Your Weather News @ December Edition 2025

Nearly a foot of snow here over the weekend. So no riding for a while

Here in Oz, we've had a pretty interesting start to Summer. Some parts of the Country have seen sub-zero °C temps with a light blanket of snow down to about 1600m, maybe as much as 10-15cm/4-6" on the higher peaks (we don't have too much in the way of 'higher peaks' tho! ) while other parts of the Country are pushing temps in the mid 40's °C and the Summer bushfires have already started!

In my little part of the Adelaide Hills in South Oz, the forecast yesterday, coming off days of fairly cool temps & damp, rainy weather, was finally looking like it was getting warmer, expected to head into the mid/high 20's °C with no rain; but instead, we scored a minimum temp of about 7°C, a max of about 22°C, and mostly sunny all day after starting out with a 0.4mm drizzle of rain just to remind us how wet it has been! And today, we're expecting mid 30's °C; strong, gusty winds; no clouds or rain; and Extreme Fire Danger - all just to lull us into the (false! ) expectation that Summer might finally be here, before we cop another a cool and rainy weekend followed by a week of clouds & drizzle with max temps back in the mid 20's with the rain settling back in for the following weekend!!

It's only just after 08:00 here, the temp has already hit 25°C, and the gusty wind is blowing stuff all over the place! The small flocks of Honey Eaters & tiny Blue Wrens that shelter in my native garden out front have already hit the bird bath after a busy early morning feeding frenzy, and they've now all retreated back into the depths of the denser bushes to avoid being blown away; while the nearby wetlands have gone eerily quiet! So I'll take the hint and make sure everything that might be blown around in my yard is either put away or battened down, but I'm not too sure that I won't get a visit from next doors' trampoline (again!) if the wind gusts from that direction... The family there haven't been up here in SA, let alone in the Hills for too long yet, so they haven't worked out that when the forecast here is for 'gusty winds', that often means anything not nailed down in your yard might just go visiting the neighbours!