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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 181868" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A quick stop-press about winter here in Australia. I know I said it never snows in Sydney, never has in the history of recorded weather; but last week while we were away, it 'snowed' in the northern suburbs. The weather bureau insisted it was actually a very large amount of small hail, which still hadn't melted hours later. Kids were tobogganning...</p><p>And this afternoon we had a very dark sky with a thunderstorm, not much rain but VERY dark. husband heard someone on the radio telephone in. "I'm from Canada, and it's snowing at Mt Ousley. And there's no way it's 'small hail' - I'm Canadian, we KNOW about snow!"</p><p>I haven't seen any news, but snow at Mt Ousley is almost as impossible as snow at Sydney Opera House! Mt Ousley is little more than a hill, a coastal cliff that husband drives along every weekend to his coastal train track.</p><p></p><p>OK, NOW I believe that it's cold. AND the weather is totally fouled up!</p><p></p><p>Bizarre!</p><p></p><p>PS I just had to update - I decided to do a search on it for news, and I found gold - the local paper has covered it on their website. Yes,s they're calling it "small hail" and the sound on the slide show seems to bear this out, but it sure LOOKS like snow! Folks, this is very close to us, about half an hour as the crow flies. On the coast. And you can see Mt Ousley in the slide show - it's the flat mesa-looking 'peak' the traffic is winding along. And the other suburbs mentioned - they're down on the coastal flat. This precipitation was right down at sea level.</p><p></p><p>The sound effect - yep, that's what it sounded like (without the clatter/patter, at our house). ONly we had more thunder.</p><p></p><p>It should cool down your summer heat for you!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 181868, member: 1991"] A quick stop-press about winter here in Australia. I know I said it never snows in Sydney, never has in the history of recorded weather; but last week while we were away, it 'snowed' in the northern suburbs. The weather bureau insisted it was actually a very large amount of small hail, which still hadn't melted hours later. Kids were tobogganning... And this afternoon we had a very dark sky with a thunderstorm, not much rain but VERY dark. husband heard someone on the radio telephone in. "I'm from Canada, and it's snowing at Mt Ousley. And there's no way it's 'small hail' - I'm Canadian, we KNOW about snow!" I haven't seen any news, but snow at Mt Ousley is almost as impossible as snow at Sydney Opera House! Mt Ousley is little more than a hill, a coastal cliff that husband drives along every weekend to his coastal train track. OK, NOW I believe that it's cold. AND the weather is totally fouled up! Bizarre! PS I just had to update - I decided to do a search on it for news, and I found gold - the local paper has covered it on their website. Yes,s they're calling it "small hail" and the sound on the slide show seems to bear this out, but it sure LOOKS like snow! Folks, this is very close to us, about half an hour as the crow flies. On the coast. And you can see Mt Ousley in the slide show - it's the flat mesa-looking 'peak' the traffic is winding along. And the other suburbs mentioned - they're down on the coastal flat. This precipitation was right down at sea level. The sound effect - yep, that's what it sounded like (without the clatter/patter, at our house). ONly we had more thunder. It should cool down your summer heat for you! Marg [/QUOTE]
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