I'm in Australia at the beginning of a Melbourne winter and it's cold. (And wet, too.) And yet the late spring / early summer in the UK wasn't very warm either, so the weather here is hardly any colder than what I just left and definitely no worse than we were having in northern England a few weeks ago. I've had some fun sending my British friends photos of gum trees studded with raindrops against a relentlessly grey sky and pointing out that you won't see this in any of the tourist brochures, but this is what Melbourne typically looks like in winter!!  

Welcome back to Oz, Courtenay. Yes, so far, the weather has been bleak, rather wet and definitely colder than what I remember it was last year. Allegedly, according to one of my daughters, it has been actually snowing in the Snowy mountains. 

We have a heat wave here in Michigan with high temperatures in the 90’s, which isn’t my favorite weather. But I don’t think it will last all summer and it will probably change sometime soon. 

Here too, narnian78. Thankfully, since I last posted (nearly one month ago), the rest of May and well into June was very pleasant—cool (sometimes even frosty) at nights with comfortable daytime temps. But this week is a different tale: our first hot and humid week of the summer (the Solstice was yesterday at 4:50 pm EDT) arrived this past Monday. It peaked on Wednesday, with gradual more refreshing weather coming in this weekend, accompanied by some good ol' storms. But as we are headed into July soon, this is only a taste of what will transpire in the seventh month—my absolutely least favourite month of the year.  

However, the plus side is that we have had rain most afternoons as that humidity builds, including some gorgeous thunder, on and on. ♥ So, the gardens continue to thrive and are so lush and vibrant—both veggie and floral. They are tending to look like horticultural or botanical magazine photos.  

Next week as we head towards the respective long weekends of Canada and the US, the temperature is to moderate nicely, with reasonable and fresher temps at night for sleeping, and windows flung wide open during the daytime.  

Popping in to post the great news that Thursday night's temperature is dropping to 8°C / 46.4F in town, which means a potential 6 or 7 for us out here. Tomorrow night should be just above 10C; this coming Sunday night is about the same, which means four early morning walks in a week at the end of June - quite rare for our region this time of year. I'm very pleased! And I am hoping this portends a cooler-than-normal July, but we shall see. Now, to get to sleep by 9:30 each night prior, so I can be walking out of the house by 5:15/5:30, latest.  

This week is muuuch more comfy than last week, when the humidex was around 104F. No thanks! Daytime temps are below seasonal; nighttime temps are low. Windows are flung wide open to the cool, refreshing winds and breezes.