Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[vehve]

cwrite, you've become a wuss. 16 is shorts and t-shirt weather.

 

[cwrite]

cwrite, you've become a wuss. 16 is shorts and t-shirt weather.

You're right, I have.

Perhaps it's adaptive to cope with 30C+ & 70-80's humidity. It's going to be funny taking my kids back for a visit - they don't remember how cold it was.

 

[vehve]

Haha, they're in for a shock.

 

[satay]

That gives a whole new definition to the term "moving house". 

It must be horrible to suddenly wake up to find your house has become a house boat, you practically loose everything. I hope no people have been hurt. The most rainwater I've seen accumulate in the street was about 6-7 years ago when the center of Helsinki had about a foot of water floating around, luckily it drained away in a matter of hours. It was pretty surreal to walk around in knee deep water. That kind of things make you think twice about the foundation and location of your house.

Unfortunately 3 people lost their lives when there house was washed away.. Pictures reminded me of the floods up here in 2011. Sad to see it happening again elsewhere.

 

[satay]

cwrite, you've become a wuss. 16 is shorts and t-shirt weather.

it's so not. I'm with cwrite. The air was so cold yesterday. This mornings start is a little cooler than yesterday. When we have 40+ summer temps those temps are horrid I told sam yesterday I would be wearing thermos if I was down there and I don't think they make anything that could keep me warm enough to visit fancy

 

[satay]

Haha, they're in for a shock.

My teenage son asked me to ask you where you are in finland. Apparently some parts have weeks of no sunlight , I think he said and he wanted to know if that is where you lived?

 

[IamSamSam]

 

[Kooka]

Are you OK?

 

[Fancychooklady]

it's so not. I'm with cwrite. The air was so cold yesterday. This mornings start is a little cooler than yesterday. When we have 40+ summer temps those temps are horrid I told sam yesterday I would be wearing thermos if I was down there and I don't think they make anything that could keep me warm enough to visit fancy

Yeah, yeah I know it's not for everyone but no one does autumn like tassie.

 

[vehve]

Quote: I live in Kirkkonummi, which is on the Southern coast, about 30 km west of Helsinki, the capital city. We only get down to about 5 hours of light in mid winter, and in midsummer, the sun only sets for about 5 hours. Today, the day will be 15h 11min long here.

Utsjoki, which is about as up north as you can get (it's just shy of the 70th parallel north) will have sunset on November 27th, and then they won't have another sunrise until January 17th. Then the day will slowly get longer, until May 18th when after sunrise it won't set before July 28th. Up there in the northern parts you will get awfully cold winters, with record colds below -50C. On the other hand, due to the long days in summer, they also enjoy a very nice summer, +25C isn't uncommon, and record highs are somewhere in the +32C range.