Before arriving in Sydney, I’d seen much news about the longest drought in years, massive bushfires, unbelievable heat for so early in the season.
All this made me think that I wouldn’t need my raincoat, so I left it in Vancouver.
Since I’ve arrived, it has rained everywhere I’ve been.
Not only that, but while it’s been wet where I am, it’s been nice elsewhere, only to turn rainy once I arrived.
Adelaide, for example, was hot and sunny all week, as evidenced by sunny confines of the cricket grounds where the Australia-England test match was recently played (aside: they’re cricket mad here --- even in the airport, they seem to switch one TV in any bank to the cricket, the rest showing the arrivals & departures. I don’t get the game at all myself. I mean - it takes 5 or so days to play!!!).
Since arriving in Adelaide, it’s been almost non-stop rain.
Currently, there is a storm raging outside my window --- lightning, thunder, the whole bit.
In Sydney, which was damp when I was there, is now hot and sunny.
According to the weather, it will remian damp here until Wednesday, when I go back to Sydney, then turn sunny.
Sydney will do the reverse.
So I think the Australian government should pay for me to fly around Australia and visit drought-stricken places. I’m sure within a day or two of my arrival, it’ll rain there too…