Thank you for the update @Aussie Girl. We were down in the Hunter Valley and the winds were extreme as well as very hot and dry. This summer has me on edge. I think at this stage, if things are to continue, this will be a summer of fires again.

One of the Cellar staff had just returned from Perisher after a snowboarding holiday. She said that the snow was so patchy that the were jumping over grass patches. I was watching other snow fields and they had closed the season down. The rain, heat and wind just wiped the snow right out.

Still seems to be a few grass hopper days were temperatures will be very hot and then drop back down to 23 - 24°C then back into the high 20’s and low 30’s before the start of the summer season.

While the East of Australia struggles with high temperatures and damaging winds, over in Southern WA they are predicting snow today. Very crazy.