I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but, if you haven't already, you can take a short ride on the tram from Melbourne to St. Kilda Pier at sunset. The Little Penguins return to their rookery every night and it's worth the visit. Photo-taking is allowed without flash. I learned about it from a docent at the Melbourne Aquarium after a talk on penguins. Even though I was leaving for Canberra the next morning, I took the tram that evening to see the penguin parade, which unlike attending on Phillip Island, where you cannot take any pictures, is free.
I live in West Virginia. We can easily experience (in the shoulder seasons such as now) sun, snow, sun, snow all gone due to warm-up, drop in temp with in-coming rain - all in one day. Although it is mostly all in one week that all 4 seasons are experienced.
Melbourne is definitely known for food and especially coffee. It’s a scene onto itself. As for weather, Michigan regularly gets everything except hurricanes and even they visit once in a while.
Weird Weather? You mentioned Rapid City (I ASSUME that is the one in South Dakota?) in your comment earlier today. Any any rate that is the one I am bringing to you attention.
Many years ago, and I'm certain continuing yet today, are temperature 'inversions' (a vertical 'rotation' of much warmer high up air with much colder ground air) that occasionally occurs along a line from about Billings, MT, to Rapid, to Denver and south into New Mexico; following the 'foothills' of the Rocky Mountains.
While in college on a late afternoon we ventured into a favorite 'watering hole' sometime in February when the adjacent bank weather sign showed something like MINUS 12 (F) BELOW and totally miserable out with windrows of snow/ ice at the curb. After 'about' 3-4 hours of slowly increasing our blood's anti-freeze level we left to return to study for an exam. Bundled up expecting a blast a freezing shock wave would hit us: it was now 60-some degrees above ZERO and water running down the gutters like a rainstorm had hit...that was at least a 60+ degree heat wave. We spent another 2-3 years trying to duplicate the phenomena of intaking various quantities of alcohol to create a recipe for avoiding freezing to death. Unfortunately no experimental concoctions duplicated the previous event!
destination with weird weather: PANAMA. Friends talked us into going to Panama a few winters ago. We were seeking something warmer than Philadelphia and they were not kidding. It was unbearably hot. It felt like people were holding flaming matches on my skin. The sidewalks are empty all day. The pool deck was empty mid-day. They have air-conditioned, indoor malls-- with movie theaters --they were empty too. We saw a lot of movies. Went to the pool in the morning and again later afternoon. Stayed for 5 weeks and it was 5 weeks too long.
I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but, if you haven't already, you can take a short ride on the tram from Melbourne to St. Kilda Pier at sunset. The Little Penguins return to their rookery every night and it's worth the visit. Photo-taking is allowed without flash. I learned about it from a docent at the Melbourne Aquarium after a talk on penguins. Even though I was leaving for Canberra the next morning, I took the tram that evening to see the penguin parade, which unlike attending on Phillip Island, where you cannot take any pictures, is free.
I live in West Virginia. We can easily experience (in the shoulder seasons such as now) sun, snow, sun, snow all gone due to warm-up, drop in temp with in-coming rain - all in one day. Although it is mostly all in one week that all 4 seasons are experienced.
Melbourne is definitely known for food and especially coffee. It’s a scene onto itself. As for weather, Michigan regularly gets everything except hurricanes and even they visit once in a while.
Weird Weather? You mentioned Rapid City (I ASSUME that is the one in South Dakota?) in your comment earlier today. Any any rate that is the one I am bringing to you attention.
Many years ago, and I'm certain continuing yet today, are temperature 'inversions' (a vertical 'rotation' of much warmer high up air with much colder ground air) that occasionally occurs along a line from about Billings, MT, to Rapid, to Denver and south into New Mexico; following the 'foothills' of the Rocky Mountains.
While in college on a late afternoon we ventured into a favorite 'watering hole' sometime in February when the adjacent bank weather sign showed something like MINUS 12 (F) BELOW and totally miserable out with windrows of snow/ ice at the curb. After 'about' 3-4 hours of slowly increasing our blood's anti-freeze level we left to return to study for an exam. Bundled up expecting a blast a freezing shock wave would hit us: it was now 60-some degrees above ZERO and water running down the gutters like a rainstorm had hit...that was at least a 60+ degree heat wave. We spent another 2-3 years trying to duplicate the phenomena of intaking various quantities of alcohol to create a recipe for avoiding freezing to death. Unfortunately no experimental concoctions duplicated the previous event!
destination with weird weather: PANAMA. Friends talked us into going to Panama a few winters ago. We were seeking something warmer than Philadelphia and they were not kidding. It was unbearably hot. It felt like people were holding flaming matches on my skin. The sidewalks are empty all day. The pool deck was empty mid-day. They have air-conditioned, indoor malls-- with movie theaters --they were empty too. We saw a lot of movies. Went to the pool in the morning and again later afternoon. Stayed for 5 weeks and it was 5 weeks too long.