The start of it...

[spudfan]

Had our first hint of snow today, more to come. It was bitterly cold with a strong biting wind, so the wind chill factor was high. I got the full measure of the wind chill when I "answered the call of nature". Owing to the wind chill the less said about "measurement" the better.[bigwhistle], The third photo shows my "recuperation"....

[V8Ian]

Lovely pictures, that's about as close as I want to get to snow.

[Chops]

Nice.

What were you actually doing outside there,, looks like you were on a lunch break (?)

[trog]

The only good thing I can remember of snow and cold is that going for a walk the morning after a big night , was that it cured a hangover better than a handful of aspirin !
Looks nice in pictures though.

[spudfan]

Nice.

What were you actually doing outside there,, looks like you were on a lunch break (?)
Foodstop during the walk.

[V8Ian]

The only good thing I can remember of snow and cold is that going for a walk the morning after a big night , was that it cured a hangover better than a handful of aspirin !
Looks nice in pictures though.


Foodstop during the walk.
Wow! That must've been a cracker of a hang-over. [bigrolf]

[trog]

Mis spent life 🍺

[Chops]

Foodstop during the walk.


A "walk",,, you went for a walk so long you took food??? :eek2:

[spudfan]

A "walk",,, you went for a walk so long you took food??? :eek2:
Yep, do it regularly. This was planned, the snow was a bonus.

[jonesfam]

48 degrees here at the moment.
Snow is NOT predicted.

Jonesfam

[Ausfree]

Lovely pictures, that's about as close as I want to get to snow.
You and me both, Ian. I'm allergic to snow, last saw it down at the Snowy in the 1980's and had enough of it to last a lifetime.:thumbsdown:

[trog]

Last year of uni I applied for a job on the highway snow plow and salter crew. On standby , but as the snow that year was so light I didn't get a hour in. Would have been fun to run down the road in a Flying V pushing snow , and the stray car out of the way. A flat mate had this gig and said it was great fun.

[JDNSW]

I got back from Houston, Texas, a week ago. While I was there for a month visiting my brother I hardly ever wore a jacket or even long sleeved shirt. Yesterday he sent me a photo showing his front yard covered in snow!

[rick130]

A good friend sent me a photo from northern Germany a few weeks ago with their first snow fall.
She's actually missing Canberra weather!!

[Fifth Columnist]

I got back from Houston, Texas, a week ago. While I was there for a month visiting my brother I hardly ever wore a jacket or even long sleeved shirt. Yesterday he sent me a photo showing his front yard covered in snow!
Houston's on the same latitude as the Sahara....

[JDNSW]

Big difference between Australia and North America - Australia is insulated from the polar ice cap by thousands of kilometres of water, which, while not exactly warm, is guaranteed to be above freezing. In North America, there is no such insulation - land or ice all the way to the North Pole, and the surface can quite rapidly get well below freezing given a few days of NW wind.

The Sahara is insulated by the Mediterranean, but even so it can get pretty cold in winter, even occasionally snow in the northern part I believe, although rarely enough moisture when it is cold enough.

And Australian deserts get very cold, but never snow, as far as I know.

[loanrangie]

Big difference between Australia and North America - Australia is insulated from the polar ice cap by thousands of kilometres of water, which, while not exactly warm, is guaranteed to be above freezing. In North America, there is no such insulation - land or ice all the way to the North Pole, and the surface can quite rapidly get well below freezing given a few days of NW wind.

The Sahara is insulated by the Mediterranean, but even so it can get pretty cold in winter, even occasionally snow in the northern part I believe, although rarely enough moisture when it is cold enough.

And Australian deserts get very cold, but never snow, as far as I know.

Atlas mountains in Morocco see snow.