Australian TV news identified him early this morning.

Most of what you were seeing from Australian outlets was late night news and journalists will have gone to bed or been repeatedly the late pm news during the US morning.

Midnight in Sydney is 8am in New York.

Ruth Park is cited extensively for her description of a Southerly Buster, and also the author of a children’s book about a change in the wind, so perhaps I shall just use this image:

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The coastal suburbs are under a severe weather alert and the wind is SSE so I think it safe to say the Southerly Buster is here:

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around to actively putting ON bras (sports bras are particularly good in this regard) in the evening after wearing binders… because the bra manufacturers aren’t lying about “sweat-wicking”. It is not actually feasible to operate in my kitchen in summer without one!

Oh eww. Australian coffee shops (unless on a university campus or in a major shopping complex) close infuriatingly early but most open at or before 7.30am, at least.

I hope everyone enjoys my new work of political allegory, Vegatable Farm. The potatoes are the proletariat and the pumpkin is Stalin.