Southern Hemisphere ladies..it's spring!!! YAY!!

[crazycanuck]

Spring has sprung Spring has sprung..Say that a few times when you've had a bit too much coffeeeeeeee :D

I beweive spring has come to Australia....at least for the next week or so :rolleyes: NO RAIN in the Perth forecast for a whole week according to the BOM site :D

Friday Fine. Min 8 c Max 23c
Saturday Fine. Min 8 c Max 24c
Sunday Fine. Min 10 c Max 24c
Monday Fine. Min 10 c Max 21c
Tuesday Fine. Min 9c Max 22c

YAYAY...weeeeeeeeeeeee...

C

[MillieNZ]

it seems spring has arrived........ Clocks go forward this weekend in NZ.......... ya, more cycling time in the evening ( as long as the weather plays nicely )

AND no rain forcast for Auckland for the next two days....... of course the rain will be back for the weekend, but I'm happy to take the next two days rain free...........

Got my goals set out ready to go :)

doesn't spring just make you feel ssooooooo good :)

[DirtDiva]

Wouldn't know it in Chch this week. :( Still, there's a bit of blue stuff showing today at least. :)

[espirit]

I love spring, fills me full of energy and motivation! It's beautiful weather in central nsw, and even though we desperately need the rain, I love it! May as well enjoy the beautiful weather eh? the only other option is to get depressed about the lack of rain, which solves nothing!

I'm new to this site so hi to all the aussies. I'm also new to road riding and my goal is to do triathlon. Haven't done one yet, but will be sometime this year.

[crazycanuck]

Hey esprit..where in nsw are you??? just curious :o

I'm not sure when we're moving our clocks forward here in WA??? Must check it out..

C

[espirit]

hey crazycanuck, i'm in central west nsw, not far from bathurst where they do the big car races... about 3 hours west of sydney.

i don't think we change our clocks till the end of october, but i think they want to change it next year to start of october, which i don't really like cause i have to get up early and i prefer getting up in the light! :o

[crazycanuck]

Ohhh..Bathurst!!! I'm not a car racing fan but i do know about the mighty bathurst.

Is the area you're in badly affected by the drought??

c

[espirit]

yeah, it's pretty bad, not as bad as further west though. we used to get really good rain here, but now it's hardly enough to notice the difference between the seasons. we've had enough to get some spring grass growing but if we don't get some more very soon it'll all die off and that will be the end of the growing the season. how about in perth, what's it like there?

[crazycanuck]

The Perth region received quite a bit of rain this winter which brought the dam levels up to 41% capacity!

Unfortunately, the farmers in the wheatbelt haven't been so lucky :( and the drought continues..

The fire danger signage is already pointing at high!! :eek: It's not even hot yet!!!! Yikes!!!

C

[DirtDiva]

The sky is blue, blue, blue and cloudless today. :D Not sure I'm gonna be able to get out and ride in it though. :(

[nomummytummy]

OK so I am an Aussie living in NZ. In Sydney - spring means warmer days, getting to hot - it's all great.

In Wellington spring means rain, rain and more rain with wind so it comes in horizontal. I start joking about getting SAD (Seasonal affective disorder) and fantasinging about getting enough sun to get sunburnt. yeah i know that sunburn is all bad. The first 2 years i was here, I even went into a sunbed a couple of times to feel warm inside.

so our clocks went forward last night & I'm sitting here with the central heating on, a fleece & a thermal top. I'm seasonally confused:confused:

[MillieNZ]

OK so I am an Aussie living in NZ. In Sydney - spring means warmer days, getting to hot - it's all great.

In Wellington spring means rain, rain and more rain with wind so it comes in horizontal. I start joking about getting SAD (Seasonal affective disorder) and fantasinging about getting enough sun to get sunburnt. yeah i know that sunburn is all bad. The first 2 years i was here, I even went into a sunbed a couple of times to feel warm inside.

so our clocks went forward last night & I'm sitting here with the central heating on, a fleece & a thermal top. I'm seasonally confused:confused:

Wasn't it depressing yesterday......... clocks change, lot more daylight hours .......... and it was windy & wet in Auckland !!!!

i did manage a couple hours bike ride in the morning......... thankfully by the time the wind really got up ,it was behind me on the homeward stretch ~:D

Heater was on a last night too !

[light_sabe_r]

Ahhhhh....

The sweet sound of the airconditioner humming at night... BF and I turned it on around 10pm because ti was too hot to sleep. I was going to say it's only september then looked at my watch. "Oh! It's October now!"

Looking for a max of 29C today. It was 14C last night. Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun all week.
Next sunday I'm doing the Brisbane to Gold Coast, 100km! It's going to be very hot 32 degrees and SUNNY! The minimum they're predicting is 18 degrees which is as hot as it got during the coldest days of winter.

EEEP.

I'll be packing the sunscreen. And I'm considering taking my camelback as well as my waterbottles. It's gonna be a hell of a day!

[nomummytummy]

Ahhhhh....

The sweet sound of the airconditioner humming at night... BF and I turned it on around 10pm because ti was too hot to sleep. I was going to say it's only september then looked at my watch. "Oh! It's October now!"

Looking for a max of 29C today. It was 14C last night. Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun, Sun all week.
Next sunday I'm doing the Brisbane to Gold Coast, 100km! It's going to be very hot 32 degrees and SUNNY! The minimum they're predicting is 18 degrees which is as hot as it got during the coldest days of winter.

EEEP.

I'll be packing the sunscreen. And I'm considering taking my camelback as well as my waterbottles. It's gonna be a hell of a day!


Oh light saber i am soooo jealous!

[crazycanuck]

Me too Light..

It's only 23C atm but oh so beautiful. Spring is here but I am not 100% certain when rain is in the forecast every couple of days...

C

[kiwi girl]

With the change to daylight savings I managed to get an after work ride in today - yay. The forecase is not that flash for tomorrow though

[light_sabe_r]

Oh light saber i am soooo jealous!

LOL Sure we have the HOT weather. But WE also have the Very High UV danger and the very high fire danger all this week. For all I know I'll be riding into a smoky haze to get to the gold coast.

[DirtDiva]

Looks like they got it wrong, eh kiwi girl. :D Think I'll head out for a few flat kms after lunch...

[kiwi girl]

Looks like they got it wrong, eh kiwi girl. :D Think I'll head out for a few flat kms after lunch...

School holidays eh?

by the time I got home I thought the rain was on its way, so I went for a walk instead of taking the bike out - then it didn't rain so I was annoyed I didn't ride

[DirtDiva]

Yep. :D Gonna be hard to get up early again next week. :p

I cut my ride a wee bit short because I could see that is was raining over there and over there and over there and figured I'd rather get cold and wet close to home. Got rained on for about the last 5km of my ride. Of course, the rain stopped about a minute after I got home. :rolleyes: The wind was more of a problem today really - after slogging N/NW into it along Dyers/Bexley/Anzac, my average speed wasn't much of an improvement over what I'd get doing a hilly ride. :eek: