There’s definitely something baffling about the weather and it really starts to make you wonder perhaps all those flag waving long-haired environmentalists really do have a point.
Of course the changing climate is a popular bandwagon these days and has almost become mainstream along with saving whales and hugging trees - so if you are now thinking this way you definitely wont be alone.
But are there other factors at play?
For example : what are the odds of having exceptionally cold weather in any random month of the year?
Short answer is that most of the time the weather over any 30/31 day period will stay around the average, plus or minus a couple of degrees, but extremes will always occur from time to time – daily – monthly and yearly.
So that means you will get extremely un-seasonal weather, occasionally, in fact you should expect to do so from a statistical point of view.
What you shouldn’t get is an on-going run of un-seasonal weather, such as very cold Augusts, three or four years in a row.
And as far as last months stats are concerned the bottom line is that it is too early to tell!
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The increasing popularity of TV programs about genealogy and how our earliest settlers lived proves that history can be a whole lot more interesting, and informative, than just remembering a long list of obscure dates.
In fact these days it has become a popular past time, particularly for the over sixties, and is filling a gap in many family’s understanding of who exactly they are and where they come from.
Of course there was a time when a whole generation of Australians preferred to forget, or sweep under the carpet, any tenuous links their families might have had with a convict past. Bizarrely, I think, many from this generation clung to a ‘mother England mentality’ and were extremely uncomfortable with the true blue type of nationalism now on display on Anzac Day and sporting events such as the Olympics. I expect this incredibly blinkered and now dated view of how we define ourselves as Australians is dying out, literally.
Most baby boomers, like myself, (born 1946 – 1964) embraced the ‘me me me’ view of the world in their youth and were happy to create their very own piece of history and often deliberately chose to severe any links to an unknown, uncertain or uncool past.
Refreshingly Generation X and Ys seem to identify with the thousands of our young people who tragically lost their lives in overseas wars on a more personal level and link this to their own lives usually ignoring or completely overlooking the underlying politics involved.
I must say that I believe this is in fact a more enlightened approach and augers well for how we will as a nation view history in the future.
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