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Daily Mail
4 days ago
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ABC News
13-07-2025
- Climate
- ABC News
Queenslanders warned to brace for another chilly week as temperatures plummet
As school students return to the classroom from today, most of Queensland is being warned to brace for another week of widespread frost and chilly conditions. Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said cold starts and sunny days were the outlook across the state. "We're also going to see another round of widespread frost from the south-east coast, Darling Downs, Maranoa and Warrego, possibly even into the central western highlands, Coalfields and Wide Bay. "So large parts of the state are going to see another cold, frosty morning, but it will then be a bright, sunny day not only there but right across the state on Monday." Temperatures plummeted below zero around the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, as well as the Maranoa and Warrego, over the weekend. On Monday morning, residents in Oakey woke to an icy -3.5 degrees Celsius. "We saw temperatures around -3C through places like Oakey, Applethorpe, and Stanthorpe -2C, Roma -2C, Miles -2C and Warwick as well," Mr Narramore said. "That will be the focus again on Monday and even again into Tuesday morning as well; they'll be the kind of areas that will have the coldest temperatures. "But single figures extending well north as well, even up into Mount Isa, Flinders Highway even up through there, we're going to see temperatures get down into the low single figures as well." The weather bureau said the cold snap was due to a large high-pressure system lingering over much of the country that was bringing a cool and frosty start to the day. Maximum forecast temperatures for the week range in the low to mid 20s for southern parts of the state, while northern areas and the far west will see high 20s to low 30s. "It's typical winter weather for this time of the year and it's the story statewide for much of the week," Mr Narramore said. However, Mr Narramore warned that winds would pick up by week's end, as well as the chances of shower activity. "As we move into Friday and into the weekend, we're going to see those winds tend a little bit more onshore," he said. "This means we could start to see cloud and showers developing through eastern and south-eastern Queensland on Friday afternoon and [they] probably could be more widespread on Saturday, just in time for the weekend. "So cold mornings but a sunny week for much of the state Monday through to Thursday, then we could see some cloud and showers returning and warmer nights Friday and into the weekend."
Irish Times
02-07-2025
- Climate
- Irish Times
Laura Kennedy: Welcome to Canberra winter where I am wearing thermal long johns like an old man in a Western
The Irish immigrant makes two grim discoveries on their first winter in Australia – first, Australia actually has a winter and, second, Australians apparently decline to insulate homes. They may have some sort of moral objection to ensuring that it is warmer inside the house than outside it. Or perhaps they're a people of such hardy, summery constitution overall that they simply forgot to insulate their dwellings. I'm unsure of the lore which constitutes the basis of this national 'colder in than out' rule. I just know that Australians have come to accept it while the rest of us have not. They don't complain. Or if they do, I can't hear them over the sound of all the non-Australians wondering aloud how it could be four degrees outside, and also in the kitchen. This week alone, I have witnessed people from the Netherlands, Canada (yeah – the snowy one), China and the UK all complaining about being murderously cold inside their house or apartment. 'I go to the gym just so I can feel my own feet,' the Canadian said. READ MORE 'In Canada we expect it. Things are built with an understanding of the climate. But here, it's another kind of cold,' they said, their eyes affecting a sort of odd, glazed look, as though they had left warm feet behind in Canada. I nodded sympathetically. Incidentally, it is winter here in Canberra now, where temperatures hit below minus seven one night this week and where I am wearing thermal long johns to bed like an old man in a Western. Just as people at home emerge from, or are still stuck in, the heatwave you've all been complaining about. Naturally, having enjoyed an Australian summer already this year, it would be a very bad look for me to express jealousy of the fact that Limerick 'got a nice run of sunny days, in fairness'. And yet, here I am, sitting in an Australian apartment with my coat on, jealous of my niece and nephew (ages five and three) enjoying a whippy ice cream this month in the Mediterranean luxury of their Limerick back garden paddling pool. It's shaped like a turtle. I'm not proud of it – the jealousy, not the paddling pool. Based on reports from friends and family at home, I understand that Ireland has been managing the kind of heat my mother used to describe as 'oppressive' while puffing her cheeks out like a woman overburdened with it all. It's a word generally reserved for dystopian political regimes and the experience of just having somehow zipped yourself dangerously into a pair of jeans three sizes too small. All the messages from home these last weeks suggest a country in extremis. 'I've gone to the seaside to wait it out,' my friend's voice note said, in a tone that evoked someone faking their own death to evade arrest. 'The Londis has run out of Soleros,' came another message, like someone reporting from the frontlines of a devastating natural disaster. Everyone who has been in touch from home appears to have been felled by the kind of hot weather which during my childhood would have necessitated a dinner of cold ham, iceberg lettuce, half a boiled egg and a large, wet slice of posthumous tomato. A slice of Irish tomato of the 1990s, which slithers over the tongue and down the throat like a bad oyster. This kind of dinner is a beautiful (if gastronomically repulsive) tradition in our culture – one which has thankfully been obliterated now that we can order our dinner via apps when we're too tired or hot to cook. All cultures have their version. It's the sort of dinner the British call 'picky bits', except they get their picky bits at Marks and Spencer, and it's a dinner of olives and Manchego wrapped in prosciutto and artichoke hearts. Nobody has boiled an egg inside a nuclear reactor, such that throwing it at a person could knock them unconscious, and you eat this dinner on a picnic blanket on Hampstead Heath or off the Elgin Marbles instead of your mother's kitchen table as she says: 'Nobody could be cooking in this weather, you'd get Jaysus heat stroke.' As you can likely tell, Canberra's winter can make a person wax sentimental for an Irish summer. I find myself yearning for a time when 'June' or 'July' meant hot weather and weird, deconstructed, low-effort dinners containing not one shred of dietary fibre. For a time when I could feel my feet. This is particularly ironic, since attending a convent school in Limerick meant having chilblained feet and hands with blue fingernails for 12 consecutive years. Had they looked nice, the radiators would largely have been decorative. I've been told by some readers of this column that I'm too negative about Ireland and too positive about Australia. Others, naturally, have accused me of directly the opposite, so I suppose I'll have to put the whole thing down to journalistic balance and await my Pulitzer any day now. But I wouldn't want anyone thinking that I don't hear the feedback. That I don't listen. So for those who say I'm down on my deeply beloved home country, which I complain about and write love letters to in equal measure, like every Irish expat writer, I wanted to share this potentially libellous message about Australian buildings (many of which we probably built, to be fair, so it might be our own fault). They are constructed neither for summer nor winter, but rather to maximise a sort of homesteading spirit of personal toughness in the face of a vast, capricious and indomitable natural landscape. That's very poetic, but it feels a smidge less so when you're wearing your scarf and gloves while trying to butter toast. The Australians get a lot of things right – coffee; side servings of chips that are somehow one kilo of chips; the cost of electricity. But! If you want your living room to feel warmer than the street it overlooks in winter, I'm afraid you'll have to move to Limerick. Or one of the warmer parts of Australia. Sign up to The Irish Times Abroad newsletter for Irish-connected people around the world. Here you'll find readers' stories of their lives overseas, plus news, business, sports, opinion, culture and lifestyle journalism relevant to Irish people around the world If you live overseas and would like to share your experience with Irish Times Abroad, you can use the form below, or email abroad@ with a little information about you and what you do. Thank you
The Herald
02-07-2025
- Climate
- The Herald
Snow expected as temperatures drop
'We're expecting a 60% chance of showers and rain, which becomes 80% over the southwest coast of the Western Cape. Cold conditions are expected over the high-lying areas of the Eastern Cape and Drakensberg mountains into Lesotho,' Thobela said. A 60% chance of showers and rain is expected into the afternoon over the southern parts of the Free State and into the Eastern Cape on Thursday. 'If you're in Gauteng, you can expect a partly cloudy day with cold temperatures and a possibility of a 30% chance of showers and rain over the southern parts of the province. 'Damaging winds are expected over the central interior, covering the southwestern parts of the Free State into the western parts of the North West and northern parts of the Eastern Cape, which might result in the development of veld fires. If you're around those areas, make sure you take caution. It will also result in some localised disruptions in informal settlements.' Disruptive rain is expected for the extreme southwestern parts of the Western Cape, covering the city of Cape Town into the west coast, which might result in localised flooding. 'Cold conditions are expected for the central interior from tomorrow and once we get to Friday we're expecting a 30% chance of showers and rain over the Free State, northwest Gauteng, southwestern parts of Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the east coast and the adjacent interior of the Eastern Cape.' On Friday there is a 60% to 80% chance of showers and rain, especially over the western parts of the Western Cape, with the possibility of disruptive rain that might lead to localised flooding.
