It’s cold. 4C. Coldest morning this year.
Literally not a cloud, not the merest breathe of a breeze.
Middle of school winter holidays so the commuter belt is somnolent.
The Traffic Management centre reports that the only incident across the whole Sydney metropolitan area is one set of lights flashing yellow.
Things can only get better.
Sounds like a perfect Sydney winter’s day. Wish I was there.
Meanwhile, our minimum in Canberra this morning was -6 C. At least there is no wind, so easy to keep reasonably warm.
I’m so over the cold that I am seriously thinking of moving north…to Darwin, Cairns or Broome.
So bloody miserable down here.
Yeah, #firstworldproblems indeed.
“Good Morning Bruces and Sheilas, this is your morning forecast for the Sydney area. Traffic is looking good, temps are low enough to keep your stubbies cool. There are no reports of jellyfish or red-backs, Sharks are minimal with spikes of activity around midday in the Manly area. There is a 50% chance of light snake in the Botanical Gardens later on and Crocs are currently low-to-scary…have a bonzer day!”
There’s always someone to spoil your whinge. 
Just fuck off with your good news story Novelty Bobble. Leave us Aussies to bemoan our horrid fates. 
I’m going to whisper this quietly but…the family and I were in Cairns over Easter and it was roundly pronounced as the best place ever, we had a wonderful time.
We had the threat of Cyclone Iris but the weather was lovely for our stay and we still managed to do everything. WE SWAM WITH A SODDING TURTLE FFS!
You have a wonderful and occasionally deadly country.
Cairns? CAIRNS?? You lucky bastids.
JFTR, people who live in southern Aus can’t actually afford to have a holiday in Cairns. It’s cheaper for us to fly to Bali or Phuket for our vacations. That’s why FNQ will be full of Asian folk holidaying HERE while Aussies fly over THERE. 
We did consider extending our stay and flying down to Sydney for a few days but, as you rightly point out, the flights were very expensive.
I will never know quite how flight pricing works. We priced up our flights UK- Hong Kong and were originally just going to go there (with Cathay Pacific). When we looked a bit further into it we realised we could include Cairns into our plans for the grand total of an extra £10 each, it would have been silly not to. (and we are very glad we did)
Is that a town…or a body part? :eek:
Sounds idyllic.
I love right around freezing. Here in Wisconsin (in the US), our winter temps usually sit around -20 C (Between -10 and -30 is a fairly common range.) So 0? 4? -6? Sounds wonderful. Peaceful.
Reading the OP – cold, 4C, winter holidays – I had to check the posting date. Yesterday! WTF? It’s the middle of summer and hotter than hell!
Aha! It’s those peculiar folks who walk around upside down on the bottom of the earth. No really, you do. Look up (down, actually) at the moon sometime. It’s upside down compared to the way it’s supposed to look. I can get it to look the same way, but only by standing on my head, which is kind of my point.
But you do have a fine country, with fine wines and gorgeous women, spoiled only by the fact that it’s all upside down and the seasons are at exactly the wrong time of year. But your winters are milder than ours, probably because it’s really actually supposed to be summer, so quit bitchin’. Also, you have disgusting scary giant spiders.
Oh, but contraire!
It’s only portrayed the way you think by convention because any equally feasible alternative would have melted the minds of the same poor deluded shower who put Galileo before the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition for heresy.
One day, when I was in Sydney in July, 1984, one day’s high was 8. The checker at the supermarket tried to buy the spring-weight coat off my back. They said it was only the second day of the century that the temp had not broken 10. You guys are wusses. Of course, I live in a place where -30 is not unknown (although not common either). It was 25 here today, but a week ago 35.
