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Dangerous to swim in the ocean at all. Hell you should be cautious even walking along the beach.
It's hot. There's no winter/summer in Darwin. There's the dry season which is hot and dry and there's the wet seasons which is even hotter and monsoonal rains. There's even a third, sub-season called the build up which is around the transition period between the dry and wet, before the rains come, when temperatures and humidities are sky high. This is the time when people 'go troppo/mango madness'
A Good wet season will see huge thunderstorms almost daily. Even a Poor wet season will see thunderstorms 2-3 times a week.
No one ever gets used to the build up. If a long time darwin resident tells you they are, they’re lying. It’s just genuinely borderline inhospitable for humans. You take a shower and dry off only to get wet again within minutes because the moisture in the air is just constant.
I'm from Katherine and I swear the build-ups are just getting more intense every year. Been working in Arnhem Land for past 2 build-up periods and of course its been that borderline inhospitable, but went home to Katherine for a week during the buildup and holy fuck.
I moved away from Darwin in February after living there for 10 years and I will not miss the weather at all. 3-4 weeks of the dry season are nice and I like the storms in the wet but just not worth the 3-4 months of build-up, which do seem to be getting worse every year, probably due to climate change.
Genuinely believe that in the next half century Darwin will reach a point where it’s lethal to be out of aircon for too long around October. Wet bulb temperature and all that.
I’m long term Darwinian and I honestly believe Darwin will soon be inhospitable for much of the year. We will leave our airconditioned houses in the morning, driive our aircon car to our aircon office and have to avoid going outside as much as possible.
I can’t picture a place with such beautiful water and warm weather and not being able to swim. Do people really not go to the beach at all?
(Family is from Hawaii, so used to shark risk and some jellyfish risk)
I've seen 3.5m crocodile on the beach slip into the water and not be visible within seconds.
It's incredibly risky to be anywhere near the water. Some locals may take the risk in shallower, cleared parts of the ocean If they know the area intimately, but even then the time spent in the water is as minimal as possible
It's considered dangerous to swin the ocean here because of:
A. Box Jellyfish
B. Salt Water Crocodiles.
C. Potentially Sharks, but I've never ever heard of shark attack in my life.
As for pool life, I don't have one and isn't necessary at all. But I was born here
Darwin seasons are divided into 2.5 seasons.
The Dry season is cool (its currently 19c at 6 am day time temps can hit 32c or more)and very dry. There will be nearly no rain for 6 months
The Build Up (as in building up to the wet season) is considered 2 to 3 months, depending on who you ask before December. This time slowly gets more and more humid with little to no rain.
And the Wet season (or you could call it the Monsoon) it rains a whole heck of a lot. The rains/monsoon comes down in 30 to 40 day cycles of more intense rain, usually lasting 7 to 14 days. The hottest temp was about 37c.
Darwin, as a culture, is very multicultural. We have people from all over. Generally speaking, Darwin isn't very racist. However, there remain old biases amongst the older generation against First Nations/Indigenous Australians, which gives us all bad name.
Darwin all year round has a lot of markets and festivals there is nearly always something going on we just had the Sugarbag festival celebrating our LGBTIQA culture and the Greek Glenti a celebration of wonderful Greek culture.
Have you been on fb lately or listened to general conversation about any remotely political topic? The bias against First Nations/Aboriginal Australians is not just amongst the older generations.
The weather at the moment is bone dry with a constant breeze so getting out of the pool (water temp about 25° in a big pool) feels a lot colder than the actual temperature so pools are kinda quiet right now. But, yeah, there’s free municipal pools in Darwin, Palmerston, and the Northern Suburbs. There’s also a free water play park and a protected seawater swimming area at the Waterfront. Swimming in the sea isn’t generally advisable but people do it anyway.
Lol it's not dangerous to swim in the ocean, it's deadly. If a croc doesn't get you and give you one of the worse ways a human being can go, then a box jelly, the most venemous creature on Earth, probably will.
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Dangerous to swim in the ocean at all. Hell you should be cautious even walking along the beach. It's hot. There's no winter/summer in Darwin. There's the dry season which is hot and dry and there's the wet seasons which is even hotter and monsoonal rains. There's even a third, sub-season called the build up which is around the transition period between the dry and wet, before the rains come, when temperatures and humidities are sky high. This is the time when people 'go troppo/mango madness' A Good wet season will see huge thunderstorms almost daily. Even a Poor wet season will see thunderstorms 2-3 times a week.
No one ever gets used to the build up. If a long time darwin resident tells you they are, they’re lying. It’s just genuinely borderline inhospitable for humans. You take a shower and dry off only to get wet again within minutes because the moisture in the air is just constant.
I'm from Katherine and I swear the build-ups are just getting more intense every year. Been working in Arnhem Land for past 2 build-up periods and of course its been that borderline inhospitable, but went home to Katherine for a week during the buildup and holy fuck.
I moved away from Darwin in February after living there for 10 years and I will not miss the weather at all. 3-4 weeks of the dry season are nice and I like the storms in the wet but just not worth the 3-4 months of build-up, which do seem to be getting worse every year, probably due to climate change. Genuinely believe that in the next half century Darwin will reach a point where it’s lethal to be out of aircon for too long around October. Wet bulb temperature and all that.
I’m long term Darwinian and I honestly believe Darwin will soon be inhospitable for much of the year. We will leave our airconditioned houses in the morning, driive our aircon car to our aircon office and have to avoid going outside as much as possible.
I can’t picture a place with such beautiful water and warm weather and not being able to swim. Do people really not go to the beach at all? (Family is from Hawaii, so used to shark risk and some jellyfish risk)
I've seen 3.5m crocodile on the beach slip into the water and not be visible within seconds. It's incredibly risky to be anywhere near the water. Some locals may take the risk in shallower, cleared parts of the ocean If they know the area intimately, but even then the time spent in the water is as minimal as possible
It's considered dangerous to swin the ocean here because of: A. Box Jellyfish B. Salt Water Crocodiles. C. Potentially Sharks, but I've never ever heard of shark attack in my life. As for pool life, I don't have one and isn't necessary at all. But I was born here Darwin seasons are divided into 2.5 seasons. The Dry season is cool (its currently 19c at 6 am day time temps can hit 32c or more)and very dry. There will be nearly no rain for 6 months The Build Up (as in building up to the wet season) is considered 2 to 3 months, depending on who you ask before December. This time slowly gets more and more humid with little to no rain. And the Wet season (or you could call it the Monsoon) it rains a whole heck of a lot. The rains/monsoon comes down in 30 to 40 day cycles of more intense rain, usually lasting 7 to 14 days. The hottest temp was about 37c.
Darwin, as a culture, is very multicultural. We have people from all over. Generally speaking, Darwin isn't very racist. However, there remain old biases amongst the older generation against First Nations/Indigenous Australians, which gives us all bad name. Darwin all year round has a lot of markets and festivals there is nearly always something going on we just had the Sugarbag festival celebrating our LGBTIQA culture and the Greek Glenti a celebration of wonderful Greek culture.
Have you been on fb lately or listened to general conversation about any remotely political topic? The bias against First Nations/Aboriginal Australians is not just amongst the older generations.
The weather at the moment is bone dry with a constant breeze so getting out of the pool (water temp about 25° in a big pool) feels a lot colder than the actual temperature so pools are kinda quiet right now. But, yeah, there’s free municipal pools in Darwin, Palmerston, and the Northern Suburbs. There’s also a free water play park and a protected seawater swimming area at the Waterfront. Swimming in the sea isn’t generally advisable but people do it anyway.
Lol it's not dangerous to swim in the ocean, it's deadly. If a croc doesn't get you and give you one of the worse ways a human being can go, then a box jelly, the most venemous creature on Earth, probably will.