How Our Health Has Changed since we moved from UK to Australia Weather
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- We compare in more detail life in the UK and Australia and how our general health has improved -From sunny Christmases on the beach, bush fires, heavy rain, skiing in the Snowy Mountains, to charging our home and EV - also the busy Sydney festival calendar which takes advantage of the weather -we explore the diverse climate differences between the two countries. #australia #emigration #climate #sydney #bushfires #travel #vivid #solar #sydneyfestival
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Hello thanks everybody for watching! We are thrilled at the response to this video . As somebody has pointed out
It's the contact angle of the sun's radiation that determines the amount of energy that contacts the earth.- so yes latitude effects this but not because places are nearer the sun.
Also the UK has a relatively mild climate because of the Gulf Stream.
In Scotland we would do a lot of hill walking and its freezing in Winter ( and for a lot of the year- Scotland is lovely but cold..) particularly in Scotland and Bonnie would end up with a cold which usually turned into a chest infection.
For this reason we sought warmer climes. Since being in Australia we have hardly had a cold and certainly not chest infections- so living in Australia has not meant a yearly course of antibiotics !
I don't know why they do it, but everyone makes out like Australia is a scary place and everything will kill you.... Australia is not as dangerous or scary as people make it out to be.... don't be afraid.... I ❤️ that Australia is so multicultural....
AUSTRALIA IS AWESOME 👌
I have U.K. and European friends, and one thing they remark about here in Perth is you can hang your clothes outside mid-winter and you can take them in dry instead of frozen.
My husband was from Scotland (Glasgow) and really missed the intensely cold Winters. At one time, he bought a 100 acre farm in the Snowy Mountains and loved the truly cold Winters that are a fact of life, there.
I grew up in Rotorua, New Zealand and now live in North Central Victoria, Australia. I really miss Rotorua's consistent, year-round rainfall. It rains there, on average, every three days, all year round and the temperature is hardly ever above 26 Celsius. Sometimes it doesn't rain here for five months at a time! Everything is baking hot and dry, when that happens. I love the Autumn, Winter and Spring, especially once the Autumn Break happens and it begins to rain! I do enjoy the Summer heat but I am a Gardener, and it is painful for me, each year, to see my beloved plants struggling!
Thank you for your comment and for watching - yes “ one man’s meat is another man’s poison” so no size fits all- we have loved our time in New Zealand too/ we went to Queenstown and loved it- we plan to go and see more of NZ too. Bonnie is form Aberdeen and would always go down with a bad chest infection every winter - Scotland is a beautiful country no doubt but the winters are harsh and day to day life when it’s freezing can wear thin.. thanks for watching - we are a new channel so please consider subscribing to be notified of future videos 🙏🏼
I got chest infections every year for at least a month in the London winters. I couldn't afford rent, food and heating all at the same time! Now in Perth I couldn't get sick if I tried
Thanks for your comment - yes that’s been our experience too we just never succumb to colds etc -
Enjoyed your very well produced video! I am very grateful to live in this beautiful country! Love the weather here in Sydney!
Thank you so much for the comment- can’t believe the response as we are a very new and raw channel with a long way to go / really appreciate your feedback
Too cold for me. I moved to Brisbane.
Yes Brisbane has a lovely climate and it comes into its own in winter - when people come to Queensland from NSW for a break
It blew me away when I found out Hobert was closer to the equator than the French Riviera.
Thanks for your comment yes it puts it all into perspective
That seems abit unlikely, Spain is hot AF and it's close to France, last I checked it doesn't snow in Spain
@@MarcoCholo-iz9js The lattitude of Cannes is 43.55 degrees and the lattitude of Hobart is 42.88 degrees. The lower the number, the closer you are to the equator. It's called science.
Hi thanks for your reply - yes you wouldn’t think there is snow in Spain but it does in the Pyrenees - latitude is just one part of this multi faceted phenomena of climate - other factors ( by no means all) are altitude, land mass, prevailing winds, water temperature etc etc - but the skiing in Australia is good - much better than Scotland but probably not up there with the well known ski resorts like the Alps, Pyrenees, Japan , Canada, the US. In our hemisphere NZ has amazing skiing in places like Queenstown
I had to go to the beach in Perth once for Xmas day lunch because my English born sister-in-law insisted. Not only did she not bring any food she complained about the sand blowing on to her. Through gritted teeth I said well you're the one who wanted to come to the beach.
Thanks heather - Yes 24 degrees is an ideal temperature and in winter here - we always here great things about WA and people love living there
The 'snowies' Bonnie, not the 'snow'..
I lived in the Midlands for 5 years till 1985 and working in the building industry. Getting up in the dark, de-icing your car hoping it will start, cloudy, overcast and rainy is just depressing. I returned back to Australia arriving NY day 1986....Only been back once in 1994 and was still depressing then too........Hope you enjoy 'The Lucky Country".
Thank you for correcting - yes we love it so much here we are lucky to be in the lucky country!
Going to 'the snow' is the type of area, 'going to The Snowies' is the region, the Snowy Mountains.
Similar to 'going to the beach' and 'going to the Northern Beaches'.
Going to the mountains, going to the Blue Mountains.
Growing up in Canberra we always said we were going to the Snow ‘You going to the Snow this weekend?’ or we’d name the area, eg going to Perisher or going to Thredbo
Ahh now that makes sense ! We thought that the area near Thredbo was called the snow but it could mean going to say the ski fields in the Victorian Alps - thanks again
Thanks for your comment Heather - yes Christmas at first for people from the northern hemisphere and the UK in particular can be a bit of a culture shock - but it’s best just to embrace all that life had to offer here - we love it now - Perth and WA are lovely though and you are lucky to have all those Margaret River wines on your doorstep😊
Great video! I had to laugh, I live about 500 meters from the surf club at Flynns Beach in Port Macquarie at the start of the clip. I have friends in the UK too, and I'm trying to get them back to visit.
I'll be sure to share this.
Thanks for watching Sam ! Yes Port Macquarie is a lovely spot - please consider subscribing unless you have already - thank you
Good video , one nice benefit of living on a gigantic island , if you don't like the weather where you are , you can cross to another part of the country and get the extreme opposite , and anything in between.
If you compare Sydney to Melbourne, in the cold season Melbourne is probably a bit cooler, and can be a bit dreary with days of dreary drizzle , at the same time, Sydney historically gets annually about twice as much rainfall as Melbourne.
And because sydney is a bit higher on the globe , when Queensland gets some tropical storms, some of that can make it's way down sydney way on occasion.
Along the top of Australia , being closer to the equator, it is warmer weather and again prone to a bit more nasty wet seasons.
One of my favorite places in Australia is Broome western Australia, I've been watching the weather there for a couple of years now, it appears one of the most stable in the warm to hot temperature range all year around I'm not sure on the exact average, by my observation, it appears 28 to 34 Celsius seems to be pretty close to the average all year around , but in summer months it can be quite a bit higher.
Just looking at broome forecast for the next 9 days , sunny every day with a daytime temperature everyday variation of only 2 degrees , 33 to 35 celcius .... I so want to live there over Melbourne winter 😀,
Glad your enjoying sydney , have a great day.
Thanks Miki- yes we love Sydney and you are so right about Australia having such a diverse climate- when we did that graphic showing Australia against Europe I did a double check - it’s such a massive place - we wanted to convey how we experienced the weather based on our experience as climatology is so complex we’d be making a 10 hour long video and most people would turn off after 30 seconds- but thanks for your feedback- yes the west is a special place too/ thanks again
Good demmo with the latitude comparison - very interesting!
Thank you ! Latitude is not the whole story but it’s something people can relate to - please subscribe ( unless you have already) and you will be notified of future videos!
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia Can you put that latitude comparison into a Short video one day please, and it would be extra great if you could the same thing with the USA as well, even in the same short if there is enough time, please and thank you.
Hi Steve yes great idea - we are new to TH-cam and are still learning all you can do but yes we will do it - what part of the USA were you thinking about or just putting it next to Australia?
Hi Bonnie, aligning the Tropic of Capricorn and Cancer would be enough for the basics, but if it could be flipped it shows the humidity and rain patterns as well. Now it sounds like I'm asking too much more. lol
Here is the info that I kept typing out and after a dozen times I decided to copy and paste it into word so I could copy and paste it into comments.
I have done similar for the UK, Central-ish Europeans, and also compare Oz weather with the alignments over the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. I think Kuwait was the same latitude as Brisbane.
It was amazing how much people started to understand Oz climate, but your pictures just make it exponentially easier to understand.
Anyway, here is my attempt at explaining it with the only upside down map I could find, even though the alignment is off, enough for me to notice, but most don't notice it...
- LA is around the same Latitude as Sydney and not that far from the Canberra level which is maybe at Las Vegas level but in the lower Rockies above sea level,
- Philadelphia would be off the Oz mainland and in the ocean half way between continental Oz and Tasmania,
- Miami is at a similar Latitude to Brisbane, and the Tropic of Capricorn is at Rockhampton so the top third of the continent is above that Tropic Line, and the equivalent line runs through Mexico and is closer to Cuba than Florida.
- Also don't under estimate the amount of polar air that the Rocky Mountains funnels down the Western half of continental North America.
www.reddit.com/r/Map_Porn/comments/6o6x9q/australia_and_new_zealand_compared_to_north/#lightbox
Another bit I copied and pasted into word...
Yeah it does get uncomfortable, and can be dangerous, but maybe we just need to adapt and adopt some of the coping techniques that people who been living along the Equatorial regions have been using for the last 200,000 years through all of the other climate changes.
Maybe we could learn something from the Bedouins on the Saudi Peninsula and around Dubai before they built air conditioned skyscrapers in the last 20 or so years.
They live on the Tropic of Cancer, so similar in Latitude to the Tropic of Capricorn from Rockhampton to Broome.
In the summer, the weather in Dubai is very hot and humid, with temperatures exceeding 43 °C (109 °F) mainly in the months of July and August. The sea temperature could also reach 37 °C (99 °F), with humidity averaging over 90%.
Once again, I enjoyed your video a lot. Thanks
Thank you !
Thanks for your comment Ken yes Perth is a beautiful city
Its been an amazingly wet year - you will find it very different when we have drought years
Thanks for your comment Deb! Yes but we don’t mind the rain it’s over quickly - in the uk it just goes on and on - but you’re right it’s best to fill up the dams and it’s great for the crops - we love the climate in Australia and rain brings life -
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Welcome to Oz 💛
Thank you - we love it here !
Thanks Steve ! That’s a lot of work and yes good point to align the tropics / you have been doing a lot of research but it becomes a bit of a rabbit hole!! I did do a short but it’s not had many views- I may do a deliberate shorter video- we are still learning our way around TH-cam so it’s a bit clunky right now but we will improve! but as you say latitude is not the whole picture by any means - climate is just so complex but it’s driven by that massive star 150 million Km from
The earth - staggering to think you can get sun burn from something so far away !! But thanks so much again I know we oversimplified this a lot but it will help people put Australia into context in terms of it’s sheer size and proximity to the tropics / I couldn’t believe how far south it would be if it was up in the moo hemisphere.🙏🏼
My wife is from Staplehurst in Kent & i am a born & bread Perth Aussie. We are flying to the her home village for wedding mid May & then spending a month tripping around Europe including sailing down the Rhine from Amsterdam & Budapest. We both don't like the cold and consider Perth is the perfect Mediterranean climate to live in. We travel a lot and do like the east coast as a visitor but would not wan't to live there as too busy/congested. We do like chilling out in tropical Bali as it is only a short plane trip from Perth. I am hoping it won't be too cold in the UK mid May as we wan't to travel light visiting a number of European countries. Sydney is way to busy for us, but enjoyed a trip to Cairns last year and saw heaps. We have a 4wd & a caravan and love the WA coast which is some 13,000kms long with beaches that are up there with the best in the world. Even Perth metro beaches are damn awesome and not overcrowded. I reckon half of the UK have moved to Perth for a better family life.
Hi Thanks for your message- Lewis is from Maidstone in Kent and I am from Aberdeen- sounds like you have a great trip coming up - the UK is lovely ( but we prefer it here to live) may can be a bit chilly but just pack some layers - sounds like you have an idyllic life ! Thanks again for watching
Hey, I saw the Nambucca River (5:19) That's where I am. 😀
Thank you yes we loved Nambucca and look out for our full video from there - we are a new channel so if you can subscribe it will help us and you will be notified ( sorry TH-cam don’t show us who subscribed)
Good video - yes they say rainy old England but its a fact that Sydney has twice as much rainfall as London!
Thanks for your comment Dick - yes you’re right and something we have been surprised by is how much it rains in Sydney- but unlike the uk which seemed to have a constant drizzle it is usually short lived and intense here !
True. The difference is it dumps down here, and can then clear to sunny days after. However, Sydney has experienced 4 relatively wet summers in a row.
Yes it’s been surprisingly wet but it doesn’t bother us as it’s a good thing - having been so close to bush fires was an experience- but we are just amazed at how calm and in control the Australian s are -
SO? Londons mid summer high temp is the same as Sydney's mid winter temp (avg). And rainfall doesnt equate to the amount of sunshine, blue skies, open spaces, quality of life, surfing without a wetsuit and eating food not imported from actually sunny countries.
@@dmr8914 The point being that Sydney is actually quite wet, belying the stereotype of Australia being very dry. However it tends to bucket down in Sydney when it rains, and then clear more quickly than the softer more constant rain in England.
Good video, seems like you're really happy here, I guess you won't be moving back any time soon? I hope you grow to enjoy the warm Christmases, given you're in the Sydney area I hope you've hiked the Kurringgai National park, explored the Blue Mountains, but these are just the well known parts, have you tried the bay track around Bantry Bay? There's so many national parks in Australia that your almost spoilt for choice for your hiking adventures
Hi Dave thanks for your comment- yes we love it here and have done a lot of walking in the sydbey national parks but not much in the Blue Mountains- we did do the Wentworth falls valley of the waters which was dramatic- yes Australia is a huge place -
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia The Bantry Bay walk is near Mossman close to the city, I recommend that one you'll be amazed at the amount of bush land so close to the city and you also get beautiful views of middle harbour. I left Sydney about 25 years ago and live in Brisbane now, like you I move for a warmer climate, plenty of great places to hike up here too.
Thanks Dave for this great suggestion- we will try and do this one/ there is so much hidden in plain sight in Sydney and Australia 😊
Yes good point about too much rain but I suppose it’s filling the reservoirs up/ it’s La Niña and El Niño which seem to drive if it’s rainy or dry
I wish you luck.
Thank you!🙏🏼
lol.. so wil help you out with a few things. Australia might have better weather but we have a LOT of allergens. So I had three children, winters were always bad because one child would have asthma triggered in Kalgoorlie, another in the Pilbara and another in Perth. (well travelled0 these triggers often ended up in hospitalisation and pleurisy. Xmas in Jly was never about celebrating the winter xmas .. it was about shops exploiting the end of the financial year and encouraging purchases 'xmas in July " (remember our financial year ends on June 30 and people get their tax returns). You are definitely right - climate plays a bit part of our social culture. Its easier to connect outdoors.
Thanks for your comment and good point about the allergens.
Is this Lewis Carroll's TH-cam channel?😆 I find it ruddy hilarious!
Glad you enjoyed it
Excellent video. However there is one slight correction- Sydney doesn’t have a Mediterranean climate which is typically long dry summers and cool wet winters. Sydney has rain all year around.
Perth and Adelaide have climates that could considered Mediterranean.
The other thing that affects climate is altitude- so winters anywhere that is 700m or 800m above sea level do get very cold.
Yes thanks for your great comments- yes climate is very complex and we are not experts - so we wanted to make a video based on own experiences since being here - we wanted people in the uk to be able to relate to parts of Europe- but yes latitude, the jet streams topography land mass ocean currents latitude plus many other factors all influence climate - if we had mentioned all that I think it would be several hours long - but suffice to say we love the weather here ! But thanks again for your feedback and support
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia Respective latitudes are fascinating. It is only recently that I have realised how far north the entire UK is - equivalent to Canada.
Yes agree when you look at latitude it can help give a quick indication of the approximate climate you can expect but it’s no way near the whole story- the uk should be a lot colder than it’s latitude suggest but it’s bathed in warming ocean currents and the gulf stream - but latitude also dictates the day lengths - we used to love the daylight until about 11 pm in summer in Aberdeen but the flip side is the short days in the winter- it’s just the whole day in darkness - we probably should have mentioned this in the video but we just had to leave things out !
Please remember that Sydney is NOT the rest of Australia. There are different climate zones (about seven) and weather patterns around Australia. Also our climate is not just about the latitude and longitude of our country. but also about the tilt of the earth, ocean water currents, weather and wind patterns, the topography of the land, inland water, etc. Also we don't all go to the beach on a hot day or on Christmas Day or celebrate Christmas in our winter. Be careful not to generalise as it gives people who do not live here the wrong idea. Otherwise, an enjoyable video. ( PS. The Inuit people do not get colds and they live in the snow for much of the year. Colds have other sources and it is also is dependent on the strengths and weaknesses of one's constitution.)
Yes good points/ we wanted to emphasise our own experiences - but point taken - yes agree too on constitution but we were always coming down with colds and flu on the uk and we just don’t get these in Australia- we certainly find life is easier in a warmer climate - but we know people who don’t like the heat so each to their own - yes climate is hugely complex as you say / thanks for watching
Hi Steve. Just made the short Moving Australia North and UK South #australia #travel #sydney
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Thanks Kay - yes we liked Canberra too but it’s got this unfair reputation for being boring - so much to see and do there and it’s such a liveable place -
27c in the UK may by hot to you but its quite mild if you try 43c that is hot oh and welcome to australia
We love the weather here - when we first came here we were in T shirts and shorts and it would be a mild day on the uk but our freinds were all rugged up- it’s amazing how you acclimate - thanks again for watching and if you haven’t subscribed ( TH-cam don’t say ) if you do you will be notified of our other videos
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia i be looking forward more of your videos enjoy what Australia has to offer you
Yes, in Australia,'the snow' is something you visit, not somewhere you live
Hi Vivian - thanks for watching - yes we have been to the snowy mountains and stayed in Thredbo - lovely plane with a buzzing atmosphere- we can’t believe how these videos have taken off - please consider subscribing unless you have already so you can be notified of our latest videos!
It's the contact angle of the sun's radiation that determines the amount of energy that contacts the earth. This is the reason for the seasons. The small difference between earthly locations and the sun has nothing to do with any temperature differences.
Hi thanks for your comment- yes point taken - we will add a caption to correct this - yes it’s a complex subject and realise that latitude isn’t the whole story either - thanks for watching !
and my wife dreams of retiring and moving to Perthshire.... I let her have her dreams....
Hi Andrew thanks for your comment- yes Perthshire is lovely- whatever keeps you happy - what suits one person is intolerable for another and it’s hard to miss the pull of where you were born( I guess she was born there)
Yes thanks for your comment/ yes we can honestly say hand on heart that apart from mozis and maybe an ant bite we have never problems with dangerous poisonous creatures here / it not something you think about - yes Australia is very multicultural and all the better for it - yes we agree it is awesome ❤
Yes my mistake about Dandenong ! Sorry-Yes we went to the Dandenong’s and went on puffing Billy !
Sydney and most of the coast is RAINIER than the UK. MORE rain comes down, than in the UK.
Yes that is right but the rain seems to be intense and then it’s fine again - we get periods of heavy rain then periods of fine weather - we prefer the temperature here
So tell me, how has your health changed?
Hi so We added some captions to say this but I’ll check as maybe they haven’t been processed yet / in Scotland I did a little of hill walking and would go out in the freezing weather and I’d always end up with a cold and a chest infection- over here not a thing - but I’ll check in the captions they should be up !
Gulf Stream, not Jet Stream.
Yes thanks Peter you are correct- I’ll add a caption to point this out !
I always liked Montenegro.
Thanks for the comment Anita - we haven’t been there but hope you enjoyed this video-
Very interesting, thank you. While many people have this belief, Australia the country is not the same thing as Australia the continent, just the largest landmass of the continent which also includes Papua New Guinea and multiple island groups. You moved the country not the continent.
Thanks yes good point but it was a bit of fun so people in Europe can relate . But thanks for watching !
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia Oh, I enjoyed it, and as an Aussie could relate in reverse. Very cool idea.
It doesn’t include Papua and New Guinea they are separate countries and separate islands
@@brendajeffcoat5770 Yes, they are different islands and countries to the island country of Australia, but the continent of Australia (a completely different geological and geographical entity to the country) does include those islands and many others, with the country of Australia being the largest landmass on the continent of Australia.
The confusion arises because as children we are taught the names of the continents, and because we know Australia as our country, we assume the country is the continent. I only found out the reality in my uni geology courses.
Some ill-informed internet sources continue the misconception. To remove the confusion, geologists and geographers will often refer to the continent by the name of the continental shelf, Sahul.
Hi Bellas thanks for your comment - glad you liked it - it’s just that in the uk you would spend months dreaming of your summer holiday in say Greece - I remember we went to Greece one summer and were living in Newcastle and I cried as we flew back into a grey cloudy day / so people will say ok Sydney is near Greece ( in reverse) - but latitude is just one part of the story as climate is very very complex!😊
You didn't mention your health or did I miss something?
We say at the beginning that we would always get bad colds and chest infections because if the cold winters and one of the main reasons we moved was for warmer weather - since being here we’ve not had the colds we would always get every winter -
We’ve just added some subtitles to make this clear - thanks for letting us know it wasn’t clear
We were always pretty fit and did a lot of hill walking ( even in the freezing cold)But living in a warmer climate definitely helps your general health I think !
Not "snow "the snowies
Thanks our freinds always say we are off to the snow? Maybe we miss heard them ? Thanks for watching - it’s great how we have skiing here as most people outside of Australia don’t realise - we certainly didn’t !
When you go skiing you go to "the snow" in "the snowies".
Thanks/ the Australians have a dry sense of humour and are great fun !
Dolphins!
Yes the climate is perfect for dolphins and they are a common sight
If you want to see dolphins you can see them in Sydney harbour ( sometimes) usually when you go out of the heads on say a whale watching cruise - other places you are virtually guaranteed to see them are in Nelson’s bay in port Stephen’s and port Macquarie where you can see them in the Hastings river - they can be seen around much of the coast of Australia
@@Bonnie-Lewis-Australia lol .. actualy you can see dolphins on any of the coastal areas from what i know. from the southern most tips to the northmost points. You can even see them and their babies in the blackwood river (western Australia). BTW .. i'm glad you are happy here.. i'm a little concerned all the misery guts will want to come out. You know the ones i"m talking about !
Thanks for your comment about the dolphins - yes we have seen dolphins from Mornington peninsula up to cairns- most people we know love the thought of Australia but it won’t be for everyone- whatever makes you happy !
I guess our anglophille immigration department is still very keen on keeping the joint as white-anglo and loyal (to the UK), as possible hence the also open access for kiwis, but at least you dont seem to view it as a birthright, like the majority and appreciate coming here.
Thanks for your comment. No we are extremely grateful to be here and it was a long process to get our skilled migration visas - we have worked for several household name companies in Sydney- we love the beautiful country the people and the weather - we also enjoy going back to the uk but we would never go back there to live / thanks again for watching
What a load of rot. The top 4 countries of permanent migrants for the year 2022-2023 were India, China, Phillipines and Nepal. The UK was 5th.
Visit Dandenong in Melbourne. There is barely an Anglo in site. In regard to new Zealand migrants, many of them are Maoris
@@shaungibson2033No need be rude with your comment .
We have been to the Dandenongs - also Mornington peninsula and Melbourne of course - yes let’s keep it jovial !