WUWT reader David Summers sends this photo along taken a few days ago in 2007 in Australia from a colleague that “returned there for the summer”. I thought it might make a fun photo caption exercise.
Note: This photo as represented to me in email, was supposedly recent.
Thanks to alert WUWT reader “snow captain of queanbeyan” obviously now that is not the case. So much for trusting friendly emails from people. The photo was originally taken in 2007 and you can see the details here.
Still, as originally intended, feel free to make a fun photo caption.
OK, so it is pretty clear that the photo was not taken this year in May.
Of course, such a photo could still be taken …
I lived in Canberra for 10 years and never saw snow in Canberra or Queenbeyan.
Damn. Wonder how much water is in Lake George.
Dang that tectonic plate drift!
Hop,skip and ski anyone ?
Enduring proof that global is a myth: one kangaroo makes a global winter.
“He was yearning for days when smokey haze
and sheep farts warmed the range.”
this global warming really sucks…..
My kingdom for a brandy!
Richard Sharpe I am a Canberra resident and have seen a fall of snow here, but not much. I read something about Canberra being closed down due to snow for two to three days. I have not been able to confirm it though. Lake George has a little water in the distance (toward Bungedore) which you can see when you get up on the hills towards Gundaroo. I remember it lapping the road and a yacht club about 50 years ago. My Aunt remembers it as dry as it is now in 1931. The farmers who own the lake bed are well pleased and there are flocks of sheep on it now.
Alas, I can’t feel my kiwifruit.
Um, you people do know that Australia gets winter and that we have mountains don’t you. Here’s a hint – the highest region of the Great Dividing range is called the ‘Snowy Mountains’. I’ve gone cross country skiing there in Spring since the the mid eighties. Even in summer you have to be prepared for extreme weather including occasional snow and sub-zero temperatures.
The post in the foreground of that photo has a reflector on top, indicating that it is above the snow line. You don’t see that design deployed anywhere else.
However, there has been a significant decrease in snowfall in recent decades – approximately a 40% decrease over the last 40 years according to this Bureau of Meteorology page.
Even though we Victorians saw temperatures climb to the ridiculous record of 48°C this past summer, a winter without snow is an event beyond imagining for decades to come.
Beam me up Scotty, no sign of intelligent life here.
I don’t know man, that’s a pretty heavy frost. Next thing you know, we’ll have penguins trying to move in.
Timebandit (18:59:13), I swear I didn’t read your entry, or any. One came to mind and I skipped down to log it in and went back and found yours.
“Don’t panic, DON’T PANIC. This can all be explained by a man-made ozone hole, soon to be appearing in a peer-reviewed journal near you”.
Jeremy,
I think you will find it was Paul Keating who famously placed his hand on the Royal personage in a presumptuous manner; for this he is forever known as The Lizard of Oz.
DHMO says:
Yeah, I remember in the ’70s and ’80s that the water was up to maybe 100 to 200 feet from the roadway, but when I drove that way in 2005 all you could see when you came to Lake George from the Hume Highway was a small amount of water far in the distance.
However, I have heard that it goes in cycles. I also heard that snow had fallen in Canberra in the early ’70s or maybe in the late ’60s (I got off a plane from Darwin in early February ’75) …
Craig Allen says:
Sure, but in Queenbeyan? I’ve seen it a Picadilly Circus …
Richard Sharpe (19:41:51) :
OK, so it is pretty clear that the photo was not taken this year in May.
Of course, such a photo could still be taken …
Yes, yesterday in the hills behind Waimate, in the South Island of New Zealand, where there are plenty of introduced wallabies and much snow to low levels.
The Kangaroo looks pretty cold. Here is a happier photo of showing two Saudis enjoying snow that fell in Al-Baha (a city southwest of Riyadh) on May 12th.
http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,1897818,00.html?xid=rss-potd
Caption: 1) Oh-ooh!… The Iceman Cometh!
2) Something Wicked This Way Falls!
3) And some folks say… He’s out there still!
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Ok OK Im a AGW sleptic but do you have to fence me in!
Yummy dinner morsel escapes from a Ranch which raises Kangaroos which are well known for their succulent and juicy taste. This one escaped by hopping over a fence that had high snow drifts. It wasn’t prepared for the snow but then with the New Global Ice Age brought on my man tampering with the Earth’s biosphere using way too effective terraforming technologies mistakenly deployed to scrub C02 in fact removed way too much just when the Sun entered a prolonged quiescent epoch. Now kangaroos freeze standing still. Well at least they can be put on the barbi without having to slaughtering them. Eat up, burn more fuels, create C02 however you can. Warm up the planet before we all freeze to extinction.
♪ When it snows ♫
ain’t it thrilling
Those your nose ♪ gets a chilling
We’ll frolic and play
♪ The Eskimo way
Walking in a Winter Wonderland ♫
♫ Walking in a Winter Wonderland ♪
Was that photo “peer reviewed”? Does his author have credentials? That photo-caption cannot be real because there aren’t models which gives it overwhelming support!
Elizabeth (20:24:20) :
Alas, I can’t feel my kiwifruit.
rofl
“Where the hell is Godot? …said he’d be here when hell freezes over.”