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    Hobart is north enough for me.
     
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    We went to QLD in August. It was hellish.
     
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    Shudder. My heart rate increased a little at the thought of August in Gawd's Country.

    I have a long standing intolerance of heat, but it was taken to PTSD levels by a single day spent on a beach. It was 39 degrees, I was at the mercy of a group who 'love the beach in summer!', I had to park a 30 minute walk away .. in outrageously expensive stinky and scary underground parking, after two hours in traffic. The beach was packed, the surf was so angry that it was pretty much impossible to swim (not that I ever would in high summer .. gotta protect the lily whites, Nigella style). I ended up standing in a 30cm wide strip of shade from the trunk of a sad tree, 100 metres from the group, for hours. Holding various peoples' bags and phones. Couldn't sit down because the ground was littered with bird poop and was criss-crossed by constant foot traffic. Couldn't communicate with the group as their phones were with me, and I couldn't call out to them because they were too far away and surf was too noisy. Outside of the genuinely terrible life events we all suffer, it was easily the worst day of my life. I cried quietly for hours .. both while trapped there, all the way home, and after.
     
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    I am a Quenslander by birth. Where were you in August in the event you have described? You sure it was August?
     
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    I wasn't in Qld at the time. You guys are mercifully exempt from the very high temps .. at least along your coast.
     
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    I prefer even the blistering heat of summer in South Australia to the brain-sapping humidity of the tropics. To get away from the burning rays I can hide indoors with the aircon going at a rate of knots. I can get to the pub using survival techniques such as a long-sleeved shirt and hat and aircon in the car.

    The damn tropics give no quarter when I summon the courage to leave aircon. As soon as you walk outside it assaults you like The Blob. If I make it to the car that's a victory. If I can drive the car to the pub without the bloody windscreen fogging up that's a win. If I can make it from the car to the bar without my skin sloughing off my skeleton I count that as a magnificent effort. I bloody hate the tropics!
     
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    I feel for you! QLD is a place meant for special people who don’t mind hellish heat and or humidity-frequently at the same time.
    QILers don’t seem to sweat. Don’t know why.
     
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    It was me and we were at Southport- about fifteen years ago.
     
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    Not when I was there.
    That sounds like Melbourne weather. I can deal with that.
     
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    Highly unusual, almost unheard of, for the Gold Coast in May. Right now, here on the Sunshine Coast, it is about 25 degrees and overnight will drop maybe to about 15.
     
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    What’s the humidity?
     
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    Bugger all. It is very pleasant. I even have a light jumper on, track pants and thick socks.
     
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    Must be global warming!
     
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    Have to agree with you. A dry 42 is much better than a humid 36. The latter makes me feel like I'm a thousand years old. Nauseous, feeble, exhausted, grumpy, and barely able to move.
     
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    Nowhere for the sweat to go. The air is already sweating.
     
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    15 is way too hot for night time .. that's where my tolerance of the relatively mild Sunshine Coast climate ends. We were down to single figures by the end of March, here.
     
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    That sounds like me on a good day
     
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47891737

    Timeline: Julian Assange saga
    • August 2010 - The Swedish Prosecutor's Office first issues an arrest warrant for Assange. It says there are two separate allegations - one of rape and one of molestation. Assange says the claims are "without basis"
    • December 2010 - Assange is arrested in London and bailed at the second attempt
    • May 2012 - The UK's Supreme Court rules he should be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over the allegations
    • June 2012 - Assange enters the Ecuadorean embassy in London
    • August 2012 - Ecuador grants asylum to Assange, saying there are fears his human rights might be violated if he is extradited
    • August 2015 - Swedish prosecutors drop their investigation into two allegations - one of sexual molestation and one of unlawful coercion because they have run out of time to question him. But he still faces the more serious accusation of rape.
    • October 2015 - Metropolitan Police announces that officers will no longer be stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy
    • February 2016 - A UN panel rules that Assange has been "arbitrarily detained" by UK and Swedish authorities since 2010
    • May 2017 - Sweden's director of public prosecutions announces that the rape investigation into Assange is being dropped
    • July 2018 - The UK and Ecuador confirm they are holding ongoing talks over the fate of Assange
    • October 2018 - Assange is given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. He then launches legal action against the government of Ecuador
    • December 2018 - Assange's lawyer rejects an agreement announced by Ecuador's president to see him leave the Ecuadorean embassy
    • February 2019 - Australia grants Assange a new passport amid fears Ecuador may bring his asylum to an end
    • April 2019 - The Metropolitan Police arrests him for "failing to surrender to the court" over a warrant issued in 2012. He is found guilty and faces up to 12 months in prison, as well as extradition over US charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
     
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    :D

    I'm sprightly from March to October.
     
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