Benny Holiday
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I remember when 'climate change' started here in Sydney. It was 1989, and I was 19 years old turning 20. Before that, we used to get four distinct seasons, we would get a cold frost in the middle of winter and the temperature in the south west where I live dropped to 0 degrees Centigrade, with some mornings down to -1 or even -2. In summer, it would be a dry heat, 36 degrees Centigrade average, with a few extra hot days in January or February reaching 40 or above, up to a rare 44 even.
Then, in 1989, for 8 months or so we started to get massive thunderstorms every afternoon at 4pm. You could almost time your watch by them. I was working in an office in Liverpool and another worker there my age and I would go and raid the vending machine for prawn crackers every day at that time. Huge lightning strikes, booming thunder, wild winds. I was dating a girl who lived a few miles east of town and I remember driving to her place one afternoon through one of those storms, trees and branches falling down over the roads, cyclonic winds, lightning and thunder.
After that, the weather changed. The dry heat of summer was replaced by unbearable humidity. This last summer we had several days at 46 degrees Centigrade and our record of 48 degrees. I think last winter we got two barely noticeable frosts, maybe one morning it got down to 1 degree. Much much milder. Instead of definable seasons, the weather is all over the place now. Towards the end of summer we had one day that was 36 degrees, the next was 21. That never used to happen. It's unpredictable and strange.
Then, in 1989, for 8 months or so we started to get massive thunderstorms every afternoon at 4pm. You could almost time your watch by them. I was working in an office in Liverpool and another worker there my age and I would go and raid the vending machine for prawn crackers every day at that time. Huge lightning strikes, booming thunder, wild winds. I was dating a girl who lived a few miles east of town and I remember driving to her place one afternoon through one of those storms, trees and branches falling down over the roads, cyclonic winds, lightning and thunder.
After that, the weather changed. The dry heat of summer was replaced by unbearable humidity. This last summer we had several days at 46 degrees Centigrade and our record of 48 degrees. I think last winter we got two barely noticeable frosts, maybe one morning it got down to 1 degree. Much much milder. Instead of definable seasons, the weather is all over the place now. Towards the end of summer we had one day that was 36 degrees, the next was 21. That never used to happen. It's unpredictable and strange.
