Who Else Is Fed up of Rains in Sydney?

nickskewl on 22/05/2022 - 22:17
Last edited 23/05/2022 - 08:16 by 1 other user

I have been in Sydney now for almost 20 years and can't recall such a wet stretch ever. One thing that I was fond of Sydney with the weather was in summer days would be hot and the evening will cool down with rain, thunderstorm, or a strong breeze. Rains would be for 2-3 days and then ease out.

Seems to have all changed now and feels like have been raining since September last year. When it comes it rains and or stays gloomy for 10-14 days at a stretch!!! Maybe global warming is real!!! Rain rain go away, I just want blue sky and play!!!

What are your thoughts??

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  • SF3 on 22/05/2022 - 22:21
    +3

    Let it go…

  • Hybroid on 22/05/2022 - 22:25
    +1

    We've been unlucky with 2 years of La Niña and bushfires year before then.

    More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a

    Normal service is expected for next year. Hopefully.

  • peppet on 22/05/2022 - 22:26
    +3

    I am so sick of it. The humidity was just awful but thankfully it's easing. I'm an outside person, it's hard to go outdoors when it's raining and I'm going insane sitting inside all day. Very much over it, bordering on "seasonal depression".

    I miss the sun.. poor sun.

  • morse on 22/05/2022 - 22:29
    +3

    I grew up in Sydney and remember some rainy stretches. Can’t specify when exactly.

    Anyhow, best to just make the most of it. Other than efforts to slow climate change which may or not pay off in the future, you can’t do much about the weather.

    Also better than bushfires, smoke and dust storms.

  • trustnoone on 22/05/2022 - 22:30
    +1

    Yeah something seems odd IMO, all I ever see is "rain, rain, rain" constantly coming from Sydney. I don't know whats up, but I swear its never had that much for that many days. Exactly as you say, usually you get heavy rain for a day or two, and then bam next day its flipped. I used to joke about this all the time (and had a hypothesis that it had to do with being near the water and location etc etc). But now I'm just seeing rain, rain, rain.

  • DemocracyManifest on 22/05/2022 - 22:31
    +1

    I went interstate and it was the best thing I’d done in a while for a trip. This rain sucks but escaped it for a couple of weeks

  • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 22:57
    +2

    loving it. wish it rained more

    • nickskewl on 22/05/2022 - 23:08

      Sarcasm?? Gotta be!!!!

      • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2022 - 23:12
        +2

        nope. i love the rain, sunny weather is only good for swimming, but swimming in the rain is nice too

  • orangetrain on 22/05/2022 - 23:09
    +1

    Climate change means higher temperature which means more rain at once when the raid clouds come.

    It's going to get worse. But yes, lately it's la nina.

    • Danstar on 23/05/2022 - 08:21

      But wait; I thought climate change was going to cause heat waves and drought ? Or does the theory change based on what ever the weather of the day is? 🤔😂

      • bobbified on 23/05/2022 - 08:51

        That was before when it was "global warming"… now it's just "climate change"!. 😋

        • Danstar on 23/05/2022 - 08:53
          +1

          Ah yes. How silly of me.

          Winter is coming now, cold weather and rain is due to climate change. Until summer hits and we need to change to hot weather is because of climate change. All true btw kinda like common sense

          • SlavOz on 23/05/2022 - 09:07
            -3

            @Danstar: As a general rule, when someone blames snowfall and bushfires on the same cause, there's no science involved.

            • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2022 - 10:42

              @SlavOz: seems like a pretty specific “rule”

      • orangetrain on 23/05/2022 - 10:46

        Water evaporates but has to go somewhere. Now with increasing temperatures, more evaporation will occur. Thus bigger rain clouds which can mean bigger rains then flooding.

        Now, what's pushing the rain clouds? There's the La Nina.

        • 1st-Amendment on 23/05/2022 - 16:03
          +2

          Thus bigger rain clouds which can mean bigger rains

          Lol.

          2005 Climate Cult: Drought conditions will become “permanent in eastern Australia” and “the rain that comes won't fill our dams”.
          2022 Climate Cult: Climate change will more more rain.

          I can't wait for the next dry cycle when the Climate Cult will change the story yet again…

          • orangetrain on 23/05/2022 - 16:36

            @1st-Amendment: Temperatures are rising on average every year combined with a very complicated climate/weather system that even the most trained meteorologist does not understand. Why would there be easy answers on what could happen?

            • 1st-Amendment on 23/05/2022 - 16:46

              @orangetrain:

              Why would there be easy answers on what could happen?

              Exactly my point. So when the Climate Cult tells you that the sky will fall on your head in 10 years (https://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0), then repeats that every ten years for the next 40 years, why the hell would anyone pay attention to anything they say?

              • orangetrain on 23/05/2022 - 17:03

                @1st-Amendment: That makes sense. Do you agree that we should listen to scientists who spent their entire lives studying climate, meteorology, etc?

                • 1st-Amendment on 23/05/2022 - 17:21

                  @orangetrain:

                  Do you agree that we should listen to scientists who spent their entire lives studying climate, meteorology, etc?

                  Depends on what they have to say surely? Einstein even said "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth"

                  If these 'experts' told you in 1989 that the world would end by 2000 and then that didn't happen, would you keep listening to them?
                  What if they then said it would end again in 2010? Then again in 2020?
                  And now the sky will apparently fall in 2030, how many times do they get to be wrong before you find someone else to listen to?

                  You see the problem here is that 'climate science' attempts to offer the certainty of Newtonian Physics when it is a lot closer to Roulette. The 'scientists' of which you refer are mostly 'modellers', and 'modelling' is just a fancy word for best guess.
                  The ultimate test of any scientific theory is its ability to make useful predictions. Can you name any from the field of climate 'science' that would make their guesses worthy of paying attention to?

                  • orangetrain on 23/05/2022 - 17:53

                    @1st-Amendment:

                    If these 'experts' told you in 1989 that the world would end by 2000 and then that didn't happen, would you keep listening to them?

                    What if they then said it would end again in 2010? Then again in 2020?

                    And now the sky will apparently fall in 2030, how many times do they get to be wrong before you find someone else to listen to?

                    I'm interested in what you mean by these, how was the world ending?

            • Danstar on 23/05/2022 - 19:23

              @orangetrain: Data for 100 odd years vs. billions of years old earth.

  • nickskewl on 22/05/2022 - 23:38

    Just have to ask, Hey Google, what's the weather forecast for the week? Its default rain from now to eternity………………….:-(😖

  • Ryanek on 23/05/2022 - 00:05
    +5

    Be careful what you wish for. It doesn't seem that long ago the dam levels were at record lows and water restrictions were in place.

    • Danstar on 23/05/2022 - 08:20
      -1

      Ahhh yes. I remember those days and how it was used as a political tool. Thank god we’ve moved on from that…oh wait…

  • rektrading on 23/05/2022 - 07:27

    🌂 makes everything more lush. ❤️ lush.

    • nickskewl on 23/05/2022 - 07:33

      Have been able to keep up with gardening. Can’t mow as the turf is too damp and feels like walking in a sponge.

      • rektrading on 23/05/2022 - 07:36

        Take your 👠 off and walk on it. It rivals the feeling of wet sand on the beach.

  • djones145 on 23/05/2022 - 07:27
    +1

    one way ticket to Mars?

    no rain
    no hayfever too
    always sunny
    dead quiet
    cheap land

  • elgrande on 23/05/2022 - 07:39
    +1

    I didnt realise its been raining.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2022 - 08:21
    +1

    what is rains

    • nickskewl on 23/05/2022 - 08:37

      “Rains" refers to the season of heavy rainfall. (A lot of rain).

    • nickskewl on 23/05/2022 - 08:38

      Amazingly not this morning, yet!

  • fredz0r on 23/05/2022 - 08:24

    Just vote the Greens. That will make it better.

    • nickskewl on 23/05/2022 - 08:37

      Doohhhhh!!!

  • garetz on 23/05/2022 - 08:28

    If you don't like it, move to a different state, its a free country in that regard.

  • bobbified on 23/05/2022 - 08:52

    Fed or up not, what can you do about it?

    • nickskewl on 23/05/2022 - 09:37
      -1

      Whinging and Whining on first world problems!!!

  • bardlee on 23/05/2022 - 09:07

    Here in Lismore we just got a minor flood alert last night. I think we've had 5 sunny days in the last six months and nothing over 30c and another week of rain forecast.

  • Jason Genova on 23/05/2022 - 09:09

    gloomy for 10-14 days at a stretch!!! Maybe global warming is real!!! Rain rain go away, I just want blue sky and play!!!

    calm down, m8

    just a bit of rain, cant have it sunny all the time

    this is coming from a born and bred sydney sider

    • SF3 on 23/05/2022 - 09:46

      Unless OP is the wicked witch of the west.

  • Richmond Tigers on 23/05/2022 - 09:13

    Ah I see brain dead climate change denialists have to bring their bullshit into ozbargain forums. See all you bitches in 10 years in your EV's.

  • Seraphin7 on 23/05/2022 - 09:22
    +2

    Comrade, if you pay more tax the weather will improve.

  • Maglia Nera on 23/05/2022 - 10:16

    I blame the New World Order and the shape-shifting aliens (Reptilians) who control the Earth.

  • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2022 - 10:41
    +1

    rather it rain than everything be on fire

  • cupcake on 23/05/2022 - 13:06
    +2

    As long as it's not 46 degrees and bush fires like that Summer we had.

  • Euphemistic on 23/05/2022 - 19:41
    +1

    Yeah. It’s wet. Suck it up, there’s nothing you can do. It’d be nice to get kids sport going on the weekends though, half the rounds have been washed out due to wet grounds.

    I remember back in the 90s we had a fairly wet summer. The joke going around was: what do you get after two days of rain? Monday. It seemed every weekend was wet and then dry for the week.

  • Sinnerator on 24/05/2022 - 17:07
    +1

    Ha Ha, I left Sydney 6 weeks ago for Melbourne, it's been nice here (a little chilly most mornings the last 1-2 weeks). When I start to freeze here I will return to Sydney, hopefully the floods will have subsided.

  • nickskewl on 24/05/2022 - 21:01

    Hahah…May be at times whinging helps…tell you what after posting it here, with rain forecasted till Thursday it hasn’t been that bad for 1st days of the week 🤣😀

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