21 days to go!! It’s officially winter…

Today is the first day of winter for us as we are in the Southern Hemisphere. Our winter in Australia covers the months of June, July and August.

But winter can be quite a different experience, depending on where you live in the world. Here in Perth, our winters feel more like a early spring or late autumn in England. I remember as a child winters in the north of England, when the town we lived in would be cut off by snow for several days. We had to dress up in so many layers of clothes to keep warm outside when we made snowmen, or had running snowball battles through the school yard.

That seems so long ago now when on a chilly winter’s day here, sometimes you have to put an extra jumper on over your t-shirt.

Evenings and nights are getting a bit chilly now, but as yet I haven’t had to get the gas heater out of the shed. But the days are still quite nice, apart from yesterday’s torrential downpour for The Big Perth Freeze (see yesterday’s blog). Just to give you an idea, I have been wearing a fleecy jacket most days to catch the train to work in the morning, but pretty much every day I have been working in a short-sleeved shirt all day.

Here is a chart of the weather we have had for the last 2 weeks. Nice, isn’t it?

Forecast:

For more details, go to Western Australian Bureau of Meteorology