the coldest ever New Year's Day high, this year there.

 

[TheKanga]

It's all relative.
Australia's all time low is -23 degrees.

I'd love to experience a truly brutal winter though in Russia or Canada sometime.

 

[Chaisa]

Is anyone else noticing this winter being a fair bit colder than average winters?

 

[TheKanga]

Is anyone else noticing this winter being a fair bit colder than average winters?

Yeah I have.
Also felt like May was basically an extra month of winter.

In recent years in terms of cold.
2015>2018 so far>2017>>>2016