Hi,
Two years ago, Tim Entwhistle, Director of the Sydney Botanic
Gardens, suggested, on the basis of plant 'behaviour' that in Oz we have
five seasons, including two new ones: sprinter and sprummer.
"I reckon there are 5 seasons. There's an early spring, which I call
Sprinter - August a
To each his own; it depends, of course, on what you want to express.
Where climate is concerned, we in The Netherlands apparently recognize three
seasons:
July, August, and Autumn.
Actually, the difference is not that great: August is slightly cooler than
July, and Autumn is cooler still, b
well, March in Phoenix can seem like summer, February like Spring. Fall in mid
November, winter in December :)
However even Arizona has an artificial set of dates now for the monsoon. The
monsoon used to be defined by several days in a row of high humidity, and end
some tome later. That w
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:52 PM, John Pickard
wrote:
> Good morning all (and especially those in the Northern Hemisphere still
> stuck in winter),
>
> The following letter appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (Saturday 5
> March 2016, p. 39)
>
> "Still summer in Sydney.
>
> It's hard not to be am
