The Summer That Almost Was

After 3 years down under, it looks like we left Australia at the right time. Bloomberg is reporting that their summer was the coolest in 50 years:

After four years of water restrictions, Sydney saw about 50 percent more rain than usual this summer, according to Mike De Salis, a spokesman at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

``Suddenly we get one cool, wet summer and everyone's complaining,'' said De Salis.

We loved Australia due to the fantastic beach weather in the summer. Glad we didn't see one of these weather patterns when we were there.