A late night drive.

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The weather here seems to be increasingly unpredictable.

Here the east coast has been getting heat waves for quite a few years but in South Australia there's a new ocean current developed that keeps bringing cold water up from down south and that's affecting our weather, we haven't had a real summer here for 5 years, I've got my hopes up for a better year this year.

That said, it's going to be 37 here today, but with a cool change coming in in the evening so it's only a one off. We haven't had a day over 40 in 5 years now.

 

[vergil96]

That said, it's going to be 37 here today, but with a cool change coming in in the evening so it's only a one off. We haven't had a day over 40 in 5 years now.

Is it Celsius degrees or Fahrenheit?

 

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Celsius, no one here even remembers Fahrenheit any more.

Adelaide traditionally expects to get at least 4 or 5 days a year over 40 degrees and in winter it's very rare for the temperature to drop below 5 degrees. It's a very dry climate though so it doesn't feel as hot or as cold as other parts of the country.

 

[vergil96]

Oofff that's very hot. I find it hard to handle weather over 30 degrees Celsius and there was a lot of it this year. I don't think there is almost ever over 40 degrees, not counting hot weather in the full sun. I' thinking of 40 or above in the shadow. It rarely goes above 35.

It's a very dry climate though so it doesn't feel as hot or as cold as other parts of the country.

True. In Poland it can be down to -30 degrees on occasion and below -15 for quite a long time, but to me it feels warmer than +5 in the UK with their humid windy oceanic climate. The +30 was manageable when it was shorter periods of time. This year we got I think 2 or 3 month of consistent heat around 30 degrees.

 

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True. In Poland it can be down to -30 degrees on occasion and below -15 for quite a long time, but to me it feels warmer than +5 in the UK with their humid windy oceanic climate. The +30 was manageable when it was shorter periods of time. This year we got I think 2 or 3 month of consistent heat around 30 degrees.

In Melbourne 32 feels really hot, sweltering, but in Adelaide it's too cold to go swimming unless it's over 35. Adelaide is almost desert country. And our winters are fairly mild compared to Melbourne too, the temperature ranges are very similar but in Melbourne that cold wind cuts straight through to your bones.

 

[thejuice]

We have several species of fresh water shrimp, and lobster. Strangely, we don't have oceanic shrimp here but do have many different species of prawns, they're a very similar animal.

These are fresh water shrimp, and that's almost as big as they get. They make good fish bait and they're also quite edible.

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Crocs have a less rounded snout than an American Alligator but that's not the very first thing you'll notice about them. They're more than twice the size and extremely aggressive.

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They're really testing the 'Camera Man never Dies' theory to the limit there!

 

[thejuice]

Oofff that's very hot. I find it hard to handle weather over 30 degrees Celsius and there was a lot of it this year. I don't think there is almost ever over 40 degrees, not counting hot weather in the full sun. I' thinking of 40 or above in the shadow. It rarely goes above 35.


True. In Poland it can be down to -30 degrees on occasion and below -15 for quite a long time, but to me it feels warmer than +5 in the UK with their humid windy oceanic climate. The +30 was manageable when it was shorter periods of time. This year we got I think 2 or 3 month of consistent heat around 30 degrees.

Yes and once you sweat, or get wet you're never warming/ drying up again. Being a soldier here out on long excercises is not easy, I see the flares and hear the booms at night on Salisbury plain.