Dinetta, hope this dust storm doesn’t mean your front yard is landing in our front yard today..

Horrid here on the Coast at present.

Firestorm

Good idea starting up this thread.

I wonder how many kids made it to school today???

Heard a lot of call outs for respiratory problems. This is understandable.

LOL Firestorm! I’m getting somebody else’s front yard ATM…according to a boffin, this is very nutririous stuff soilwise so I hope it settles here…I have just arrived in town and everything, traffic, pedestrians etc seem to be “slo-mo”…can’t see anything whipping up from the paddocks down the back (we butt onto an irrigation farm) but then they’ve been leaving their harvested crops in the ground the last couple of years…

Mr D said it’s been reported as the biggest (I guess they mean widespread) dust-storm since 2002 (I can remember that one! red moon and all) and it looks like being the biggest in 75 years…we are living in history people!

My skin is dry and itchy, my lips are dry…not complaining, just observing…glad I don’t work where Longy does…not good for a girl’s complexion…

the dust reached Brownsville this afternoon just before the sun sat.

Broken Hill comes over pitch black during a dust storm

bluegreen said:

Broken Hill comes over pitch black during a dust storm

woah!

At about 17:30, we were driving home and MrD said Oh look at the moon…we checked the huge silvery disc hanging low in the western sky…and I said “but it was only new moon last friday”…so it was the sun…bigger than but just as silvery as the moon…the stars are sort of out so it is clearing…Brownsville is welcome to this…

Dinetta said:

At about 17:30, we were driving home and MrD said Oh look at the moon…we checked the huge silvery disc hanging low in the western sky…and I said “but it was only new moon last friday”…so it was the sun…bigger than but just as silvery as the moon…the stars are sort of out so it is clearing…Brownsville is welcome to this…

I gazed up at the same Moon this evening….

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2694705.htm
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Not sure why the chap was held up for an hour in emerald, maybe when the visibility was the least?

How’s it going up north in Brownsville??

bluegreen said:

Broken Hill comes over pitch black during a dust storm

That was unbelieveable!

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/09/23/Extreme_weather_batters_down_under_375611.html

Here’s a good one…

pretty hard to imagine dust, hail, fires, earthquakes and flooding rains all in the one day – especially when we’re sliding on mud down south. weird.

Dinetta.. indeed, I do hope some of that rich soil landed on you.. in the nicest possible way, of course.

Got home last night and the three hounds were all shades of reddy/brown.. of course, they wouldn’t have the sense to actually sit the storm out inside the house….

The video from Broken Hill was astonishing… never seen anything like it..

Although not making less of anyone’s misfortune yesterday… My heart goes out to Toowoomba, we went up for the flower festival last Saturday, and although so very very dry, the town just looked lovely.. that wind yesterday probably ruined all the plantings for the rest of the week and the coming weekend.

Dinetta said:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2694705.htm
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Not sure why the chap was held up for an hour in emerald, maybe when the visibility was the least?

How’s it going up north in Brownsville??

getting thicker… this evening is looking quite messy out there.

Heard from contacts that the dust reached Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands just before lunch this morning… Local weather guys are suggesting that another dust front will hit Townsville on the weekend…

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

14 here for Sunday

bluegreen said:

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

14 here for Sunday

Crazy weather…… Anyone seen the movie…… Day After Tomorrow???? Makes you wonder ….

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

Sounds like a nice drive to one of those little tea shops will be just the thing, in a couple of days…

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

Sounds like a nice drive to one of those little tea shops will be just the thing, in a couple of days…

I’m back in winter pj’s. Expected down to 7c min overnight. It’s the end of September for heavens sake.

Well traditionally the woollen blankets don’t get packed away (in napthalene) until October, as traditionally the occasional cool night can still happen…it’s just that we’re getting a string of these cool nights…

Dinetta said:

Well traditionally the woollen blankets don’t get packed away (in napthalene) until October, as traditionally the occasional cool night can still happen…it’s just that we’re getting a string of these cool nights…

We have been in summer pj’s for over a week. I have washed all the winter night wear. Now I’ll have to do it again.

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

Sounds like a nice drive to one of those little tea shops will be just the thing, in a couple of days…

The way they drive here in SA!!!!!! Hell no. Stay home safe and sound…lol

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Lucky1 said:

In the next ex amount of days….. we could get snow up in the Adelaide Hills. Sunday is going to be 13 degrees.

Sounds like a nice drive to one of those little tea shops will be just the thing, in a couple of days…

I’m back in winter pj’s. Expected down to 7c min overnight. It’s the end of September for heavens sake.

I’m in shorts and sweating this morning…….. bluddy hot flushes have started….. summer is so going to be so awful:(

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Sounds like a nice drive to one of those little tea shops will be just the thing, in a couple of days…

I’m back in winter pj’s. Expected down to 7c min overnight. It’s the end of September for heavens sake.

I’m in shorts and sweating this morning…….. bluddy hot flushes have started….. summer is so going to be so awful:(

Dust is still ‘ere :(

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

I’m back in winter pj’s. Expected down to 7c min overnight. It’s the end of September for heavens sake.

I’m in shorts and sweating this morning…….. bluddy hot flushes have started….. summer is so going to be so awful:(

Dust is still ‘ere :(

ment to be more tomorrow and i washed my car today.

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

pomolo said:

I’m back in winter pj’s. Expected down to 7c min overnight. It’s the end of September for heavens sake.

I’m in shorts and sweating this morning…….. bluddy hot flushes have started….. summer is so going to be so awful:(

Dust is still ‘ere :(

Now over in New Zealand…….saw on the news tonight.

Below 0 up at Mt Lofty this evening.

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

I’m in shorts and sweating this morning…….. bluddy hot flushes have started….. summer is so going to be so awful:(

Dust is still ‘ere :(

Now over in New Zealand…….saw on the news tonight.

Nah ah! It’s still here in Brownsville!

We have been covered in a broad blanket of smoke this afternoon. The fire must be way north but the wind is carrying the smoke for miles.

The old lungs are getting a fair variety of different things to filter this week. Now they’re saying we could be back to dust by Sunday. Oh what joy!

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

pain master said:

Dust is still ‘ere :(

Now over in New Zealand…….saw on the news tonight.

Nah ah! It’s still here in Brownsville!

Are you expecting to get more on Sunday?

Lucky1 said:

Below 0 up at Mt Lofty this evening.

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Below 0 up at Mt Lofty this evening.

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Below 0 up at Mt Lofty this evening.

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

http://www.bom.gov.au/info/thermal_stress/
Apparent temp indices Pom. The difference between what the temp is at the time, ans what it feels like.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Now over in New Zealand…….saw on the news tonight.

Nah ah! It’s still here in Brownsville!

Are you expecting to get more on Sunday?

Yeah think so… I was hoping it would be clear for the big Airshow tomorrow… :( You know Big Boys and Massive Toys!

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Lucky1 said:

Below 0 up at Mt Lofty this evening.

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

Flood lights.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

Flood lights.

LOL!

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Not according to the BOM, min temp on Lofty so far tonight is 3.0C at just after 7pm, but the Steadman Apparent Temp reads -2.0C, that’s the jobby in the shade…

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

Flood lights.

Smarty pants.

Happy Potter said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

How do you get a reading in the shade after 7pm?

Flood lights.

LOL!

well you can’t read a thermometer in the dark???

still here.. sunset number 4.

pain master said:

still here.. sunset number 4.

No2 dust storm never arrived here. No smoke either. Lookin good.

We’ve had all the wind and dust but none of the rain or snow.. Current temp is 5.5˚C

still out there this morning but smelling more like smoke today….

pain master said:

still out there this morning but smelling more like smoke today….

We got the dust last night and all the windows were wide open because it was so hot. Consequently everything inside and outsie the house has a layer of red dust covering it. I will have to scrub the fly screens again.

Tonights minimum temp is down to 7c. Out come the winter jammies again. This is getting ridiculous.

well this morning’s smoke wind, turned around 180 degrees and the dust came back in the arvy….

pain master said:

well this morning’s smoke wind, turned around 180 degrees and the dust came back in the arvy….

can’t win either way, PM?

bluegreen said:

pain master said:

well this morning’s smoke wind, turned around 180 degrees and the dust came back in the arvy….

can’t win either way, PM?

not at the moment… :(