I feel so much better now...

[highlyeccentric]

Please, Sydney people, keep bitching about how cold it is, and how you have your heaters on and your fingers are freezing. Please, keep talking. It makes me feel so much better about myself and my minimal cold-tolerance, what with the fact that it's eight degrees colder here and I only just turned the heater on two hours ago. It's on low. MWAHAHAH.

In other news, morning showers are now out, lest my hair freeze on my head. So let's see if I can even manage to wake up in the mornings from hereon in...

(Huh. I just checked the Sydney and surrounds data... looks like it's pretty bloody cold at home right now. Under ten degrees at Williamtown. I can't remember if it's usually colder at the base than at home. It's hotter in summer... Also, my parents have a FIRE. And I do not. No sympathy for them!)

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[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I'm finally properly warm, how's that for bitching?

...

OH. I guess pulling the blinds and stopping air escaping out the door helped.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

CAN DO. And it's ever so nice to have permission, because, honestly, I think I'm discovering that there are few things in this world that will really keep me from whinging. MY LIFE IS SO HAAARD, AMMMMYYYY.

And, dude, shower caps. Because hot showers on cold mornings are teh shiz.

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

Is that ten degrees in proper temperature or crazy temperature? 'Cause ten degrees c sounds just about right.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Ten degrees c. It's not "just about right" you crazy woman, it's fifteen degrees TOO COLD.

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

You mean you like twenty five degrees? Madwoman. I'd melt into a little puddle of sweat, it'd be terrible.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

.. twenty five degrees is comfortable. Thirty is pleasantly warm, frolic on the beach kind of weather. At thirty-five, we MIGHT turn the air-conditioning on. At forty, we concede that it's bloody hot.

Personally, I was quite happy with forty degrees in Canberra. No humidity! It was brilliant :D. Only then it hit forty-four and I got heatstroke because without humidity I didn't register how hot it was.

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

Forty degrees! Christ on a bike. These days it occasionally gets over thirty, on those rare years where we actually have a summer lasting more than an afternoon. Forty degrees is unheard of. But I do hear the humidity's got a lot to do with how tolerable or otherwise the heat is.

Under about four degrees is wearing a coat weather. From there to, say, ten degrees is a jumper. Over ten is just a t-shirt, and over fifteen is uncomfortably sticky. You can tell if it hits twenty because I spend twice as long as usual at the shops, leaning over an open freezer and grinning moronically. And around about twenty two I start spending my days totally naked with the window open, flopped on the bed and sleeping through the heat because being awake and aware of it is horrible.

...I'm built for the Arctic, aren't I?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Put it this way: some years ago, Britain had a heatwave. It got as far as thirty-five. We pissed ourselves laughing. It was winter at the time, and there were places in Australia where it was STILL thirty degrees.

As far as I'm concerned, anything under 20 is 'cool' and under 15 is 'cold'. Ten and under is BLOODY HELL GET ME OUT OF HERE. This is... problematic, as the temperature in Canberra is not going to get above 17 for the next five months.

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

Thirty five with the humidity we get here is not pleasant, to say the least. It's not so much the temperature as the constant stickiness that gets you down.

And I shall be sure to return the favour and laugh at you if you ever complain in the least about being cold. :P

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

... We can probably pwn you on humidity, too. Canberra's got nuffin in the way of humidity, but how about the mid-north coast? kayloulee spends her summers under a blanket of 85-95 relative humidity. AND temperatures up to and over 40 degrees.

... I overheated on my walk to work this morning. Apparently five layers was overkill for ten degrees with no windchill factor.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

So, in short, despite the fact that it is legal to grow pot here (but not to BUY it. no one knows how you're supposed to get your plant, and clearly the police don't ask), you don't want to live in Canberra. We have a temperature range from as low as -5 in winter to +45 in summer.

[tea-fiend.livejournal.com]

I believe the phrase I'm after here is "do not want!"

According to my google weather thingy, it's currently six degrees out. A bit nippy, but quite nice for a late night walk to the shops for biscuits, I reckon.