brrr. The weather here in Melbourne is pretty much exactly what the weather in Ireland would be — ie. cold:
Sure this was the second day of summer, but instead of worrying about bush fires, I decided to get the home fires burning again.
After all, it was a shivery 14 degrees – the average maximum of a day in June, not December.
I know that Melbourne’s weather is meant to be changeable, but could we be kidding ourselves when we say that December is summer?
Last December, when the average maximum was an unusually warm 26.2 degrees, there were no fewer than eight 30-degree days, while January turned out to be one of the hottest months ever experienced in Melbourne with 14 occurrences of above 30 degrees.
You have to go back to 1879 to find a December when the thermometer waited until the middle of the month before cracking 30 degrees.