To me, Sunday seemed like the first genuine day of spring. Warm enough to ditch the jumper and walk around in a t-shirt most of the day. No hint of rain. The sun streaming (on and off) through the window. (So much so that I do believe I may even have a slight sunburn on my neck.)
I suspect some of the events of the last few months have left me a little down, but whatever the reason, I am very pleased to see the spring.
It’s probably my imagination, but it seems like it’s been a long cold winter. It hasn’t really; the BoM statistics indicate that mean temperatures this year have been pretty close to those recorded in the last thirty years. Though notably, August was colder than usual.
| Mean max | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-2010 | 21.0 | 17.5 | 14.8 | 14.2 | 15.7 |
| 2010 | 22.9 | 18.2 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 14.7 |
| Mean min | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
| 1981-2010 | 11.8 | 9.8 | 7.9 | 7.1 | 7.8 |
| 2010 | 14.5 | 9.8 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 7.6 |
Anyway, Sunday was a very pleasant change. Well, apart from the fact that I spotted two mosquitoes in the house.
One reply on “Spring is here”
Yeah, according to the channel 2 weather-person, Sunday was the first day in 140-odd days that the temperature reached 20.