Xmas weather outlook

[simmo123]

Hi members, just wondering what your weather outlook is for the Xmas period, I realise we do have members scattered right across the globe so I am sure that there will be vast differences in the climate etc, down in our part of the world it was looking as though its going to be fairly warm & sunny with temps around 32c but thankfully not as hot as today when we reached a max of 42.4c or in the old terms around 106 farenheit,

It is full on keeping our garden going even though we are under water restrictions, only allowed to have our reticulation on two times a week. we are able to hand water with the hose which is really essential for us having just got the veggie garden going with all of the summer stuff in.It's only a small backyard compared with our last place where we had a half acre but we are still getting good results with most things .We have got most of the citrus trees including ,oranges ,lemons, grapefruits ( 2 species ),mandarins, loganberry, blueberry, also the grapevines are loaded this year, just put in a pecan nut tree plus our middle son who is in the trade has got us a mango tree which we are picking up when we go up to stay with the family a couple of days over the Xmas. He has a few acres up in the hills out of Perth so it should be a nice quiet break for us.

Gigged today at a local aged care home & it all went well, plenty of Xmas songs which took up a fair bit of the hour gig, now for a little break.

Once again wishing all members & staff a very merry Xmas & a safe new year.

The Simmo's

[simmo123]

Hi all, just a follow up on how our weather was over the Xmas break, well they did forecast a warm spell & they did not disappoint us, they actually got it right this time ,we finished up with a 37c day on the 25th followed by a warm 36c on boxing day, however the last 3 days we have had temps in the 42c+ & would you believe it dropped to a cool 24c today & for the next few days as well. Next week we are back into the high temps again.
It is always a good test for me as to how hot it is when I go down barefooted to our letter box which over here is situated on the front of our properties near the road , the postie just comes on he's motorbike with the mail in bags strapped to each side of the bike like pannier bags & puts any mail in the box , in our case it is a brick one built for us by our bricklayer son . In the early days they used to blow a whistle to let you know there was mail. As the post usually arrives around lunchtime Ole Simmo will check it out for mail but on our recent hot spell the concrete driveway gets really hot & because I mainly go around barefooted when I am mucking around in the garden or the garage I have to hop down the driveway to the box pretty smartly to get the post otherwise it burns the bottom of your feet ( even though they are pretty tough underneath through wear & tear ).
Just another bit ole Simmo's ramblings to share with the forum. Simmo