Dispatches from the sunburned wastelands

It's been raining steadily all day, and this afternoon while driving from work, I noticed a dusting of snow on the mountains surrounding Canberra. Apparently, this kind of weather used to be the norm, up to five or six years ago, when the drought started. Hopefully this change in the weather will continue for the rest of winter...The place looks really miserable when it's bone-dry at the end of winter, like it did last year when we arrived. There has also been some heavy frost almost every morning for the last week, and all this freezing weather has caused my cold to stay with me for far longer than anticipated (sniffle). Anyway, if this cold and wet weather continues, we'll soon be building snowmen on the sunburned wastelands...

Posted by HannesB at 7:28 PM Comments