Random thoughts and observations
I took this picture with my mobile phone today while walking past the West Beach Primary School.
I’m neither a botanist nor an ornithologist, but the birds are some type of parrot and I guess the bush is a bottlebrush.
I’ll mention too the weather has been remarkably cool for Adelaide in February over the past week.
I have just completed my first full year of living in Adelaide, summer was milder than I expected and the weather data backs that up.
I thought the year was wetter than normal, but total rainfall was slightly below average after a couple of dry months to finish the year.
Highest maximum: 42.9 on January 31
Lowest maximum: 11.4 or July 12
The Bureau of Meteorology provides an excellent service, but in the online space has been rather dowdy in its presentation. The plain-text Courier font has been the official style for many years now. Frankly, it looks dull and has possibly driven many web users to commercial sites that present the same data more attractively. The bureau is now moving with the times and is about to unveil a new look and more detail with its South Australian forecasts.
It’s hovering around 15 degrees in Adelaide today, but there hasn’t been as much rain as originally forecast. I have a feeling this will be the last cool day until April next year.
Adelaide has been wet this month, with 110mm of rain so far. Apparently it’s the wettest August in 18 years and the coldest winter for 13 years. Having spent nine years in the sub-alpine region of Victoria and two years in Mount Gambier, I can’t say I’ve noticed the cold, but the rainfall is hard [...]
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