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You obviously don't have to walk a dog that thinks it's a reindeer in it

Here, have my snow, I don't want it!

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Yeah I do like looking at from the inside I do however own a reindeer that thinks it is a dog....

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You'll need bigger poo bags then.....

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Yes, snow here this morning too, but only about an inch deep so far, though it is still falling as we speak.

I haven't got to go out until this afternoon, so won't worry about driving until then.

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Temperature has risen, so what snow fell last evening is now rapidly melting.

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Horrid white stuff, still here and more in the sky.
I am hibernating.

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No snow here, I live in a deprived area

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Same here, UJ. It was actually melting away by 4.30am, when dog wanted to go out!

Not much trace of it now.

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Sydney is always more prone to storms than say Wollongong because generally speaking the weather comes from the west. Sydney is a big basin where the great dividing range (Blue Mountains) is about 80km from the sea so the weather gets time to form as it comes off the mountains whereas at Wollongong the mountains are only about 1 to 10km from the sea.

(I should say that is not my knowledge but a storm chaser friend of mine that I worked with for many years who over the years told me about these things to the point where I know what a katabatic wind is)

Southerly busters are the relief from the heat, in the colonial days there was a mechanical telegraph system from Jervis Bay to Sydney Observatory so a signal telling of a southerly coming up the coast was sent as good tidings for Sydney residents - they hoisted a special flag. The buster is usually a rapid drop in temperature with a brief but sometime gusty cool wind as a cold front goes rapidly up the coast.

We have had unprecedented weather in January with heatwaves one after another going on for a week at a time but the southerlies (until this one) have been brief and ineffective perhaps only dropping the temperature by a few degrees. I have never known anything like it in the (over) 50 years I have lived here.

It must be said that heat is energy so hotter climates are more prone to storms etc but these are usually brief if violent.

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About 8 inches here, snow that is!
Still snowing, Dolly went out the door and came straight back in.
l made sure the bird's food was uncovered and actually got a blackbird feeding, makes a change from pigeons, crows and seagulls!
I will go for a short walk to the postbox, not sure if Dolly will want to come though.
I wish I could walk as far as The Gorge, I bet it looks super in the snow!