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The Squandering of Daylight
InfiniteTraveller Started conversation Feb 6, 2009
Being a Scot in Tasmania gives a strange sensation of being in a home from home while at the same time being a long way from home. The little island off the south coast of Australia has all the right parts - rugged coastlines, rolling hills, green fields and austere mountains. There is also the added feature of wallabies bouncing around the place all the time, which gives the landscape a general feeling of busyness.
Having kept an unusually keen eye on the weather forecast over the past week I noticed that high pressure caused unusual weather in both Scotland and Tasmania. In Tasmania, the island was baked in the hottest temperatures on record. Almost 21 degrees Celsius at one point; temperatures that Scottish people can only dream about, or sneer at when they appear on a documentary about Africa.
The high pressure in Scotland lead to the coldest temperatures on record with some tiny nowhere place in the Highlands getting down to minus twenty seven. To put that in perspective, if you'd bought a string of sausages in a packet and were attempting to break just two of them away from the main pack with a bread knife, and the temperature dropped to minus twenty seven degrees, you'd never manage it because your hands would be stuck to the fridge door.
Seems a bit weird but remember, Australia is opposites land. It’s cold in winter time and in the summer. The moon is the wrong way up and girls drink beer. Looks like even atmospheric pressure is affected by the crazy upside down rules.
Now, I’m not a meteorologist but high pressure seems a bit unpredictable to me. What I think happened though is that the Tasmanian government took all the daylight they saved during daylight saving time and released it all in one weekend. Either that or the daylight silos breached and flooded the whole of South Australia. Whatever the reason it was pretty irresponsible on the part of the government because all that extra daylight flying around the place caused all sorts of problems with panic buying of cold things and endless worry about whether you had enough clean t-shirts to last you out till you could get back to your fleece.
All I would suggest is that no daylight should be stored under pressure, until a safe method can be devised or preventing spontaneous daylight outbreaks.
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