If you work in an office setting like me (virtual or not), you’ve probably heard some version of “fuck, it’s a bit chilly out” approximately 11 thousand times today. Well, guard thine nips, because it IS chilly out: Mount Hotham in Victoria was covered in over 10cm of snow last night, right at the end of spring.
Hot girl summer is cancelled and Snowvember is in, according to the images posted by the official Hotham Twitter account, which look straight out of the wardrobe to Narnia, minus my first love, Mr Tumnus.
#Snow in November? Absolutely! ☃️ Temps have dipped to -3°C and the snow falling at #Hotham, with more on the way tonight! ❄️❤️ #snowvember pic.twitter.com/UbAEkRTE4r
— Hotham (@_hotham) November 14, 2021
The account wrote that there was over 10cm of snow in Hotham on Sunday, with more expected later that night — with temperatures down to -3C. This is extremely rude and disrespectful of all our collective hot girl summer plans, which have already been postponed 83 times given the storms, hail, record-breaking rain and La Nińa event that are apparently hellbent on cockblocking me and the sun.
10cm & counting! Is it mid-November or mid-winter?! It’s set to keep #snowing all night! ❄️⛄️ Checkout our snowcams 👉 https://t.co/6vIPXeewtl pic.twitter.com/4L8e532cZc
— Hotham (@_hotham) November 14, 2021
Only two weeks until summer & Hotham looks like this! 😮❄️🥶 pic.twitter.com/qWYQOYBWaQ
— Hotham (@_hotham) November 15, 2021
Gippsland MP Darren Chester shared a tweet of the blizzard-like snow, which actually would be super cool if it was winter and I was in an Airbnb. But I’m in an apartment, working, with no heating, and snow-chilled winds whipping through my draughty window. So the snow can suck it.
“Summer just around the corner? Not today”, he said. Where is the sun!!! Where is it!!!
Summer just around the corner? Not today. Wild weather on top of Mt Hotham with fresh snow making driving conditions hazardous. #lovegippsland #roadtrip #seeaustraliafirst @JaneBunn @PaulHiggins pic.twitter.com/OgOP5cJxFf
— Darren Chester MP (@DarrenChesterMP) November 14, 2021
The snow last night is just the latest of wild weather chaos that seems to be determined to out-do itself every week.
First we had Victoria’s earthquake, and then we had NSW’s tornado. And then a spate of storms right after each other, including hail that was so bad it caved in a Westfield rooftop. Oh, and there’s the multi-state flood warnings, as well as the potential double La Nińa event.
We get it, it’s the apocalypse, we’re doomed, etc, now please can the earth restore warmth to my aching bones!! Thank you.
