Spring fourteen

[crabmeat thompson]

Seabreeze>Jesus?

Seabresus

[crabmeat thompson]

seabresus nailed this week's outlook.

praise be to seabresus.

[ctd]

Apparently we were all wrong: (review of 'Sprinter and Sprummer' in the SMH/fairfax press)

Tim Entwisle, director of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens, says our spring begins in August, not September. He invites Australians to switch from four to five seasons and to rename and redate them: instead of a neat division of three months a season Entwisle says our seasons should match our climate and what’s happening with our plants and animals. His would be: Sprinter, the early spring: August, September Sprummer, the early summer: October, November Summer: December to March Autumn: April, May Winter: June, July

Entwisle turns two centuries of meticulous plant-gathering records into graphs to show when spring really comes in southern Australia. Most of the 1.2 million specimens of pressed and dried plants in the National Herbarium of NSW, each carefully noted for its name, place and date of collection, were in flower when collected. From plants collected in 1770, ‘‘... when Joseph Banks was botanising in Botany Bay’’, and others up to the 2000s, Entwisle’s graphs show 200 years of blooming times.

The graphs show a rush upwards of plants beginning to flower, from 60-odd in July to more than 210 mid-August. The graphs persuade Entwisle that Australia’s spring starts in August, not September.

[crabmeat thompson]

I'd like to put this Entwhistle cnut in an industrial microwave.

[el rancho]

Who cares? Does naming seasons actually change anything important? As far as I can tell it's only useful so retards can tell what clothes to buy from Westfield

[crabmeat thompson]

Haha.

[el rancho]

I'm actually serious though.
I'd like to see which applications are dependant on whether it's officially spring and not winter. Pretty sure anything important like agriculture is a bit more nuanced than that.

[ctd]

The book I referenced noted that harvesting of grapes in France has started occuring several weeks earlier. But I am pretty sure farmers check the crop rather than the calendar in making that decision.

Thread titles is an issue. Obviously. As well as when weather girls get to say 'first day of spring but not spring weather' or similar. And stores get to bring out their spring collections, or put their winter stuff on sale.


BoM senior climatologist Kevin Smith told news.com.au today, spring starts on the first day of the month for ease of record keeping more than anything else.

“Today is the first spring, which sits with our calendar. It makes it nice and easy for everybody, and we’ve been starting the seasons on the first of the month for as long the Bureau has been taking records.

“If you started making seasons from the 21st to the 21st you’d probably end up confusing people.”

[crabmeat thompson]

I'm going to buy a flame-thrower and char grill this kevin smith cnut.

[steve shearer]

the main application Rancho is weather wankers like me being able to publicly masturbate over which season it is.

There are seven seasons in my region.

[el rancho]

the main application Rancho is weather wankers like me being able to publicly masturbate over which season it is.

There are seven seasons in my region.

I'm all for trainspotting of any kind really, and as I said, real applications are more nuanced than 4 big seasons starting on the 1st of the month.
it's surprising how different the climate is around your joint compared to up here, being only 80 kms away

[steve shearer]

yeah.....thats a function mostly of the major coastline realignment which begins at Cape Byron.
We are far more influenced by temperate southerly airflows drifting both across the continent but more strongly from the Tasman sea.

[crabmeat thompson]

would you say, you're not as good as us?

[steve shearer]

This Septembre has been most pleasant.

[Drailed]

There are seven seasons in my region.

Have to be difficult don't you Steve

[crabmeat thompson]

This Septembre has been most pleasant.

I've surfed four times this September.

[steve shearer]

Episodic south swells, flathead on the chew, finals football. It's nice.

[alakaboo]

Butterflies are off the charts.
Going to be good mackerel fishing