Over here peeps.

pain master said:

Over here peeps.

We’re not having any. We seem to have slipped under the radar.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Over here peeps.

We’re not having any. We seem to have slipped under the radar.

Won’t last forever. Enjoy it while you can.

currently 25.2ºC with 80% humidity. they’re predicting 5-10mm to fall today and 25-50mm for tomorrow.

and Pom, they’re predicting 0mm for youse today and 5-10mm for tomorrow.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

Over here peeps.

We’re not having any. We seem to have slipped under the radar.

Won’t last forever. Enjoy it while you can.

A bright and breezy Saturday. Bright as in sunny and breezy as in windy. Could be worse. Temperature is cooler so it should be a good day.

pain master said:

currently 25.2ºC with 80% humidity. they’re predicting 5-10mm to fall today and 25-50mm for tomorrow.

and Pom, they’re predicting 0mm for youse today and 5-10mm for tomorrow.

5-10 would be nice but the 4 day forecast doesn’t say that.

pomolo said:

5-10 would be nice but the 4 day forecast doesn’t say that.

no, your 4-day forecast suggests 25 – 50mm….

pain master said:

pomolo said:

5-10 would be nice but the 4 day forecast doesn’t say that.

no, your 4-day forecast suggests 25 – 50mm….

But for tomorrow BoM gives us zero. That’s the way I read it.(n their 4 day forecast)

pomolo said:

But for tomorrow BoM gives us zero. That’s the way I read it.(n their 4 day forecast)

Indeed. The BOM have updated and you is getting nothing tomorrow.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

5-10 would be nice but the 4 day forecast doesn’t say that.

no, your 4-day forecast suggests 25 – 50mm….

Oh, I wish that south-western rain would hurry up and put all these fires out :)

Oops.. that was meant to be a :( not a :) !

Oh, I wish that south-western rain would hurry up and put all these fires out :)

Yep I agree…what a disaster this has been :(

We had some fool in our street burn rubbish in their yard a week ago and nearly set the south east hills alight.
My god what was he thinking??? it was a 37 deg day!!! Had to show some i.d to be let back to my home

pain master said:

pomolo said:

But for tomorrow BoM gives us zero. That’s the way I read it.(n their 4 day forecast)

Indeed. The BOM have updated and you is getting nothing tomorrow.

So what’s new?

bon008 said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

5-10 would be nice but the 4 day forecast doesn’t say that.

no, your 4-day forecast suggests 25 – 50mm….

Oh, I wish that south-western rain would hurry up and put all these fires out :)

It’s just not fair Bon.

Muschee said:

Oh, I wish that south-western rain would hurry up and put all these fires out :)

Yep I agree…what a disaster this has been :(

We had some fool in our street burn rubbish in their yard a week ago and nearly set the south east hills alight.
My god what was he thinking??? it was a 37 deg day!!! Had to show some i.d to be let back to my home

I really feel for you all. It’s a terrible way to have to live. Not knowing when the next fire could rage.

Muschee said:

Yep I agree…what a disaster this has been :(

We had some fool in our street burn rubbish in their yard a week ago and nearly set the south east hills alight.
My god what was he thinking??? it was a 37 deg day!!! Had to show some i.d to be let back to my home

Wow. The mind boggles =/ What a reckless, stupid thing to do.

20.0°C on the gauge and heading for a top of 25°C

Temperature 20.0°C
Dew Point 14.4°C
Feels Like 20.0°C
Relative Humidity 70%
Wind SW 9km/h
Wind Gusts 15km/h
Pressure 1016.0hPa steady
Fire Danger 2.7
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.2mm / 0.0mm

it is trying to rain.

we is getting some today!

some good falls in the 3 hours since 9am.

pain master said:

we is getting some today!

Our turns coming through the week.

pain master said:

some good falls in the 3 hours since 9am.

Are you under that orange “52?”

Oooh, we have some smatterings about..

Hope it increases, and heads for the fires. And suburbia, too! Mind you, the one good thing about this hot weather is that it’s motivating us to get the house packed up, so we can move out sooner.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

some good falls in the 3 hours since 9am.

Are you under that orange “52?”

not quite… we have had 20mms or close to! Lovely stuff and it is getting heavy again!

bon008 said:

Oooh, we have some smatterings about..

Hope it increases, and heads for the fires. And suburbia, too! Mind you, the one good thing about this hot weather is that it’s motivating us to get the house packed up, so we can move out sooner.

looks good Bon, and looks like more coming!

pain master said:

bon008 said:

Oooh, we have some smatterings about..

Hope it increases, and heads for the fires. And suburbia, too! Mind you, the one good thing about this hot weather is that it’s motivating us to get the house packed up, so we can move out sooner.

looks good Bon, and looks like more coming!

Yep :) We have had a short burst of very slow, heavy rain. The sort that doesn’t wet much but makes a hot day feel infinitely better.

I’m flat out running that 15+ kg of clothes through the washing machine.. just trying to get it all dry, now, but I won’t be upset if the rain comes back :)

bon008 said:

pain master said:

bon008 said:

Oooh, we have some smatterings about..

Hope it increases, and heads for the fires. And suburbia, too! Mind you, the one good thing about this hot weather is that it’s motivating us to get the house packed up, so we can move out sooner.

looks good Bon, and looks like more coming!

Yep :) We have had a short burst of very slow, heavy rain. The sort that doesn’t wet much but makes a hot day feel infinitely better.

I’m flat out running that 15+ kg of clothes through the washing machine.. just trying to get it all dry, now, but I won’t be upset if the rain comes back :)

you have plenty of time bon… no need to stress nor rush.

pain master said:

you have plenty of time bon… no need to stress nor rush.

I’m just rushing myself, because I want to get them out of the house :) Falling over piles of clothes all over the place at the moment! & if I don’t get them dry today, it’ll be another week or so, according to the rain forecast.

bon008 said:

Oooh, we have some smatterings about..

Hope it increases, and heads for the fires. And suburbia, too! Mind you, the one good thing about this hot weather is that it’s motivating us to get the house packed up, so we can move out sooner.

Hope you’re getting plenty by now Bon.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

some good falls in the 3 hours since 9am.

Are you under that orange “52?”

not quite… we have had 20mms or close to! Lovely stuff and it is getting heavy again!

They said on the teev tonight that our turn starts tomorrow.

17.9°C and forecast to reach a dizzying high of 22°C today, might get a little windy though

Temperature 17.9°C
Dew Point 15.7°C
Feels Like 17.9°C
Relative Humidity 87%
Wind SSW 53km/h
Wind Gusts 78km/h
Pressure 1015.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 4.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Should be raining here by this afternoon. The clods are gathering so the signs are appearing.

Huh. Well now we have a Severe Thunderstorm warning:

http://www.ewn.com.au/alerts/2011-12-05-054900-23796-865/alert.aspx

Just hope it holds off until I have reached home. The suburb where I work is coastal so gets some pretty hairy storms, but where I live we seem to have a little pocket of calm.

Good to see rain near Gingin and Augusta – hopefully it will finally put those fires out!

21mms yesterday. Today, it is bucketing down!

pain master said:

21mms yesterday. Today, it is bucketing down!

No bucketing around here. Spitting is all it could be called but it’s wetter than it was yesterday.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

21mms yesterday. Today, it is bucketing down!

No bucketing around here. Spitting is all it could be called but it’s wetter than it was yesterday.

28.5mm today. 50mm total over the last 2. Switpela!

15.2°C and looks like it may reach another dizzying height of 22°C today

Temperature 15.2°C
Dew Point 12.3°C
Feels Like 15.2°C
Relative Humidity 83%
Wind SW 25km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1016.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.2
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.2mm / 0.0mm

as always good personal updates of what’s happening weatherwise.

adelaide is fine this year. the clay is still cracking despite some light rain – we had 25mm in one 2 day burst last month.

Yay!!!

:)

bon008 said:

Yay!!!

:)

go perth – but don’t take it all – we need some on friday.

bon008 said:

Yay!!!

:)

a bit of rain there :)

trichome said:

15.2°C and looks like it may reach another dizzying height of 22°C today

Temperature 15.2°C
Dew Point 12.3°C
Feels Like 15.2°C
Relative Humidity 83%
Wind SW 25km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1016.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.2
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.2mm / 0.0mm

I’ve got a jacket on. It’s dropped to 20c here.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

15.2°C and looks like it may reach another dizzying height of 22°C today

Temperature 15.2°C
Dew Point 12.3°C
Feels Like 15.2°C
Relative Humidity 83%
Wind SW 25km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1016.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.2
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.2mm / 0.0mm

I’ve got a jacket on. It’s dropped to 20c here.

we got some rain coming :)
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite/nsw

justin said:

as always good personal updates of what’s happening weatherwise.

adelaide is fine this year. the clay is still cracking despite some light rain – we had 25mm in one 2 day burst last month.

So how do you compensate for the rainfall or lack of? Do you spend a lot of time hosing or sprinkling or use a lot of water crystals?

bon008 said:

Yay!!!

:)

I can see you smiling from over here.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

15.2°C and looks like it may reach another dizzying height of 22°C today

Temperature 15.2°C
Dew Point 12.3°C
Feels Like 15.2°C
Relative Humidity 83%
Wind SW 25km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1016.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.2
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.2mm / 0.0mm

I’ve got a jacket on. It’s dropped to 20c here.

we got some rain coming :)
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite/nsw

Looks like it. I remind you that’s the stuff that went over us and there was very little wet in it.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

I’ve got a jacket on. It’s dropped to 20c here.

we got some rain coming :)
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite/nsw

Looks like it. I remind you that’s the stuff that went over us and there was very little wet in it.

“that is the stuff that went over us”

it hasn’t even reached us yet, how could it have already gone over ? :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

we got some rain coming :)
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite/nsw

Looks like it. I remind you that’s the stuff that went over us and there was very little wet in it.

“that is the stuff that went over us”

it hasn’t even reached us yet, how could it have already gone over ? :)

You wait and see. I bet it’s just a sprinkle.

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

ha, ha, ha :) told ya :)

we are about to get some too by the look of it outside :)

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

:)
let there be more of that.

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

pleased to hear you finally got some :)

lazy day today. I had difficultly getting to sleep last night. Might do some sewing later.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

pleased to hear you finally got some :)

Ditto. re: plased you got some. I’m still waiting for mine.

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

nice writing – and we could do with some of that rain as well

trichome said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

ha, ha, ha :) told ya :)

we are about to get some too by the look of it outside :)

Smarty pants!

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

:)
let there be more of that.

And there was. We’ve had 65mls from 9 this morning till 5 this arvo. It’s back to just spitting now though. A total of 85 in the last 3 days.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

pleased to hear you finally got some :)

Ditto. re: plased you got some. I’m still waiting for mine.

I’ll say one for you RB.

justin said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

nice writing – and we could do with some of that rain as well

I’ll include you when I ask for a bit for RB. That OK with you?

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

We’ve had nice rain overnight. Not heavy just steady. The sort of rain that gets into the ground.

20mls in the guage. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Now the trees are drooping with the weight of the water instead of the dryness.

ha, ha, ha :) told ya :)

we are about to get some too by the look of it outside :)

nice steady rain coming down :)

Smarty pants!

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

ha, ha, ha :) told ya :)

we are about to get some too by the look of it outside :)

Smarty pants!

nice steady rain coming down :)

this week in maxima

30°C 27°C 30°C 28°C 27°C 28°C 29°C

lots of rain :)

roughbarked said:

this week in maxima

30°C 27°C 30°C 28°C 27°C 28°C 29°C

some would consider that nice, but not me. Too hot!

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

this week in maxima

30°C 27°C 30°C 28°C 27°C 28°C 29°C

some would consider that nice, but not me. Too hot!

I almost consider it too cool. Too cool for ripening tomatoes. Beautiful weather otherwise.

roughbarked said:

this week in maxima

30°C 27°C 30°C 28°C 27°C 28°C 29°C

Gosh that’s freezing. LOL.

trichome said:

lots of rain :)

Na na na na na!

36ºC here in Atherton today. It is always cooler up here and the coastal people come this way to escape the heat. GF said at home we hit 38ºC which is the highest temp we have seen in Mangolia.

painmaster said:

36ºC here in Atherton today. It is always cooler up here and the coastal people come this way to escape the heat. GF said at home we hit 38ºC which is the highest temp we have seen in Mangolia.

Records are crashing all over the place so it’s T’vills turn.

heading for a scorcher of 24°C today

Temperature 17.2°C
Dew Point 15.7°C
Feels Like 17.2°C
Relative Humidity 91%
Wind WSW 24km/h
Wind Gusts 30km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 1.7
Rain since 9am/last hr 10.6mm / 0.0mm

Raining here. Rained all night actually. I so love waking to the sound of rain. It’s a bit cool and we’re not going to see any sun today that’s for sure. Back into the trackies I guess. I can handle it.

Hope the weather you’re getting is how you want it too.

pomolo said:

Raining here. Rained all night actually. I so love waking to the sound of rain. It’s a bit cool and we’re not going to see any sun today that’s for sure. Back into the trackies I guess. I can handle it.

Hope the weather you’re getting is how you want it too.

So good you’re getting some rain.
Perfect here, sunny and a slight breeze.

pomolo said:

Raining here. Rained all night actually. I so love waking to the sound of rain. It’s a bit cool and we’re not going to see any sun today that’s for sure. Back into the trackies I guess. I can handle it.

Hope the weather you’re getting is how you want it too.

looks like you will get some dampness pom! We might get a little bit…

Monday looks like being a wet one :)

painmaster said:

Monday looks like being a wet one :)

all I got was enough to stick a sheet of newspaper to the footpath.

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I reckon’ you have pinched the rest of Australia’s weather this year Potter!

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh My God!!! Storm hit, hail is hitting the windows ,wrecking my garden and leaves flying.
Patios flooded…

I reckon’ you have pinched the rest of Australia’s weather this year Potter!

I reckon I must have! I didn’t mean to. I know my rain guage was empty as I flushed it out this morning. It overflowed. Already started the clean up and replanting. Unblocked patio drain and ripped out hard to pull weeds, stomped on scores of snails and scooped them up for chookies on the shovel.
Picked up and re-tied flattened tomatoes and caps. I’m drenched. I can’t get to use the water in the pondy tub as we’ve had too much rain and it’s been overflowing regularly.
Time for an iced coffee.

Holey crap, now for Round 2!! It’s gone very dark over.

Happy Potter said:

Holey crap, now for Round 2!! It’s gone very dark over.

http://www.essentialenergy.com.au/content/stormtracker

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Raining here. Rained all night actually. I so love waking to the sound of rain. It’s a bit cool and we’re not going to see any sun today that’s for sure. Back into the trackies I guess. I can handle it.

Hope the weather you’re getting is how you want it too.

looks like you will get some dampness pom! We might get a little bit…

Another inch and there are storms all over the place.

nice day today, bit of rain, bit of sun, mainly overcast, not too hot, but very humid :)

Happy Potter said:

Holey crap, now for Round 2!! It’s gone very dark over.

Stretch out your arm. Not the one with the bad shoulder. I’ll saveyou.

Seriously…I hope all is ok.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Holey crap, now for Round 2!! It’s gone very dark over.

Stretch out your arm. Not the one with the bad shoulder. I’ll saveyou.

Seriously…I hope all is ok.

I squelch when I walk lol. Panadol osteo for L shoulder.. drs appt monday 9 am. My bets on arthritis as I know I didn’t do anything to cause it to be painful. At least the bad side is now the good side!

trichome said:

nice day today, bit of rain, bit of sun, mainly overcast, not too hot, but very humid :)

We could share some rain if you’re needy TC.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

nice day today, bit of rain, bit of sun, mainly overcast, not too hot, but very humid :)

We could share some rain if you’re needy TC.

TC

yep we need another TC maybe through townsville again :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

nice day today, bit of rain, bit of sun, mainly overcast, not too hot, but very humid :)

We could share some rain if you’re needy TC.

TC

yep we need another TC maybe through townsville again :)

I could be paying you a complement as in Top Cat you know. In fact it’s just a shortened Trichome. I could make it Tri if that’s better.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

nice day today, bit of rain, bit of sun, mainly overcast, not too hot, but very humid :)

We could share some rain if you’re needy TC.

TC

yep we need another TC maybe through townsville again :)

what for the entertainment value? Still cleaning up after the last one!

no lunar eclipse for us tonight…. there’s lightning and thunder a plenty! That means clods.

painmaster said:

no lunar eclipse for us tonight…. there’s lightning and thunder a plenty! That means clods.

My thoughts too. Would have been a beauty to see too.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

We could share some rain if you’re needy TC.

TC

yep we need another TC maybe through townsville again :)

I could be paying you a complement as in Top Cat you know. In fact it’s just a shortened Trichome. I could make it Tri if that’s better.

ok i get it now :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

TC

yep we need another TC maybe through townsville again :)

I could be paying you a complement as in Top Cat you know. In fact it’s just a shortened Trichome. I could make it Tri if that’s better.

ok i get it now :)

I’m just a lazy typist.

Lightning and thunder are closing in around us so I might go have a shower in case we have a blackout as well. G’night y’all.

41 mm of rain today, inc’ 22 mm in 15 mins. The local race meeting was a washout as the track flooded. Flash floods in some areas.
And its bloody raining again.

Happy Potter said:

41 mm of rain today, inc’ 22 mm in 15 mins. The local race meeting was a washout as the track flooded. Flash floods in some areas.
And its bloody raining again.

what a year – this is about the third storm youse guys have had!

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

41 mm of rain today, inc’ 22 mm in 15 mins. The local race meeting was a washout as the track flooded. Flash floods in some areas.
And its bloody raining again.

what a year – this is about the third storm youse guys have had!

Now it’s just throwing it down! It’s deafening!

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

41 mm of rain today, inc’ 22 mm in 15 mins. The local race meeting was a washout as the track flooded. Flash floods in some areas.
And its bloody raining again.

what a year – this is about the third storm youse guys have had!

Now it’s just throwing it down! It’s deafening!

despite the hard work put in by your storm clods Potter, the highest totals recorded in Victoria from 9am yesterday to 5am this morning was just short of 50mm. Mackay on the central Queensland coast has proven that no matter how wet you think you are, there is always somewhere else that gets wetter then you. The BOM raingauge out at Homebush, just west of Mackay has recorded 103mm for the same time period…

My nearest town got 7 mm. I recorded 5 mm. It rained here during the eclipse but I did get one photo through thin cloud cover at the beginning.

Nice one Roughy, too much clod cover here.

painmaster said:

Nice one Roughy, too much clod cover here.

Yes, the night was too cloddy here too. This shot was captured through thin, high cloud cover. The eclipse was over, the next time I saw the glow of the moon behind the thinner high cloud cover

roughbarked said:

My nearest town got 7 mm. I recorded 5 mm. It rained here during the eclipse but I did get one photo through thin cloud cover at the beginning.

Thanks for what you could capture anyway RB. I couldn’t see nuffin. Too much cloud like most of Q’ld.

Not a cloud in the sky this morning. Suns is up high & hot already. We never actually got the storm (s) that moved past us last night. The sky was alive with electrical activity but I don’t think we got one drop of rain. Haven’t checked the guage yet.

Funny how you can have all that commotion going on and still not get any rain from it. I’d like to think that those that needed it got some anyway. The good side is that we missed all the severity that can go with it too.

pomolo said:

Not a cloud in the sky this morning. Suns is up high & hot already. We never actually got the storm (s) that moved past us last night. The sky was alive with electrical activity but I don’t think we got one drop of rain. Haven’t checked the guage yet.

Funny how you can have all that commotion going on and still not get any rain from it. I’d like to think that those that needed it got some anyway. The good side is that we missed all the severity that can go with it too.

same. We had crackling and lightning and banging and thumping, and a storm as well. But no rain.

In case you were wondering, it’s 33c here at 9am. I WANT MY POOL.

24.3°C here.. humidity is at 61%

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

did you offer it a biscuit?

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

what a year – this is about the third storm youse guys have had!

Now it’s just throwing it down! It’s deafening!

despite the hard work put in by your storm clods Potter, the highest totals recorded in Victoria from 9am yesterday to 5am this morning was just short of 50mm. Mackay on the central Queensland coast has proven that no matter how wet you think you are, there is always somewhere else that gets wetter then you. The BOM raingauge out at Homebush, just west of Mackay has recorded 103mm for the same time period…

Yes absolutely.. I remember living in Mackay and the rain being like a wall of water. Down south that sort of rain is rare and never lasts long, 10 minutes or so. We’re too low lying to cope with longer than that. This lot of moisture is very unusual.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

did you offer it a biscuit?

and a cup of tea?

roughbarked said:

My nearest town got 7 mm. I recorded 5 mm. It rained here during the eclipse but I did get one photo through thin cloud cover at the beginning.

good for you RB. I too saw only the beginning of it in a break in the clouds. I didn’t bother getting a camera out though as I didn’t think I could get a good photo with mine.

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

My nearest town got 7 mm. I recorded 5 mm. It rained here during the eclipse but I did get one photo through thin cloud cover at the beginning.

good for you RB. I too saw only the beginning of it in a break in the clouds. I didn’t bother getting a camera out though as I didn’t think I could get a good photo with mine.

As usual I forgot to go outside and look….actually was in bed by then

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

Wot sort? Nothing dangerous I hope. Seeing them around the yard is one thing (had a whip snake a few days ago) but in a confined space sends shivers down my spine.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

Wot sort? Nothing dangerous I hope. Seeing them around the yard is one thing (had a whip snake a few days ago) but in a confined space sends shivers down my spine.

Don’t know Pom. Don’t like ‘em inside!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

Wot sort? Nothing dangerous I hope. Seeing them around the yard is one thing (had a whip snake a few days ago) but in a confined space sends shivers down my spine.

Don’t know Pom. Don’t like ‘em inside!

OOooooooo. I agree with you.

Big Thunder Outside!

Nothing on the radar!

painmaster said:

Big Thunder Outside!

Nothing on the radar!

I just had a look and that’s strange. Your area is included in the T storm range though.
We have some beauties heading our way.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

Big Thunder Outside!

Nothing on the radar!

I just had a look and that’s strange. Your area is included in the T storm range though.
We have some beauties heading our way.

A big cell has just exploded behind Mt Stuart. Looks like it will disappear as quickly as it appeared!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

Big Thunder Outside!

Nothing on the radar!

I just had a look and that’s strange. Your area is included in the T storm range though.
We have some beauties heading our way.

A big cell has just exploded behind Mt Stuart. Looks like it will disappear as quickly as it appeared!

So it has. You live in a strange place. When is a storm not a storm?

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

I just had a look and that’s strange. Your area is included in the T storm range though.
We have some beauties heading our way.

A big cell has just exploded behind Mt Stuart. Looks like it will disappear as quickly as it appeared!

So it has. You live in a strange place. When is a storm not a storm?

when its just a stupid rumbling clod!

belting down again :)

roughbarked said:

My nearest town got 7 mm. I recorded 5 mm. It rained here during the eclipse but I did get one photo through thin cloud cover at the beginning.

thanks – nice shot – twas too cloudy here

painmaster said:

30.5ºC here and 71% humidity. And a snake has decided to come into the office…

wats that got to do with the weater? – altho’ – eek!! – come to think of it – leave your doors open and go down to the local until it leaves might be a good option.

there’s a bloke with a doctorate in biology comes and collects our friendly snakes here.

It’s a wait and see day here. Needed to lower the blinds at first because the sun was strong and hot. Now it’s only clods in the sky.

Once again the storms missed us last night but we have had a good week with rainfall so we didn’t need any more atm.

we got a really good drop of rain last night without storms, nice to go to sleep with :)

trichome said:

we got a really good drop of rain last night without storms, nice to go to sleep with :)

I love going to sleep with the sound of rain :)

bluegreen said:

trichome said:

we got a really good drop of rain last night without storms, nice to go to sleep with :)

I love going to sleep with the sound of rain :)

yes very comforting i find :)

Maximum 27°C 27°C 27°C 31°C 31°C 29°C 25°C
Minimum 13°C 13°C 12°C 14°C 18°C 19°C 17°C

another great week for this time of year. Not greatest for growing stuff though.

Normally here.. all we need is water to turn a six inch nail into a crowbar, according to old man Macwilliam from Macwilliams wines

trichome said:

we got a really good drop of rain last night without storms, nice to go to sleep with :)

Sometimes I wonder if that sort of rain will ever become common again.

roughbarked said:

Maximum 27°C 27°C 27°C 31°C 31°C 29°C 25°C
Minimum 13°C 13°C 12°C 14°C 18°C 19°C 17°C

another great week for this time of year. Not greatest for growing stuff though.

Normally here.. all we need is water to turn a six inch nail into a crowbar, according to old man Macwilliam from Macwilliams wines

I love that saying. It’s a goodie.

we wish we had a start to the day at 7º…. :(

Currently 27.7º with a feels like 32.3º and heading for a top of 34º with no rain in sight. Currently 90% humidity.

Temperature 19.7°C cloudy and heading for a top of 23°C today :)
Dew Point 17.8°C
Feels Like 19.7°C
Relative Humidity 89%
Wind SW 14km/h
Wind Gusts 19km/h
Pressure 1012.6hPa rising
Fire Danger 1.6
Rain since 9am/last hr 6.0mm / 0.0mm

Cold. lol.

Temperature 17.2°C heading to 23°C
Dew Point 15.2°C
Feels Like 17.2°C
Relative Humidity 88%
Wind SW 18km/h
Wind Gusts 26km/h
Pressure 1017.1hPa
Fire Danger 1.6
Rain since 9am/last hr 6.0mm / 0.6mm

Could be up for the first Cyclone for the season around Wednesday, but this one looks to travel down the coast. Might make some good surf for Surfers Paradise on Xmas Day.

painmaster said:

Could be up for the first Cyclone for the season around Wednesday, but this one looks to travel down the coast. Might make some good surf for Surfers Paradise on Xmas Day.

if so, that is close to where i am, got any links ? :)

trichome said:

painmaster said:

Could be up for the first Cyclone for the season around Wednesday, but this one looks to travel down the coast. Might make some good surf for Surfers Paradise on Xmas Day.

if so, that is close to where i am, got any links ? :)

The BOM says:

IDQ10810
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Brisbane

Tropical Cyclone 3-day outlook for The Coral Sea
Issued at 1:45pm EST on Monday the 19th of December 2011 and valid until end of
Thursday

Existing Cyclones in the Eastern Region:
Nil.

Potential Cyclones:
A low situated southeast of Papua New Guinea is moving in a south-southwesterly
direction and is expected to develop further over the next couple of days. The
low is expected to remain offshore and not affect the Queensland coast.

Likelihood of a tropical cyclone in the Eastern Region on:

Tuesday: Low
Wednesday:High
Thursday: High

NOTE: The likelihood is an estimate of the chance of each system being a
tropical cyclone in the Region for each day.
Very low: less than 5% Low: 5% – 20%,
Moderate: 20% – 50% High: Over 50%

The area of coverage for this outlook is the Coral Sea and northern Tasman Sea
west of 160E.

Further information on Tropical Cyclones is available at:
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone

The fact is it possibly will remain off the coast, may or may not produce the swell I mentioned…

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

Could be up for the first Cyclone for the season around Wednesday, but this one looks to travel down the coast. Might make some good surf for Surfers Paradise on Xmas Day.

if so, that is close to where i am, got any links ? :)

The BOM says:

IDQ10810
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Brisbane

Tropical Cyclone 3-day outlook for The Coral Sea
Issued at 1:45pm EST on Monday the 19th of December 2011 and valid until end of
Thursday

Existing Cyclones in the Eastern Region:
Nil.

Potential Cyclones:
A low situated southeast of Papua New Guinea is moving in a south-southwesterly
direction and is expected to develop further over the next couple of days. The
low is expected to remain offshore and not affect the Queensland coast.

Likelihood of a tropical cyclone in the Eastern Region on:

Tuesday: Low
Wednesday:High
Thursday: High

NOTE: The likelihood is an estimate of the chance of each system being a
tropical cyclone in the Region for each day.
Very low: less than 5% Low: 5% – 20%,
Moderate: 20% – 50% High: Over 50%

The area of coverage for this outlook is the Coral Sea and northern Tasman Sea
west of 160E.

Further information on Tropical Cyclones is available at:
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone

The fact is it possibly will remain off the coast, may or may not produce the swell I mentioned…

thanks :)

http://www.bom.gov.au/qld/forecasts/cyclone.shtml

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite/

Cyclone Emergency Kit
http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/565407/Your_Cyclone_Emergency_Kit#Post565407

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/tc.shtml

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html

what are all these random links Trichome?

just having a bit of fun discovering weatherzone forum links :)

like this one :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOmtNRDJg4&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOmtNRDJg4

Temperature 22.0°C heading to 26°C today and maybe a shower or two :)
Dew Point 16.1°C
Feels Like 22.0°C
Relative Humidity 69%
Wind N 20km/h
Wind Gusts 35km/h
Pressure 1012.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.9
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

trichome said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOmtNRDJg4

You da wevver man!

Temperature 20.3°C and heading for another pleasant top of 24°C
Dew Point 18.1°C
Feels Like 20.3°C
Relative Humidity 87%
Wind WSW 16km/h
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1015.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 1.8
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 24.3°C and heading for a top of 24°C (past that now)
Dew Point 18.0°C
Feels Like 24.3°C
Relative Humidity 68%
Wind E 27km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1012.9hPa steady
Fire Danger 5.2
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.2mm / 0.0mm

I count my lucky stars that we don’t get the extremes of the Pilbara..

They had almost 50C yesterday!

colliewa said:

I count my lucky stars that we don’t get the extremes of the Pilbara..

They had almost 50C yesterday!

I can’t even imagine trying to live in that sort of heat :(

bluegreen said:

colliewa said:

I count my lucky stars that we don’t get the extremes of the Pilbara..

They had almost 50C yesterday!

I can’t even imagine trying to live in that sort of heat :(

When I worked on the rig (offshore) we had a 57 on an equipment gauge, sitting on a bench on a pile of rags.. And it was humid.

Poor welder was working, Boot, overalls, leather gauntlet gloves, cap, leather apron, full face welder mask – out in it. He could do 10 min at a time before going inside to cool down. His boots were filling up with sweat. I only had helmet, overall, boots and cotton gloves, but I was between vessels (separators) that were 60-70C. These vessels are like rounded off busses.

Hottest place in WA is usually Marble Bar. they have some amazing temp stats. One I remember was over 160 days in a row over 100F/37C.
Think of the electricity costs…

colliewa said:

bluegreen said:

colliewa said:

I count my lucky stars that we don’t get the extremes of the Pilbara..

They had almost 50C yesterday!

I can’t even imagine trying to live in that sort of heat :(

When I worked on the rig (offshore) we had a 57 on an equipment gauge, sitting on a bench on a pile of rags.. And it was humid.

Poor welder was working, Boot, overalls, leather gauntlet gloves, cap, leather apron, full face welder mask – out in it. He could do 10 min at a time before going inside to cool down. His boots were filling up with sweat. I only had helmet, overall, boots and cotton gloves, but I was between vessels (separators) that were 60-70C. These vessels are like rounded off busses.

Hottest place in WA is usually Marble Bar. they have some amazing temp stats. One I remember was over 160 days in a row over 100F/37C.
Think of the electricity costs…

shakes head in amazement

bluegreen said:

colliewa said:

bluegreen said:

I can’t even imagine trying to live in that sort of heat :(

When I worked on the rig (offshore) we had a 57 on an equipment gauge, sitting on a bench on a pile of rags.. And it was humid.

Poor welder was working, Boot, overalls, leather gauntlet gloves, cap, leather apron, full face welder mask – out in it. He could do 10 min at a time before going inside to cool down. His boots were filling up with sweat. I only had helmet, overall, boots and cotton gloves, but I was between vessels (separators) that were 60-70C. These vessels are like rounded off busses.

Hottest place in WA is usually Marble Bar. they have some amazing temp stats. One I remember was over 160 days in a row over 100F/37C.
Think of the electricity costs…

shakes head in amazement

Earlier in the year I was offered a job fly-in-fly-out around Tom Price, not far from Marble Bar.
That’s on a 2/1 roster, I could earn as much in my current job if I did those hours..
And that’s 10min from home! And overtime is always available if I get greedy. I’m not.

i think you may get bit of rain this time pom :)

colliewa said:

I count my lucky stars that we don’t get the extremes of the Pilbara..

They had almost 50C yesterday!

I saw that Roebourne had a hot one.

Morning. it’s sticky, 95% humidity. Pfft go away HU, I’m turning into a prune. I might try and grow a banana or pawpaw.

Happy Potter said:

Morning. it’s sticky, 95% humidity. Pfft go away HU, I’m turning into a prune. I might try and grow a banana or pawpaw.

I suggested to a young lady in town that she grow a mustache for Movember, but he didn’t think she could.

I said to her she should never say that until she tried.

Happy Potter said:

Morning. it’s sticky, 95% humidity. Pfft go away HU, I’m turning into a prune. I might try and grow a banana or pawpaw.

speaking of which. One of my banana plants has a new flower and fruit on. About 9 hands of bananas on this one!

colliewa said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. it’s sticky, 95% humidity. Pfft go away HU, I’m turning into a prune. I might try and grow a banana or pawpaw.

I suggested to a young lady in town that she grow a mustache for Movember, but he didn’t think she could.

I said to her she should never say that until she tried.

Good advice :)

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. it’s sticky, 95% humidity. Pfft go away HU, I’m turning into a prune. I might try and grow a banana or pawpaw.

speaking of which. One of my banana plants has a new flower and fruit on. About 9 hands of bananas on this one!

Showoff.
lol

Temperature 21.6°C heading for 24°C
Dew Point 18.0°C
Feels Like 21.6°C
Relative Humidity 80%
Wind SE 33km/h
Wind Gusts 52km/h
Pressure 1008.6hPa
Fire Danger 3.5
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.0mm / -
a lovely cool windy showery start to the day

Temperature 19.3°C looking toward 28°C for sailing day, others call it boxing day, (some would have it cricket day), (other mad ones would call it shopping day)
Dew Point 16.3°C
Feels Like 19.3°C
Relative Humidity 83%
Wind SW 24km/h
Wind Gusts 31km/h
Pressure 1007.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.4
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 24.2°C and heading for 24°C well already past that, if only the wind would strengthen, love windy days :)
Dew Point 19.5°C
Feels Like 24.2°C
Relative Humidity 75%
Wind N 16km/h
Wind Gusts 22km/h
Pressure 1004.7hPa steady
Fire Danger 3.1
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 19.3°C and heading to 23°C, a lovely cool windy day, just how i like it :)
Dew Point 16.2°C
Feels Like 19.3°C
Relative Humidity 82%
Wind SW 33km/h
Wind Gusts 43km/h
Pressure 1008.2hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.1
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.4mm / 0.0mm

Sun is up. Not even a breath of breeze. What more could we ask?

pomolo said:

Sun is up. Not even a breath of breeze. What more could we ask?

perhaps a nice breeze to circulate the air :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

Sun is up. Not even a breath of breeze. What more could we ask?

perhaps a nice breeze to circulate the air :)

That’ll happen this arvo. And it is.

Temperature 18.2°C heading to a lovely 25°C today :)
Dew Point 12.6°C
Feels Like 18.2°C
Relative Humidity 70%
Wind SW 31km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1014.1hPa rising
Fire Danger 4.3
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Much the same as Trichromes weather reading, but with a top of 27C forcast. Just right :)

Temperature 19.6°C and going for a top of 24°C today, just how i like it wind and some rain for the garden :)
Dew Point 18.6°C
Feels Like 19.6°C
Relative Humidity 94%
Wind E 33km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1017.0hPa falling
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 16.4mm / 0.2mm

trichome said:

Temperature 19.6°C and going for a top of 24°C today, just how i like it wind and some rain for the garden :)
Dew Point 18.6°C
Feels Like 19.6°C
Relative Humidity 94%
Wind E 33km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1017.0hPa falling
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 16.4mm / 0.2mm

I like a breeze but you can have your 40km/h winds. Could use some of those mm of rain if you ‘ve got some to spare.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

Temperature 19.6°C and going for a top of 24°C today, just how i like it wind and some rain for the garden :)
Dew Point 18.6°C
Feels Like 19.6°C
Relative Humidity 94%
Wind E 33km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1017.0hPa falling
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 16.4mm / 0.2mm

I like a breeze but you can have your 40km/h winds. Could use some of those mm of rain if you ‘ve got some to spare.

40, nah, that is just a breeze, like it stronger than that :) i reckon you’ll be getting rain soon enough with the monsoon season upon us :)

humidity at 61% here, quite pleasant really :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

Temperature 19.6°C and going for a top of 24°C today, just how i like it wind and some rain for the garden :)
Dew Point 18.6°C
Feels Like 19.6°C
Relative Humidity 94%
Wind E 33km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1017.0hPa falling
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 16.4mm / 0.2mm

I like a breeze but you can have your 40km/h winds. Could use some of those mm of rain if you ‘ve got some to spare.

40, nah, that is just a breeze, like it stronger than that :) i reckon you’ll be getting rain soon enough with the monsoon season upon us :)

It’s been trying to rain since this morning. Lots of grey clods about.

Temperature 21.6°C heading to 25°C
Dew Point 15.4°C
Feels Like 21.6°C
Relative Humidity 68%
Wind SSW 14km/h
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1017.2hPa steady
Fire Danger 3.5
Rain since 9am/last hr – / -

Things are a bit out of kilt. I had to put bedsocks on last night. My feet were freezing. I don’t know what the minimum got down to but it must have been pretty low. All most unusual for this time of the year for us.

Temperature 23.6°C and headg for a top of 25°C today
Dew Point 14.6°C
Feels Like 23.6°C
Relative Humidity 57%
Wind E 16km/h
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1020.1hPa rising
Fire Danger 5.7
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

We have cloud cover here. Don’t imagine that it will rain though. Humidity has gone up to 65%. That much is a plus. It’s been sitting between 30 and 40 for at least a week.

yesterday’s 35^o^C got to 39^o^C. Wonder what today’s forecasted 35^o^C will get to?

bluegreen said:

yesterday’s 35^o^C got to 39^o^C. Wonder what today’s forecasted 35^o^C will get to?

Hope you stayed cool BG. Excessive heat is not nice.

bluegreen said:

yesterday’s 35^o^C got to 39^o^C. Wonder what today’s forecasted 35^o^C will get to?

today’s 35^o^C reached 40^o^C :(

Still no sign of rain. For another week at least. So we’ll keep hosing to keep the desperate alive.

Nights are still cold by our standards. Days are hot but not over the top as you would expect at this time of the year. What on earth am I complaining about anyway? It could be normal and I would be a grease spot.

had the aircon on all night. Overcast and thundery but little rain. Is supposed to be cooler today though, so that’s something.

Temperature 23.0°C and heading for a blistering top of 26°C, rather pleasant really, be nice if the wind picks up and the possible showers fri-sat happen :)
Dew Point 15.3°C
Feels Like 23.0°C
Relative Humidity 62%
Wind NNW 7km/h
Wind Gusts 13km/h
Pressure 1018.6hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.8
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

cool change came yesterday – what a relief.
the promised rain went east and south – none here.

Temperature 22.8°C and another top of 26°C today :)
Dew Point 18.1°C
Feels Like 22.8°C
Relative Humidity 75%
Wind NE 16km/h
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1015.3hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 21.5°C and on the move up to 27°C today :)
Dew Point 16.9°C
Feels Like 21.5°C
Relative Humidity 75%
Wind NNW 7km/h
Wind Gusts 11km/h
Pressure 1012.3hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.3
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Friday

A southerly change is pushing up the NSW coast, triggering isolated showers. A trough is causing patchy rain over northern NSW and southern QLD. Another trough in the west is bringing scattered storms to WA and western SA. Mostly clear elsewhere across the southeast under a high.
Issued Friday 04:56 EDT

well it passed 27 and we scored 31 today, rather warm :)

trichome said:

well it passed 27 and we scored 31 today, rather warm :)

We were very lucky today, a drop of rain and around 25…tomorrow should be the same without the rain, so gonna take the oppurtunity to cook a rather large lamb roast. Might not get the chance again for a while, I guess the heat will be back soon.

Muschee said:

trichome said:

well it passed 27 and we scored 31 today, rather warm :)

We were very lucky today, a drop of rain and around 25…tomorrow should be the same without the rain, so gonna take the oppurtunity to cook a rather large lamb roast. Might not get the chance again for a while, I guess the heat will be back soon.

we got a wee bit last night but not enough

Temperature 21.4°C going for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.0°C
Feels Like 21.4°C
Relative Humidity 86%
Wind SW 14km/h
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1015.7hPa steady
Fire Danger 1.9
Rain since 9am/last hr 7.0mm / 0.0mm

trichome said:

Muschee said:

trichome said:

well it passed 27 and we scored 31 today, rather warm :)

We were very lucky today, a drop of rain and around 25…tomorrow should be the same without the rain, so gonna take the oppurtunity to cook a rather large lamb roast. Might not get the chance again for a while, I guess the heat will be back soon.

we got a wee bit last night but not enough

Temperature 21.4°C going for 26°C today :)
Dew Point 19.0°C
Feels Like 21.4°C
Relative Humidity 86%
Wind SW 14km/h
Wind Gusts 24km/h
Pressure 1015.7hPa steady
Fire Danger 1.9
Rain since 9am/last hr 7.0mm / 0.0mm

We haven’t had any and I’m getting a bit anxious. They (Bureau) keep mentioning la nina but there isn’t much evidence as yet.

it’s raining, it’s raining! 20mm last night and still raining. Other parts of the garden were showing signs of heat stress/dehydration besides the banksia so this should give them a nice drink. Going to be cooler now for about a week so good for me and good for the garden too :)

Hot here. Just back from the markets and it was unpleasant strolling around the stalls. Too much sun.

Tomorrow is going to be a test. 36c is predicted for our closest town and we are usually a couple of steps higher than them. Probably inside all day with the aircon at full blast. Haven’t used it since well before Christmas. Humidity is still around 40%. Far too dry for us.

40%…looxery! Mid to late afternoon we’ve been dropping to around 20% humidity and as far down as 15% in the last few days. Right now it’s up in the 80s though.

buffy said:

40%…looxery! Mid to late afternoon we’ve been dropping to around 20% humidity and as far down as 15% in the last few days. Right now it’s up in the 80s though.

87% humidity here, but then it’s raining.

bluegreen said:

buffy said:

40%…looxery! Mid to late afternoon we’ve been dropping to around 20% humidity and as far down as 15% in the last few days. Right now it’s up in the 80s though.

87% humidity here, but then it’s raining.

very dry day here, 57% humidity and 31ºC…

It’s reached 34.5c and climbing fast here. Not going to be a pleasant day at all. I’m looking for inside jobs to do but they’re all housework. Also not pleasant.

Might just scan the dvd racks for something of interest.

pomolo said:

It’s reached 34.5c and climbing fast here. Not going to be a pleasant day at all. I’m looking for inside jobs to do but they’re all housework. Also not pleasant.

Might just scan the dvd racks for something of interest.

Temperature 26.6°C, lovely sea breeze here, looking for 28°C, maybe a shower :)
Dew Point 21.1°C
Feels Like 28.3°C
Relative Humidity 72%
Wind N 29km/h steady
Wind Gusts 39km/h
Pressure 1006.5hPa falling
Fire Danger 5.1
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

We are at 39.6c atm. Nothing moving outside.

pomolo said:

We are at 39.6c atm. Nothing moving outside.

27.5°C feels like 29.8°C here
nice breze :)

It got to 40.4c but has dropped by .1. Thank heavens!

pomolo said:

It got to 40.4c but has dropped by .1. Thank heavens!

yes that .1 drop will help :)

trichome said:

pomolo said:

It got to 40.4c but has dropped by .1. Thank heavens!

yes that .1 drop will help :)

Are you having a dig at me? I meant that the figures were starting to fall at last. As you can tell I have been a bit pre occupied with the temp today. My garden looks so sad.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

It got to 40.4c but has dropped by .1. Thank heavens!

yes that .1 drop will help :)

Are you having a dig at me? I meant that the figures were starting to fall at last. As you can tell I have been a bit pre occupied with the temp today. My garden looks so sad.

yeah :)
we just had a beautiful drop of rain, heavy shower for 1/2 an hour, cooled things a little, still 83% humidity :)

Where is this place that is 40C today? I’ve lost track of who is where here. I’m in South West Victoria (Hamilton area) and we have a rather pleasant day outside. Although I’ve been in my dark little room, so haven’t really seen any of it.

buffy said:

Where is this place that is 40C today? I’ve lost track of who is where here. I’m in South West Victoria (Hamilton area) and we have a rather pleasant day outside. Although I’ve been in my dark little room, so haven’t really seen any of it.

pomolo is in SE Qld I think.

Thanks……I’ll head home soon.

Here in S Vic we have had a sunny but cool breezy day. It’s 22 at the moment. I can cope with that.
You folks in the hotspots I feel for.

buffy said:

Where is this place that is 40C today? I’ve lost track of who is where here. I’m in South West Victoria (Hamilton area) and we have a rather pleasant day outside. Although I’ve been in my dark little room, so haven’t really seen any of it.

I’m in SEQ Buffy. About 40klm from the coast. Right now I wish I was on the coast. It’s still 36c here and 20% humidity @ 5:40pm.

orchid42 said:

Here in S Vic we have had a sunny but cool breezy day. It’s 22 at the moment. I can cope with that.
You folks in the hotspots I feel for.

I feel for me too!

Temperature 23.6°C heading for 28°C today
Dew Point 19.9°C
Feels Like 23.6°C
Relative Humidity 80%
Wind S 16km/h
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1009.7hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.6
Rain since 9am/last hr 4.2mm / 0.0mm

32.5c and 46%. D is closing all the windows so I guess that means the air con is about to be cranked up.

It’s hot and I’m hiding in the aircon.

pomolo said:

32.5c and 46%. D is closing all the windows so I guess that means the air con is about to be cranked up.

air con cranked up and the Tennis on TV :)

It’s 16 here, and wet. We are having the weirdest Summer. Christmas day it was hot and humid with hailstorms. New Years’ Day it was so hot and they predicted North Winds which are a big fire hazard. You can say one thing about our weather, it’s not boring!

Bubba Louie said:

It’s hot and I’m hiding in the aircon.

That’s where I’ve been too Bubba. We got visitors because they knew we had aircon.

Temperature 24.0°C looking for 30 today, hmm, a bit of a hot one
Dew Point 20.1°C
Feels Like 24.0°C
Relative Humidity 79%
Wind W 12km
Wind Gusts 20km/h
Pressure 1008.2hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.5
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Morning all,
We have a wild and windy morning here. The rain has been hammering down in huge bursts. I expected to find my Frangipanis all snapped off, but happily they’re OK.
Have a nice trip, Pom.
Glad your Grandbaby is safe, HP. How far along are we? It must have been thrilling to see the baby wave!
Have a greatest, everyone.

glad everything is OK for your daughter after that scare, HP.
Pomolo, hope your garden survives while you are away. I have gone away a couple of times before only to come back and find my garden half dead. It really puts off the idea of going away in hot weather, although sometimes there may be not much you could do about it even if you are home.

Temperature 21.1°C and looking at 25°C today and windy, spot on, love windy days, just need some rain for icing on the cake :)
Dew Point 13.5°C
Feels Like 21.1°C
Relative Humidity 62%
Wind SSW 38km/h
Wind Gusts 50km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 7.4
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Summer weather? where? lol
I have the heating on this morn.

cool and breezy here. Snow on Mt Buller last night.

orchid42 said:

Morning all,
We have a wild and windy morning here. The rain has been hammering down in huge bursts. I expected to find my Frangipanis all snapped off, but happily they’re OK.
Have a nice trip, Pom.
Glad your Grandbaby is safe, HP. How far along are we? It must have been thrilling to see the baby wave!
Have a greatest, everyone.

No rain here but it’s been cold and cloudy. Mrs. Daughter is just on 12 weeks O40 :D

hot hot hot, and no rain.

Temperature 22.4°C loking at 26°C today, i’m hoping for a bit more wind and some rain :)
Dew Point 14.8°C
Feels Like 22.4°C
Relative Humidity 62%
Wind NNW 5km/h
Wind Gusts 9km/h
Pressure 1015.8hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.5
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.2mm / 0.0mm

Weather hasn’t been above 26˚C all week but from today on it looks to have a warming trend..
31°C 32°C 33°C 35°C 37°C 38°C 38°C

roughbarked said:

Weather hasn’t been above 26˚C all week but from today on it looks to have a warming trend..
31°C 32°C 33°C 35°C 37°C 38°C 38°C

you think?

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Weather hasn’t been above 26˚C all week but from today on it looks to have a warming trend..
31°C 32°C 33°C 35°C 37°C 38°C 38°C

you think?

sometimes I do, yeah ;)

oh my goodness…. It is raining! First time in 30 days!

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

trichome said:

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

pain master said:

trichome said:

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

these new qld’ers hey bro :)

we have over cast here, so we hope for rain

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip

trichome said:

pain master said:

trichome said:

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

these new qld’ers hey bro :)

we have over cast here, so we hope for rain

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip

nah ah… my garden was dying with 30 days of over 31º without rain. That’s dry in anyone’s book.

We’ve had a dry day here for a change. In the last week we totalled 43mm in 3 days. Amazing.

pain master said:

trichome said:

pain master said:

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

these new qld’ers hey bro :)

we have over cast here, so we hope for rain

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip

nah ah… my garden was dying with 30 days of over 31º without rain. That’s dry in anyone’s book.

Not as dry as it gets here. Nowhere near.

Temperature 22.5°C heading to 25°C today. nice shower of rain last night, need a bit more for the garden yet though :)
Dew Point 16.3°C
Feels Like 22.5°C
Relative Humidity 68%
Wind E 20km/h
Wind Gusts 33km/h
Pressure 1016.0hPa rising
Fire Danger 4.1
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

pain master said:

trichome said:

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

our forecasters are always showing rain in towntown – i guess they have been wrong.

justin said:

pain master said:

trichome said:

send it down this way, we could do with a drop :)

get ya own. Our wet season should have started weeks ago but we have had nothing so far. its mine all mine!

20mm so far.

our forecasters are always showing rain in towntown – i guess they have been wrong.

our broadcasters announce every morning a chance of showers during the wet. Sometimes they say a chance of showers and a possible afternoon thunderstorm.

our favourite broadcast thanks to Townsville rain-shadow and the fact that our BOM Radar has been sprayed with WD-40 and is now water repellant is “showers and possible rain periods in a line north or Rollingstone and south of Ayr. The two nearest blobs on the map on the Bruce Hwy to the north and south of this city.

Temperature 22.4°C lookin’ at 25°C and a few showers :)
Dew Point 16.7°C
Feels Like 22.4°C
Relative Humidity 70%
Wind ENE 24km/h
Wind Gusts 41km/h
Pressure 1015.8hPa steady
Fire Danger 4.1
Rain since 9am/last hr 5.0mm / 0.0mm

I’ve noticed that all the weather sites tend to say 1-5 mm possibility, every day

roughbarked said:

I’ve noticed that all the weather sites tend to say 1-5 mm possibility, every day

that is quite normal for where i live :)

Temperature 21.0°C
Dew Point 19.3°C
Feels Like 21.0°C
Relative Humidity 90%
Wind E 24km/h
Wind Gusts 37km/h
Pressure 1017.2hPa falling
Fire Danger 2.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 1.2mm / 1.0mm
we had about 15mm rain yesterday and so far today, beautiful weather this, just the way i like it, some rain, a bit of wind, a few clear patches, lovely and no need to water the garden :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

I’ve noticed that all the weather sites tend to say 1-5 mm possibility, every day

that is quite normal for where i live :)

on days that we get a dew, yes. The CSIRO records the dew as precipitation.

Temperature 20.0°C lookin’ at 28°C with a few showers, beautiful stuff :)
Dew Point 19.2°C
Feels Like 20.0°C
Relative Humidity 95%
Wind SW 31km/h
Wind Gusts 39km/h
Pressure 1012.3hPa falling
Fire Danger 1.9
Rain since 9am/last hr 12.8mm / 0.0mm

some welcome showers this morning. still supposed to get hot again today though.

Temperature 23.8°C and heading to 28°C a nice breeze with the odd shower or two, lovely stuff :)
Dew Point 19.7°C
Feels Like 23.8°C
Relative Humidity 78%
Wind SSW 20km/h
Wind Gusts 30km/h
Pressure 1014.5hPa rising
Fire Danger 3.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 37.2°C

Dew Point 10.5°C°C
Feels Like 35°C
Relative Humidity 21%
Wind SW 9km/h
Wind Gusts 22km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa
Fire Danger 5.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

roughbarked said:

Temperature 37.2°C

Dew Point 10.5°C°C
Feels Like 35°C
Relative Humidity 21%
Wind SW 9km/h
Wind Gusts 22km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa
Fire Danger 5.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

a tad hotter than here, i think it got to 28

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

Temperature 37.2°C

Dew Point 10.5°C°C
Feels Like 35°C
Relative Humidity 21%
Wind SW 9km/h
Wind Gusts 22km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa
Fire Danger 5.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

a tad hotter than here, i think it got to 28

Yesterday, this which was past by then, dropped the temp from 37ºC to 22ºC in about 20 minutes.. left 4 mm behind and moved on.

Oooh, very dark and threatening RB. Good photo.

orchid42 said:

Oooh, very dark and threatening RB. Good photo.

Thanks.. it is just a record of events.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

Temperature 37.2°C

Dew Point 10.5°C°C
Feels Like 35°C
Relative Humidity 21%
Wind SW 9km/h
Wind Gusts 22km/h
Pressure 1012.5hPa
Fire Danger 5.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

a tad hotter than here, i think it got to 28

Yesterday, this which was past by then, dropped the temp from 37ºC to 22ºC in about 20 minutes.. left 4 mm behind and moved on.

awesome shot – we had that sunset too (i’m told0 but i missed it – so thanks

Temperature 22.5°C another day heading for 28°C with the odd shower or two, perfection :)
Dew Point 21.5°C
Feels Like 22.5°C
Relative Humidity 94%
Wind SSW 24km/h
Wind Gusts 30km/h
Pressure 1014.6hPa steady
Fire Danger 1.8
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

Temperature 21.0°C heading for 27°C and thunderstorms, beautiful :)
Dew Point 18.4°C
Feels Like 21.0°C
Relative Humidity 85%
Wind SW 25km/h
Wind Gusts 35km/h
Pressure 1015.2hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.5
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.0mm / 0.0mm

A cooler week ahead
33°C 32°C 33°C 35°C 35°C 36°C 33°C

Our forecast is for rain and showers all next week. Yeah! Right!

pomolo said:

Our forecast is for rain and showers all next week. Yeah! Right!

interesting Low forming up in the Coral Sea on Wednesday. you might see some rain from that at the end of the week.

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Our forecast is for rain and showers all next week. Yeah! Right!

interesting Low forming up in the Coral Sea on Wednesday. you might see some rain from that at the end of the week.

The 100% guarantee of rain next week was gone when I checked the site this arvo. We shall see what we shall see.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Our forecast is for rain and showers all next week. Yeah! Right!

interesting Low forming up in the Coral Sea on Wednesday. you might see some rain from that at the end of the week.

The 100% guarantee of rain next week was gone when I checked the site this arvo. We shall see what we shall see.

ripped this off the weather forum but:

(1) Upper trough develops and surface trough deepens from tomorrow.
(2) monsoon trough begins moving south tomorrow
(3) The low level flow becomes more Easterly to North-Easterly and brings in bulk moisture into the upper/surface trough causing widespread rainfalls from late tomorrow onwards.
(4) Good rain over most of Queensland over the next week (50+mm)

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

The summer has been more cool than hot, so far, but yeah, no rain on the horizon. I drip watered the pumpkin vine and trees and the hose has been going since morning.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

The summer has been more cool than hot, so far, but yeah, no rain on the horizon. I drip watered the pumpkin vine and trees and the hose has been going since morning.

If My hose isn’t constantly running it is because She who worries about bills keeps turning it off, on me.

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

If I get any complaints at work about the heat this week, I’ll be screamin at them WHATS WHY I HATE SUMMER They constantly whinge at me cause I love the cool & rain

I’m with you BG I want my winter too

Muschee said:

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

If I get any complaints at work about the heat this week, I’ll be screamin at them WHATS WHY I HATE SUMMER They constantly whinge at me cause I love the cool & rain

I’m with you BG I want my winter too

You two can have winter, I’ll have spring and autumn thanks :D

Hi Muschee!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

interesting Low forming up in the Coral Sea on Wednesday. you might see some rain from that at the end of the week.

The 100% guarantee of rain next week was gone when I checked the site this arvo. We shall see what we shall see.

ripped this off the weather forum but:

(1) Upper trough develops and surface trough deepens from tomorrow.
(2) monsoon trough begins moving south tomorrow
(3) The low level flow becomes more Easterly to North-Easterly and brings in bulk moisture into the upper/surface trough causing widespread rainfalls from late tomorrow onwards.
(4) Good rain over most of Queensland over the next week (50+mm)

Lotsa clods overhead today.

Muschee said:

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

If I get any complaints at work about the heat this week, I’ll be screamin at them WHATS WHY I HATE SUMMER They constantly whinge at me cause I love the cool & rain

I’m with you BG I want my winter too

Cripes! We haven’t even had any summer yet!

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

The summer has been more cool than hot, so far, but yeah, no rain on the horizon. I drip watered the pumpkin vine and trees and the hose has been going since morning.

If My hose isn’t constantly running it is because She who worries about bills keeps turning it off, on me.

You definately have a good woman there RB.

Muschee said:

bluegreen said:

looking at this trend of low to mid 30s and no rain continuing for a while. The hose is going to get a good workout methinks. I WANT MY WINTER!

If I get any complaints at work about the heat this week, I’ll be screamin at them WHATS WHY I HATE SUMMER They constantly whinge at me cause I love the cool & rain

I’m with you BG I want my winter too

I just worked out this year that I love summer until Christmas – but after Christmas, I would like to skip straight to Easter weather! :)

It’s OK everyone, it’s been updated…

Tuesday Very hot. Mostly sunny. Min 21 Max 38
Wednesday Very hot. Sunny. Min 24 Max 39
Thursday Very hot. Mostly sunny. Min 26 Max 40
Friday Very hot. Sunny. Min 24 Max 39
Saturday Very hot. Sunny. Min 26 Max 41
Sunday Very hot. Sunny. Min 24 Max 39

Cue melodramatic sulking and temper tantrums :D

Although actually, my soil is holding up much better than I thought it would. It is quite dry (because I haven’t had the health/energy to do much to it for ages), but the nice soil around the trees actually isn’t hydrophobic yet, which was a pleasant surprise.

I will be hand watering with worm juice every evening this week, I think.

(1) Severe weather Warning issued over SE Queensland
(2) general falls of +100mm expected over the state
(3) Flooding is possible and even likely by Wednesday over parts of the SE Coast as an upper LOW develops further and an upper trough sharpens.
(4) The monsoon trough develops further an pushes southward between now and Wednesday.

How’s that Pom, you getting wet yet?

Pom, how’s this for Wed?

painmaster said:

(1) Severe weather Warning issued over SE Queensland
(2) general falls of +100mm expected over the state
(3) Flooding is possible and even likely by Wednesday over parts of the SE Coast as an upper LOW develops further and an upper trough sharpens.
(4) The monsoon trough develops further an pushes southward between now and Wednesday.

How’s that Pom, you getting wet yet?

Thanks PM. Yes it’s raining here now. Really raining. 100% rain as forecast.

painmaster said:

Pom, how’s this for Wed?

That’s very green isn’t it? Maybe I’ll float to the Centre tomorrow.

Very, very wet here. Lots more to come apparently. I heard WA is in for a scorcher of a week. Probably have to re write the record books. I feel for all of you.

mid thirties for the rest of this week :(
my airconditioner and ebook are getting a good workout…

bluegreen said:

mid thirties for the rest of this week :(
my airconditioner and ebook are getting a good workout…

Same here BG. Not forgetting the computer of course. I’m playing 4 games of online scrabble, the brain cells are getting a workout.

bluegreen said:

mid thirties for the rest of this week :(
my airconditioner and ebook are getting a good workout…

so you’ve got an ebook too BG. I’m still waiting to learn how to download stuff etc. #1 daughter has the instructions to mine (put in a safe place but she can’t remember where that is. Is she her Mothers daughter or what?) Meanwhile I’m still reading paper pages.

pomolo said:

Very, very wet here. Lots more to come apparently. I heard WA is in for a scorcher of a week. Probably have to re write the record books. I feel for all of you.

Thanks Pom. It’s not too lovely over here that’s for sure. I called off my Mon arvo job to get my car air con regassed just to make the rest of this week possible… Today’s jobs were tolerable because I could rejuvenate somewhat between jobs thanks to the air con, and thankfully the third job of the day was fixing blocked retic – my favourite summer job, LOL!

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

Put floaties on.
Bluddy ‘ell that’s a lot of water.

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

I’ve arranged for a day orff on Friday too.

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

There seems to be a heap of people doing the 4day weekend thing.

painmaster said:

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

I’ve arranged for a day orff on Friday too.

There’s another one.

Rain seems to have stopped …….for now. We are supposed to be getting some more by Friday. We have totted up almost 8 inches this month. Very happy with that.

pomolo said:

hortfurball said:

pomolo said:

Water, water everywhere. Gee it’s pretty wet now. We have done well because we’ve only had about 100mls all up. Lots of other places are floating away after a lot more rain than we have had. They are still saying that today will be the worst with 150 to 200mls going to happen.

We’ll be inside all day again. Maybe a jigsaw………………

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

There seems to be a heap of people doing the 4day weekend thing.

says she who enjoys a 7 day weekend each week.

pomolo said:

Rain seems to have stopped …….for now. We are supposed to be getting some more by Friday. We have totted up almost 8 inches this month. Very happy with that.

6 inches this month for me, but 10 inches 20kms down the road at the office.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

hortfurball said:

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

I’ve arranged for a day orff on Friday too.

There’s another one.

I’m having a day off too – oh yeah, I don’t work! lol! evben on the news last night they referred to the extra long weekend.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

I’ve arranged for a day orff on Friday too.

There’s another one.

I’m having a day off too – oh yeah, I don’t work! lol! evben on the news last night they referred to the extra long weekend.

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

There’s another one.

I’m having a day off too – oh yeah, I don’t work! lol! evben on the news last night they referred to the extra long weekend.

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

I’m having a day off too – oh yeah, I don’t work! lol! evben on the news last night they referred to the extra long weekend.

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

ditto!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

hortfurball said:

We’re inside trying to avoid the dreadful heat. 41.4 and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. With the Australia Day public holiday, D asked me to take Friday off so that we could have a four day weekend (D lives and works about 80km away so we only see each other on weekends), so I don’t have to work any more in this heat until next week!

There seems to be a heap of people doing the 4day weekend thing.

says she who enjoys a 7 day weekend each week.

I certainly do but a 4day w/e is more fun.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

ditto!

Cricket has got to be better than the tennis D is watching. There is a player (female) on at the moment with a serious case of enforced groaning as she hits the ball. I’d be so tempted to put a sock in it. lol.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

ditto!

Cricket has got to be better than the tennis D is watching. There is a player (female) on at the moment with a serious case of enforced groaning as she hits the ball. I’d be so tempted to put a sock in it. lol.

sounds like Sharapova

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

I hear you HP!

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

ditto!

Cricket has got to be better than the tennis D is watching. There is a player (female) on at the moment with a serious case of enforced groaning as she hits the ball. I’d be so tempted to put a sock in it. lol.

sounds like Sharapova

No, they’re all doing it these days, it should be a fineable offense. It hides the sound of the ball being hit and disadvantages their opponent, so it is tactical cheating.

Guess what! It’s raining again. Reduced to storms now but they still hold lots of water to drop on us.

We have to go into town today. Blood tests are overdue. I’m not looking foreward to the trip though. There will be water over the roads and bridges out etc. There is minor flooding in town.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. LOL.

pomolo said:

Guess what! It’s raining again. Reduced to storms now but they still hold lots of water to drop on us.

We have to go into town today. Blood tests are overdue. I’m not looking foreward to the trip though. There will be water over the roads and bridges out etc. There is minor flooding in town.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. LOL.

Wonder if the Dam would have been full by now if they had dammed the Mary?

Temperature 23.4°C looking at 26°C we have lots of rain, nice and windy = beautiful stuff, no need to water the garden :)
Dew Point 21.1°C
Feels Like 23.4°C
Relative Humidity 87%
Wind ENE 46km/h
Wind Gusts 57km/h
Pressure 1012.3hPa rising
Fire Danger 4.0
Rain since 9am/last hr 0.6mm / 0.2mm

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Guess what! It’s raining again. Reduced to storms now but they still hold lots of water to drop on us.

We have to go into town today. Blood tests are overdue. I’m not looking foreward to the trip though. There will be water over the roads and bridges out etc. There is minor flooding in town.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. LOL.

Wonder if the Dam would have been full by now if they had dammed the Mary?

Thank heavens, we will never know. Over 9 inches for the month now.

pomolo said:

Over 9 inches for the month now.

that beats my 32mm!

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Over 9 inches for the month now.

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Over 9 inches for the month now.

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

only 155mm here.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

only 155mm here.

minus here.

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Yeah I don’t ‘work’ either. Now if I could just sit for a while undisturbed, I might be able to relax. lol.

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

Pfft. It’s called relaxing! Some of you have forgotten how :D

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

painmaster said:

Ummm that is what Cricket is for.

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

Pfft. It’s called relaxing! Some of you have forgotten how :D

You could be right. But, cricket? I would rather go count how may feathers there are on a silkie…

Happy Potter said:

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

Heck! I’d die of boredom!

Pfft. It’s called relaxing! Some of you have forgotten how :D

You could be right. But, cricket? I would rather go count how may feathers there are on a silkie…

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

bon008 said:

Pfft. It’s called relaxing! Some of you have forgotten how :D

You could be right. But, cricket? I would rather go count how may feathers there are on a silkie…

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

trichome said:

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

You could be right. But, cricket? I would rather go count how may feathers there are on a silkie…

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

Can’t stand watching tennis, personally. Horses for courses!

bon008 said:

trichome said:

bon008 said:

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

Can’t stand watching tennis, personally. Horses for courses!

love watching tennis, better still love playing tennis, golf too :)

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

Over 9 inches for the month now.

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

Skite!

painmaster said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

only 155mm here.

Na na na na na!!!

trichome said:

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

You could be right. But, cricket? I would rather go count how may feathers there are on a silkie…

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

only 155mm here.

Na na na na na!!!

Ummm, I live in the DRY tropics…..

painmaster said:

trichome said:

bon008 said:

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

Cricket is infinitely more entertaining than tennis.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

Cricket is infinitely more entertaining than tennis.

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

pomolo said:

trichome said:

bluegreen said:

that beats my 32mm!

about 350mm for the month so far here :)

Skite!

yep :)
Temperature 23.0°C and lookin’ at 25°C today, beautiful :)
Dew Point 19.6°C
Feels Like 23.0°C
Relative Humidity 81%
Wind NE 18km/h
Wind Gusts 28km/h
Pressure 1013.2hPa rising
Fire Danger 2.5
Rain since 9am/last hr 5.0mm / 0.0mm

painmaster said:

trichome said:

bon008 said:

I must admit, it took me a long time to get into it. I also enjoyed it a lot more when I was a student, and I didn’t have a massive list of things I should have been doing instead!

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

only 155mm here.

Na na na na na!!!

Ummm, I live in the DRY tropics…..

Another 19mls in the guage this morning. 10 inches for the month of January is a foregone conclusion now.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Na na na na na!!!

Ummm, I live in the DRY tropics…..

Another 19mls in the guage this morning. 10 inches for the month of January is a foregone conclusion now.

I’m lucky to exceed ten inches per year.. on average.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

Cricket is infinitely more entertaining than tennis.

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

trichome said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

you forgot to include monotonous. ;)

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

pomolo said:

Na na na na na!!!

Ummm, I live in the DRY tropics…..

Another 19mls in the guage this morning. 10 inches for the month of January is a foregone conclusion now.

I got 8mm.

justin said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Cricket is infinitely more entertaining than tennis.

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

painmaster said:

justin said:

painmaster said:

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

painmaster said:

justin said:

painmaster said:

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

the mute button is a good idea – now if only Roy and HG would do the commentary on the radio all would be perfect.

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

they would say it is natural ?? it probably is to a certain extent – altho they seem to do it always – whereas occasionally would be more believable IMHO.

painmaster said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

you forgot to include monotonous. ;)

what!!! never :) my game improves every time i see tennis on the tube :)

talk about monotonous – it can take 5 days for one cricket match ;)

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

both screamers are on tonight :)

painmaster said:

justin said:

painmaster said:

I concur. Only 4 more wickets to go for a 4-0 some would say one-sided affair? I say Bring on the Poms!

I’m in the awkward position of never having seen a wicket taken this summer. Everytime I fall asleep or leave the room another wicket falls and I hear all this enthused shouting from afar.
Same thing happens with the Crows – they always kick goals when I’m out the room. This is very bad for my self esteem – I feel like they’ve had a bad season because I watched them too much.
But don’t worry about the Adelaide test – we’ll win because I’ll be watching the beautiful baseline screamers on channel seven.

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

aha the truth at last ;)

“ I know what tennis is and … it is good”

pomolo said:

Guess what! It’s raining again. Reduced to storms now but they still hold lots of water to drop on us.

We have to go into town today. Blood tests are overdue. I’m not looking foreward to the trip though. There will be water over the roads and bridges out etc. There is minor flooding in town.

Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it. LOL.

There was me bemoaning the heat, having no idea half of the north-east coast was underwater again. I feel guilty for complaining now. :(

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

Cricket is infinitely more entertaining than tennis.

Individual tastes. Cricket to me is dullsville yawn

justin said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

they would say it is natural ?? it probably is to a certain extent – altho they seem to do it always – whereas occasionally would be more believable IMHO.

I understand they don’t do it when they are practising. Who are they trying to kid?

trichome said:

painmaster said:

trichome said:

Tennis is much more entertaining :)

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

Three words I would NEVER have applied to cricket.
Long, drawn out periods of nothing with occasional bouts of action is more like it. :D

trichome said:

pomolo said:

painmaster said:

hope you have mute button on. Look, I know what tennis is and it is a sport so ergo it is good, but the grunting gives me the screaming abdabs. Its a real turn off.

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

both screamers are on tonight :)

A good reason to stay away from 7.

hortfurball said:

trichome said:

painmaster said:

(uggghhhh) How (ugggghhhh) does (ugggghhhh) that (ugggghhhh) work (ugggghhhh)?

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

Three words I would NEVER have applied to cricket.
Long, drawn out periods of nothing with occasional bouts of action is more like it. :D

yeah i’m describing tennis :)

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

And I say ditto to that. I wouldn’t even be tempted to watch anyone that found that kind of carryon necessary to be able to play a good game. I don’t care how brilliant they are supposed to be.

both screamers are on tonight :)

A good reason to stay away from 7.

i am recording it, perhaps i can come visit D you and i can watch it :)

trichome said:

hortfurball said:

trichome said:

yep :)
it’s a warrior sport
dynamic, athletic and captivating.

Three words I would NEVER have applied to cricket.
Long, drawn out periods of nothing with occasional bouts of action is more like it. :D

yeah i’m describing tennis :)

Yeah, sorry ‘bout that, realised it later on when I read another comment. RB had been extolling the virtues of cricket a few posts beforehand and I got confused, LOL!

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

both screamers are on tonight :)

A good reason to stay away from 7.

i am recording it, perhaps i can come visit D you and i can watch it :)

Why do you think I’m in the computer room? So I don’t have to watch it TC.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

A good reason to stay away from 7.

i am recording it, perhaps i can come visit D you and i can watch it :)

Why do you think I’m in the computer room? So I don’t have to watch it TC.

but i’m recording especially for you :)

Just to get this thread back on track. It’s raining here. LOL.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

i am recording it, perhaps i can come visit D you and i can watch it :)

Why do you think I’m in the computer room? So I don’t have to watch it TC.

but i’m recording especially for you :)

Please don’t bother. I’ll be watching Taggart rpt. anyway.