Tag: Weather

  • Climate Change: From Mumbai to Melbourne

    Climate Change: From Mumbai to Melbourne

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    Through Mumbai’s sweltering, suffocating Summer, I have spent many a day fantasising about rolling around in ice cold snow or being rugged up in layers of winter woolies. I have literally had dreams about it. So I was very excited about the prospect of escaping the sauna that is a Mumbai monsoon and spending some…

  • Waiting for the Monsoon

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    The weather here in Mumbai is now diabolical.  Between 9am and 6pm its too hot to consider venturing outside for any length of time.  Even just standing outside my front door for a few minutes renders me covered in sweat. The air is steamy.  The humidity weighs so heavily you almost feel like you are…