This problem with the weather

[MalcolmInN]

Thank you to MalcolmAL for broadening my knowledge of Brazil!
A day's never wasted when you learn something.

and you wouldnt believe the struggle I had against temptation to wax lyrical about the rainy season lol!

[Webbo]

Coastal Northern Australia between the Tropic of Capricorn goes from quite warm to warmer between winter and summer, but the killer in summer is the increase in humidity towards 100%. Canberra is a lot cooler in winter than our tropics and tends to be hotter in summer during the day but its humidity never becomes extreme so the heat is much easier to bear. Besides, having a continental climate it tends to cool down at night so sleeping is not generally a problem. One thing that can be said about cooler climates is that it is much easier to counter the cold (add clothes) than it is to keep out the heat.

Webbo 

[NinOz]

If you are at or near the equator (well actually anywhere between the two tropic latitudes) then you get two peaks (summers) and two troughs ("winters") per year as the sun appears to transit between the tropics.

CFJ

[Zogbert Splod]

Coastal Northern Australia between the Tropic of Capricorn goes from quite warm to warmer between winter and summer, but the killer in summer is the increase in humidity towards 100%. Canberra is a lot cooler in winter than our tropics and tends to be hotter in summer during the day but its humidity never becomes extreme so the heat is much easier to bear. Besides, having a continental climate it tends to cool down at night so sleeping is not generally a problem. One thing that can be said about cooler climates is that it is much easier to counter the cold (add clothes) than it is to keep out the heat.

Webbo

So right! I spent a while on a mapping and navigation project on the Dampier Archipelago a few years back. It was so humid that the birds grew scales and the fish were swimming 20 feet up in the air! OK, I admit it, I exaggerated - it was only 15 feet in the air. Dampier/Karatha was one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever been.

[Komata]

Zogg

Re: 'Dampier/Karatha was one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever been'.

Which is why so many expats' tend to move eastwards another 3,000 miles or so to a group of islands to the east of Tassie.  There's no other place that is so much like home etc..(with the added advantage that the locals DO speak English in a form that can actually be understood; at least for longer than five seconds... )

(I know, I know, hat, coat, passport, door...)

[Bealman]

Must admit I like NZ and visit often.

[Webbo]

Zogg

Re: 'Dampier/Karatha was one of the most uncomfortable places I have ever been'.

Which is why so many expats' tend to move eastwards another 3,000 miles or so to a group of islands to the east of Tassie.  There's no other place that is so much like home etc..(with the added advantage that the locals DO speak English in a form that can actually be understood; at least for longer than five seconds... )

(I know, I know, hat, coat, passport, door...)

How come we have so many New Zealanders in Oz? You guys have a beautiful country and a wonderful climate - I don't think I would leave if I lived there.

I too have experienced Karratha - enough said.

Webbo

[Bealman]

It's the shaky isles they like the stability 

[jonclox]

Ive always understood that the New Zealanders travel to Australia in the hope that they may at last after all the years civilise them. That's what my school teacher  told us 

[Bealman]

  I readily admit to hijacking this thread..... 

So back to the OP..... problem with weather?