Visit From A Snowy New Chum
Sydney Morning Herald
Tuesday April 18, 2006
FOR the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitants, snow fell in Sydney on the morning of Tuesday last. About seven o'clock in the morning a drifting fall covered the streets, nearly an inch in depth; and it really was amusing to witness how the "natives" stared at so unexpected a visitant.
A razor-keen wind from the west blew pretty strongly at the time; and altogether it was the most English-like winter morning - always "barring" the fog - ever experienced in this part of the colony. Heavy rain succeeded; but in the course of the day, the thermometer sunk very low, and at night the air almost denoted a "biting frost". Some of the "old hands" expressed a hope that their old acquaintances, Messrs Frost and Snow, do not intend emigrating to NSW. They say the old fellows are still remembered with kindness, as the invariable attendants on Merry Old Christmas, in the land where his approach annually gladdens so many honest hearts; but, somehow, their apprehended emigration to NSW does not seem to diffuse universal gladness here.
© 2006 Sydney Morning Herald