Singing praises turns to a squawk

My recent singing of praises for an early spring has turned into a squawk. Yesterday the weather turned icy cold and brought snow to some unlikely places : not the usual ones in the Alps. Snow came to sea level localities like the Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland. Snow clouds loomed over the Dandenongs all day but I have not heard of any snow there. I have heard that snow fell at Mitcham a few suburbs away. But then it is rather high above sea level. At 1.40pm it was 8 degrees at Upper Gully but an hour later the sun was shining and the prospect of snow evaporated. There is only one certainty about Melbourne's weather - and that is its changeability. To-day it is quite cold and to-night temperatures in our neighbourhood are expected to go down to 4 degrees Celsius.