fortunately at this point in the day we were still at home-- watching hail go sideways across the yard (a friend said he got a pic of him and another guy standing in the middle of the road with the rain coming down like that and NOBODY else around. he's sending it to darwin where he just arrived back from to show everyone up there melbourne's beautiful weather). it did clear up a bit for a while and was warm-ish (i had 4 layers on). the streets got fairly packed at one point while the sun was out but a lot of the usual stalls were missing from the street party (i'm sure they were blown away with the gale force winds in the morning). the bands were still good and most of them in pubs where it was warm and dry (and most of them smoke free)so we spent most of the afternoon/evening wandering around from pub to pub listening to bands (what the festival is kinda about anyway). it was the quietest street party i've been to. after the sun went down it was FREEZING (not just me but 2 other canadians we were hanging out with and zac too). when we got home at 10pm the temp was 7C (3C with the windchill) and it went down to 4C overnite (i'm sure it probably felt colder with the wind too). crazy to think less than a week ago it was in the low 30s and wasn't getting below 15 at nite!! that would be melbourne though. here's a shot of the hail storm from our yard (note the angle its going at and how much is on the ground-- the storm started about 30 sec before this shot)
fortunately at this point in the day we were still at home-- watching hail go sideways across the yard (a friend said he got a pic of him and another guy standing in the middle of the road with the rain coming down like that and NOBODY else around. he's sending it to darwin where he just arrived back from to show everyone up there melbourne's beautiful weather). it did clear up a bit for a while and was warm-ish (i had 4 layers on). the streets got fairly packed at one point while the sun was out but a lot of the usual stalls were missing from the street party (i'm sure they were blown away with the gale force winds in the morning). the bands were still good and most of them in pubs where it was warm and dry (and most of them smoke free)so we spent most of the afternoon/evening wandering around from pub to pub listening to bands (what the festival is kinda about anyway). it was the quietest street party i've been to. after the sun went down it was FREEZING (not just me but 2 other canadians we were hanging out with and zac too). when we got home at 10pm the temp was 7C (3C with the windchill) and it went down to 4C overnite (i'm sure it probably felt colder with the wind too). crazy to think less than a week ago it was in the low 30s and wasn't getting below 15 at nite!! that would be melbourne though. here's a shot of the hail storm from our yard (note the angle its going at and how much is on the ground-- the storm started about 30 sec before this shot)
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