Macedonian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:34 am
La Nina is just evening up the score for all of the relentless above average temps and droughty El Nino years. Only three years ago the whole of eastern Australia was baking and burning up.
Give me the cool and damp any day.
Agreed, anything is better than bushfire conditions. But as I'm often required to work outdoors, regardless of the weather (hence my keen interest in it
), the last few days have been wearing a little thin ... Blown off my feet twice yesterday, and had numb and useless fingers for about 10 minutes following one particularly violent sleet/snowstorm - despite wearing some pretty hi-tech gloves and full winter kit.
This pic from yesterday was taken at only 500m asl - pretty impressive for 21 November! Colder & snowier at my place 120m higher.
Meanwhile, one local farmer I chatted to the other day told me he is almost out of time to get his potato crop in - his main source of income. And obviously the flood damage to infrastructure, homes and property is far and wide. So yes, this weather is way better than heat and drought, but not without its costs.