Good riddance, HOT summer of 2011! (season, humidity, degrees, month)
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You can tell the locals here, and this is just on the outskirts of Newie in the Lower Hunter - they have no shirt on once it gets over about 22C!
Hence, that is just about the whole of summer, and sometimes even in winter.
Worst place I ever saw for this was in the Rockingham-Mandurah area of WA, just south of Perth.
That, along with no shoes on - so their feet are obviously impervious to being burned on the hot pavement.
The Gold Coast is similarly renowned for bogans, but they seem to put clothes on.
One would hope that they are very-tanned as well,
else they'd be doing a lot of burn-peel, burn-peel...
I actually like that Australians feel free to go sleeveless, shirtless or shoeless FAR more frequently than Canadians and Americans. This is something that bothers you?
I can easily walk on bitumen barefoot around 30 C on a cloudless summer day.
I generally prefer thongs though as there's no telling what you might be stepping on.
Kids in SW Oz?!?
I saw them walking to school,
most of them in short sleeves and/or shorts.
Car thermometer read 10.5 -11.5 C (51-53 F) at 7:30am
but it was sunny with sunshine at about a 15-20 degree angle already.
Still... Brrr!!!
Maybe Aussie kids try to be tough about the cold,
or they knew they wouldn't be outside for very long???
Might just be their school uniforms. I feel sorry for the kids around here who I see walking to school in shorts and t-shirts on frosty winter mornings. A lot of schools probably don't give them any other option.
Might just be their school uniforms. I feel sorry for the kids around here who I see walking to school in shorts and t-shirts on frosty winter mornings. A lot of schools probably don't give them any other option.
Some are barefoot as well. It makes me feel cold just seeing kids like that on frosty mornings. We weren't allowed to wear long trousers at school, but I can't remember ever thinking about it at the time. Trying to get our kids to wear a jersey to school on cold mornings is a major mission.
Might just be their school uniforms. I feel sorry for the kids around here who I see walking to school in shorts and t-shirts on frosty winter mornings. A lot of schools probably don't give them any other option.
Yeah, but most of them weren't wearing a jumper or jacket
and the ones that were were wearing shorts.
Do Australian mothers dress their kids for the calendar, not the actual weather?
September 1st counts as spring here,
but all I see are longer days,
higher sun and slightly less rain and cold-snaps.
As I passed by those kids,
I was reminded that this particular morning would have been just cold enough
for her to forbid me leaving for school without a jacket (or long sleeved jumper) and long pants.
Well actually, this would been when I was little;
as I grew up, she didn't have to ASK me to dress warm.
I learned early in life that in Toronto,
you truely suffer if you want to look cool
or you can dress functionally, be un-stylish and comfortable.
These kids seemed about "middle school" age,
(dunno if you call it that here)
so probably year 5-9? (11-15 years old?)
Some are barefoot as well. It makes me feel cold just seeing kids like that on frosty mornings. We weren't allowed to wear long trousers at school, but I can't remember ever thinking about it at the time. Trying to get our kids to wear a jersey to school on cold mornings is a major mission.
^^ As a child, my parents wouldn't allow me to wear shorts on days under 20 C in Canada.
Yeah, but most of them weren't wearing a jumper or jacket
and the ones that were were wearing shorts.
Do Australian mothers dress their kids for the calendar, not the actual weather?
September 1st counts as spring here,
but all I see are longer days,
higher sun and slightly less rain and cold-snaps.
As I passed by those kids,
I was reminded that this particular morning would have been just cold enough
for her to forbid me leaving for school without a jacket (or long sleeved jumper) and long pants.
Well actually, this would been when I was little;
as I grew up, she didn't have to ASK me to dress warm.
I learned early in life that in Toronto,
you truely suffer if you want to look cool
or you can dress functionally, be un-stylish and comfortable.
These kids seemed about "middle school" age,
(dunno if you call it that here)
so probably year 5-9? (11-15 years old?)
I've noticed the same thing around here. Heck I've done it myself. In middle school I hated wearing a goofy winter jacket, so I often just wore a hooded sweatshirt, even if it was 10 F outside. Girls still wear skirts or unzipped light jackets in sub-freezing weather.
Where I live i Txas we have seen the record low all time set just teo nites ago and continued this week to equal it. Weather is strange indeed.
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