I saw a story a week or two ago about why Sydney experiences such changeable weather in spring. I mentioned this here as well at the beginning of October – how we seem to have hot days and cold days interleaved, and a mild or pleasantly warm day is a rare thing. The article explained it in terms of the prevailing weather systems at this time of year, how hot air masses from the tropical north compete by pushing south against cold Antarctic air masses from the south, and they see-saw back and forth, giving us alternating periods of hot and cold weather. It’s different in autumn, when we generally have a pleasant gradation of days from the heat of summer into the cool of winter.
Anyway, yeah. Just two days ago we had the hot, with temperatures over 36°C in parts of Sydney. Whereas today the maximum was just 16.1°C, and with strong winds that pushed the wind chill temperature as low as 7°C as I looked at when I took Scully out for her lunch time walk today. We’re going to have this cold again tomorrow, but the forecast is warming over the weekend and up to 32°C on the coast and 36°C in inland suburbs again by Monday.
I had 5 ethics classes today. And took Scully for a drive at lunch, to drop off some extra cold weather clothing for my wife at her office after she messaged me in the middle of the day to say she needed it. After dropping that off, I took Scully to the Italian bakery at Cammeray for lunch. Normally I sit on a bench nearby to eat, but it was so cold and windy that I retreated with Scully and broke one of my strongest taboos: I sat and ate in the car. I never do this. I think I’ve eaten food in my car maybe twice in my life – I vaguely recall doing it once about 20 years ago.
I actually feel ashamed now.
New content today:
Temperature here (New York) went from a high of something like 10C to more like 25C in one day. It’s supposed to be higher tomorrow.