So how is the weather now where you live?

The India and South Africa areas are odd, being so unspecific. But they have cities to give an indication so perhaps that's supposed to help makeit more specific. Perhaps they mean that the whole of South Africa compares to that section of Australia including the different climatic parts within South Africa? So Pretoria is like Sydney and Cape Town is more...well not sure what's in that part of Oz aside from that it's in South Australia. Apparently it's done based on average temperatures and some other classification. So I'm not sure how accurate it is anyway.

Well, Raz, SF proper is what you are describing. SF proper is a different beast than "the SF Bag area, which includes Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, and myriad of other suburban communities which enjoy a generally drier and sunnier climate than SF proper. I wohld guess that "the Bay Area" is a good match for what I have heard about the Melbourne region.

I am reading intimations that Theresa May 'is toast' (per The Mail on Sunday) and I cannot help but wonder if she'll be racled and served with either butter, margarine, or both, and jam, marmalade, or both. Anybody here with any inkling?

She probably is toast but does that have anything to do with the weather?

Weather is toasty here. My room has an oscillating fan, which helps, but conditions were such that I was forced to sleep nekkid atop the bed and its duvet because sleeping under the duvet would have been intolerably hot and moist. As I saw it, those were my only options...which I think sucks, because I prefer a lightweight cover. I shall request a flat sheet for tbe queen bed in my cramped adapted 13th century room. (There is a horse racing picture on the wall above the small writing/tea-making table. I suspect this is because this room was/is usually reserved for jockeys.)

Wholly squat! It followed me home...

All that toastiness is now here. We experienced 39 degrees Celsius yesterday (101 F), the hottest day of the year. A Sunday, of course.

It's that pestilential British weather, I'm tellin' ya...

The forecasters are predicting highs in the low 20s for the rest of the week...so, better.

I keep waiting for summer to start. But it's always cool and rainy.

I already had too much summer, last spring, in Britain.

I get home and get blasted with more of the same. Finally, that broke and we're back to near normality. Overcast. Dry, but overcast.

I came home from Britain with an accentuated farmer tan. Even early on, in Wales in April and early May, I got blue skies. Blustery, cool, blue skies. It rained on me in Whitehaven, in Falkirk, and along the Wall.

We're used to it

South Wales didn't get any of the hideous heat wave that rocked the Fens?

Gloomy here. I think our summer was last week

The weather's been crap since Kelly left. Come back!!!

Rain, rain, rain, rain!

It finally stopped raining here. We now actually have sunshine again.