winter
By Northern Hemisphere standards Melbourne’s winters are not harsh, but they are damp and cool. A prototypical Melbourne winter’s day would be like: low of 8°C, top of 14°C, southerly wind of 15–25km/hr making it feel like 10°C at the warmest point of the day. Partially cloudy, a shower or two, 0–2mm of rain expected. We do get nastier days than that, too. Overall I find our winters bleak and miserable and every time we reach that point in August where the days start to noticeably lengthen, it’s like a dark cloud has lifted off my shoulders.
Posts
- : ☔️ The Winter Blues: Seasonal depression has been kicking my butt lately. And by “lately”, I mean the last two months, I guess, …
- : 🏘 Micro post: The complete failure of Australia’s housing stock to be appropriate for living in during winter is in the news …
- : 🏝 Photo post: Viv got me to walk on the beach with him today, and I guess I feel good for having got the exercise, but MAN the weather …
- : 🌧 Micro post: The weather for the past three days has been absolutely terribad, but this year at least I’ve outsmarted it: two …
- : 🌧 Hot Weather People and Cold Weather People: One of the most fundamental divides in humanity is clearly the one between “hot weather people” and …
- : 🧺 Laundry in Winter: A couple of years ago, I think, I put out a tweet that went along the lines of, “So sick of hanging out the same …
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Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.