It’s only mid-October, and already the hot weather has arrived. Yesterday the maximum temperature was 35º. Today it’s predicted to be 38º. I want my pleasant spring days back!
[Coily the Evil Sprite]No Springs! hee hee hee[/CtES]
Cirse you Southern-Hemisphereans with your broad open spring-enhanced lands, refuges far around the round earth, refuges that give shelter to Spring when she flees Canada, driven by the grinding grey bulk of Winter that obtrudes over our northern horizon, heralded by the dreaded cold rains of November…
sob
Well, can you please send some of those dreaded cold rains our way Sunspace? We’re very badly drought-stricken and I **loathe ** the heat.
One degree above freezing and wet? Be glad to send some your way, when it arrives in a few weeks. 
(Right now it’s superbly-beautiful fall weather: brisk, almost frosty in the mornings, with the brilliant leaf colours standing out against the pale-blue sky.
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Odd, it’s about the same up here. Maybe a few degrees warmer, but still, very, very similiar, temperature-wise.
Oh wait, did he mean degrees celsius? I was talkin’ farenheit. 
It’s pretty warm here but not quite as hot as Sydney… I want to know why we’ve gone straight to bushfire season.
Well, of course I’m talking about degrees celsius, Athena. It’s 30 years since we’ve used those antiquated farenheit things.
World-wide political ill winds are the cause.
Mother Nature is not a happy camper.