Happy first day of summer everybody!!

[lewisnotmiller]

Two points from me...

1) You guys measure 'summer' from the solstice? Is that widespread? We would typically name it based on the month (with summer being Dec - Jan - Feb).
2) You can take your warm sun and shove it straight up your jacksies. It's cold here. And I'm planning to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge next week for the lulz, and it's sure as heck going to be cold there too.

 

[Quagmire]

Two points from me...

1) You guys measure 'summer' from the solstice? Is that widespread?

June 21st, the Solstice, has always been counted as the first day of summer where I am

We would typically name it based on the month (with summer being Dec - Jan - Feb).
2) You can take your warm sun and shove it straight up your jacksies. It's cold here. And I'm planning to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge next week for the lulz,

What are you going to do that for?

 

[Stevicus]

Two points from me...

1) You guys measure 'summer' from the solstice? Is that widespread? We would typically name it based on the month (with summer being Dec - Jan - Feb).
2) You can take your warm sun and shove it straight up your jacksies. It's cold here. And I'm planning to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge next week for the lulz, and it's sure as heck going to be cold there too.

It's always started on the solstice, at least in America.

I never thought of Australia as being that cold. Sydney is on the same latitude south (33.8688° S) as Los Angeles is north (34.0522° N), where people still go to the beach in wintertime. Melbourne is about the equivalent of San Francisco, which also has fairly mild winters. A bit chilly but nothing too severe, not like upper Canada or the North Central U.S.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

It's always started on the solstice, at least in America.

I never thought of Australia as being that cold. Sydney is on the same latitude south (33.8688° S) as Los Angeles is north (34.0522° N), where people still go to the beach in wintertime. Melbourne is about the equivalent of San Francisco, which also has fairly mild winters. A bit chilly but nothing too severe, not like upper Canada or the North Central U.S.

Such things are relative, though.

Today's top temp was 12 degrees where I live. About 54 in American. It's not exactly mid-winter Alaska...lol

But it ain't warm. We don't have protective landmasses between us and the Antarctic, so a southerly wind in Melbourne can be bitter, and the rain can be cold. Plus it's hot in summer...gets up around 108 or so. So it's not like we are acclimatised to the cold year around.

It's probably the best argument that there's a God. He's given us crap winters to keep us humble.

Edit : the latitude thing is misleading. Auckland in NZ lines up pretty well with Sydney, but it has mild winters and pleasant summers. Sydney is a little more humid, and more extreme in Summer, and rains way more than people think.

 

[Revoltingest]

Dang...days are getting shorter.
Before ya know it, leaves will fall, & snow will be shoveled.
But then spring!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Damm, I thought Mungo Jerry....

 

[Stevicus]

Such things are relative, though.

Today's top temp was 12 degrees where I live. About 54 in American. It's not exactly mid-winter Alaska...lol

But it ain't warm. We don't have protective landmasses between us and the Antarctic, so a southerly wind in Melbourne can be bitter, and the rain can be cold. Plus it's hot in summer...gets up around 108 or so. So it's not like we are acclimatised to the cold year around.

It's probably the best argument that there's a God. He's given us crap winters to keep us humble.

Edit : the latitude thing is misleading. Auckland in NZ lines up pretty well with Sydney, but it has mild winters and pleasant summers. Sydney is a little more humid, and more extreme in Summer, and rains way more than people think.

We get some chilly winters where I live, and it even snows on occasion, though that only lasts for a few days while most of the winter is pretty mild. There's also plenty of mountains where it gets freezing and snowy. People in L.A. would say that they could go skiing one day and then suntan on the beach the next.

I lived in the Northeastern U.S. when I was a kid, and I recall a few times when it got to 20 or 30 below zero. (Fun fact: 40 below zero is the same in both Fahrenheit and Centigrade.)