Thread: The start of it...

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.

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!

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!!

Originally Posted by 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!

Houston's on the same latitude as the Sahara....

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.