Eight days have passed since I observed these in full flower in Melbourne (07/12/2015). Ours were just coming out here on Tuesday 15/12/2015 Agapanthus and Jacaranda. So much of ‘global warming’ is simply the ‘Urban Heat Island’ effect/local variations. I have many times observed that AGW is not present in the satellite records or in the more remote surface station records such as Cape Otway’s http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=36&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_stn_num=090015 ):
