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Post by greysrigging on Aug 8, 2022 23:17:58 GMT -5
constant overcast and damp bitter skin penetrating cold in winter, extremely boring with no variety, extremely boring temps. Here's a forecast for the entire fucking winter.... 6/14C mostly cloudy with a shower or two you can literally go 1/3 of the year without seeing 20C Submild crummers with very cold lows, heat lasts 1-2 days followed by 2 weeks of 19-22C cloudy boring ass southerly cancer, and fuck all storms. Constant heat and storm murdering seabreezes (shitbreezes, semenbreezes etc if you will), and sneaky unforecasted backdoor(sluts 9) fronts that often sneak up from the subarctic ocean whenever there is interesting heat. Melbourne's crummers are flat out London with a couple of hot days. You basically just described the Bay Area's climate lol. Though thankfully the climate here is sunnier and more stable. I think people's perception of their own climate depends heavily on the climates around them. Jho implied that basically anywhere else in Australia is warmer. So people in Melbourne complain that their winters are very cold. However, the Bay Area is just as cold as Melbourne, but the winters are warmer than most places in America. So people in the Bay Area have a mentality of "it could be much worse." Melbourne in 2019.....bi polar madness !  |
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Post by fairweatherfan on Aug 8, 2022 23:23:35 GMT -5
You basically just described the Bay Area's climate lol. Though thankfully the climate here is sunnier and more stable. I think people's perception of their own climate depends heavily on the climates around them. Jho implied that basically anywhere else in Australia is warmer. So people in Melbourne complain that their winters are very cold. However, the Bay Area is just as cold as Melbourne, but the winters are warmer than most places in America. So people in the Bay Area have a mentality of "it could be much worse." Melbourne in 2019.....bi polar madness ! Yikes, people's doors must get stuck all the time |
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Post by cawfeefan on Aug 8, 2022 23:45:15 GMT -5
It might be because whenever the weather is bad here, people say things like "ughh Melbourne weather" as if our weather is unique, which then perpetuates the stereotype that our climate is really bad. I feel like shitting on the climate has become part of our city's identity, whether you actually agree with it or not. I take it that people mainly complain about the winters? Yeah I would say so, but they also complain about our summers if they are lacklustre. I think during the 2020/21 'summer', we had something like half our days not reaching 22C, and our averages were only bumped up by a few hot days. |
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Post by fairweatherfan on Aug 9, 2022 0:18:04 GMT -5
I must concede that Melbourne's climate leaves a lot to be desired. It might not be the worst climate, but it's a really good climate for complaining about the weather  |
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Post by psychedamike24 on Aug 9, 2022 22:56:06 GMT -5
I would imagine AC accessibility, hot season nighttime temperatures, and hot season dew points are pretty important in determining summer weather preferences.
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Post by paddy234 on Aug 12, 2022 4:29:20 GMT -5
Melbourne in 2019.....bi polar madness ! Yikes, people's doors must get stuck all the time That's insane. Like a more extreme version of Christchurch. It's crazy that one day is 42°C and the next is 21°C. I find climates like this hard to like due to it being so changeable. Your body wouldn't get used to any consistent heat. |
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Post by CRISPR on Jan 28, 2024 16:33:01 GMT -5
I am growing up around 33-35ºS, about 150ºE; and this latitude reduces my cold resistance alot- I have never experienced temps below 2ºC! Also, despite occasionally experiencing extreme heat, summers are warm and not too muggy considering out position near the warm East Australian current. Hence, my heat resistance is average; and I have grown to like sunny climates (~ 3000 hours annually). However, I do respect short, intense precipitation (downpours and t-storms) over drizzle. Unlike many Aussies, I am mixed-blood, so I don't get sunburnt easily
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