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Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 197
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:17 pm: | 
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This weekend is the official start of the Australian snow season - hence the relevance of the Rutherglen Winery Walkabout mentipned earlier in the week. (If the snow doesn't eventuate, some of the oldest and best Victorian wineries are just an hour or so to the west of the Victorian alps).
I proudly present the first MOL Victorian snowfield report for Falls Creek, just about 1.5 - 2 hours to the east of my humble home (remember temps were taken at 5.30 a.m.):
Temperature Dewpoint Relative Humidity Feels Like
-5.0°C -5.8°C 94% -14.3°C
Yep, there's snow. Not all man-made. Rest of the week looks even better.
I have daffodils and freesias poking their flower shoots through the soil in my garden, oranges ripening on my trees, roses in bud on the bushes and rosellas (native parrots) nesting in my tall hedges; I'm sitting at my desk in my singlet (house is not heated but has remnants of last night's fire still glowing in fireplace). Cat is definitely demanding breakfast.
Australia - land of contrasts.
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Nancy - LibraryLady
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3562
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:29 pm: |
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Wow, Joanne, I HAVE TO COME VISIT!!! I want to see the parrots and the flowers and you,Dave and Minnie of course. It sounds so snug and lovely. |
Calliope
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Username: Calliope
Post Number: 368
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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Joanne,
Isn't it just amazing how you can connect with us, who are more than half a world away?
I never really got the hang of the Centrigrade scale---but I get that it is COLD!!!Your description draws me right to you---in a land I have always wanted to visit.
I love the winter, myself, but I cannot complain about today's beautiful late Spring, balmy weather. The gardens are blooming, the clouds are whisping across a crystal blue sky, and a strong breeze carries the aroma of a dozen barbecues, mixed with honeysuckle, this late afternoon.
I hope you and Minnie share a cozy breakfast in front of the waning fire.
Have a nice hot cup of tea, for us, your great good friends and fans in the other hemisphere.
Calli |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 199
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 4:36 pm: |
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Well, of course it's a pigsty now - it's barely morning, David is sleeping and Minnie's weeing on the firewood inside...!!! 
I kinda fingured it was snowing 'up top' because all the muscles down my back spasmed as I went to see why Minnie was crying a litle while ago. I can't work out if they go out in sympathy with hers or just because I'm so unfit. Anyway cold affects them badly.
Just checked the snow report for Thredbo, another ski resort just northeast of here (where the landslide was about 8 years ago)- very cold there too, and windy. Here is def the place to be! (First time in years, it seems, Barry isn't with us on the long weekend. Miss him. He's been quiet too - have you heard anything?) |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 201
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 9:56 pm: |
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Hi Calli
Your message arrived after I posted to Nancy, so please forgive my seeming indifference!!
The day here is now clear and blue; merely long-sleeved weather not really enough for sweaters (we'd call them 'jumpers', or 'pullovers' which I think to you are a kind of dress). As long as my feet are wrm, I'm warm so i'm going to do some heavy weeding in my garden, ripping stcks fo that potato vine mentioned on another thread. Min is happily sunning herself on the doorstep, catching some western sun (front door faces westerly and she's now in prime position to doze warmly for several hours until it gets too weak for thorough cat-warmth). She's been feeling quite nimble this weekend end, having slept in most of her favourite places with open windows and soft breezes, cool jazz playing and cooking aromas drifting through the house and bucketloads of sun-warmed laundry fresh off the line folded on the bed to shed fur on  . Temperature here has risen about 2.5 degrees int he last few hours, so it's just under 11 degrees C. You'd prbably class it as early spring weather.
I'll see if I can find a url with some kind of live feed or action shots of snow action this weekend at Falls. |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 203
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 11:01 pm: |
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http://www.fallscreek.com.au/report/Default.asp
This link will give you weather and snow cams - apparently there's only snow play and inside stuff just now as there's a windstorm so the lifts can't operate, and not enough cover for cross-country skiing yet. Still, it sounds sounds like a fun start to the season.
I've trimmed lvender bushes, raked heaps of fallen quinces, harvested grapefruit for the Salvation Army and played with the cat outside (we think she played Jungle Min but we're not allowed to know for sure). Time for lunch now...and a Star Trek epidsode to go with it, maybe (to keep David happy) |
Calliope
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Username: Calliope
Post Number: 374
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 7:40 am: |
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Joanne,
Love the weather cam! We are rubbing the sleep from our eyes and the sun is about to set on the snow there.
Hope you and Jungle Min---the great hunter, had a lovely Sunday. I just had my second cup of coffee on the patio----so serene,only sound is the bird song at this hour (wait a little bit and the ubiquitous leaf blowers and lawnmowers will fill the air)
Calli |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 205
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 9:41 am: |
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For some odd reason, we hardly hear leaf blowers any more...used to hear them lots then about a year or so ago they just - well, seemed to die out. People are using rakes again. I kinda feel guilty the few times I use ours.
It's almost zero degrees C - I checked out a site to convert the two temperature scales easily, Calli, as I am not a maths person. It seems that when you have 40 degrees (or maybe 45), I have around 10 to 13 (I think). Your 97-ish is my 40-ish, very hot summer day. I love how a dry zero in either scale can feel crisp rather than disgustingly bone-chilling. Apparently zero in either scale is still when water will freeze in normal conditions.
Well, I'm off to bed now having snoozed in front of the TV for long enough: SVU and Criminal Intent, then on to Alain de Boutton and beauty in buildings. I blame it on David and Min - one kept running off to check downloads and wouldn't talk, the other kept snoring in front of the fire! |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 4984
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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post some pictures of the snow! |
Joanne G
Citizen
Username: Joanne
Post Number: 206
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 5:41 pm: |
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Buzzsaw, it doesn't snow where I live which is why I posted the link above which has the snowcam. We're just below the snowline and along the Murray River grazing lands. About an hour to the west of us the grazing lands become the Murray Irrigation Area where they grze sheep and also grow rice in terraced river flats. And an hour or so west of that you reach rich and traditional orange and grape growing regions that are winter-warm spots.
On the other hand it did reach minus 5 degrees C at 4 am here today!! |
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