it’s going to be a hot one :)

28.8º at 9am. 52% humidity. O’ernight low of 23ºC

now (11am) 27.7oC and 56% humidity. Very muggy out there and looking like the maximum of 28 will be exceeded.

at present, 25deg, 71% humid. wind gusts at 46km/ph, a nice breeze

trichome said:

it’s going to be a hot one :)

plenty of thunder but only 5mm of rain. ….it’s still thundering now….

justin said:

trichome said:

it’s going to be a hot one :)

plenty of thunder but only 5mm of rain. ….it’s still thundering now….

Here too, light rain for an hour now.

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

trichome said:

it’s going to be a hot one :)

plenty of thunder but only 5mm of rain. ….it’s still thundering now….

Here too, light rain for an hour now.

supposed to get 10-15mm today, but it hasn’t happened yet (apart from 1mm this morning) and the radar is looking pretty bare of blue stuff. My garden is as dry as.

Tuesday is going to be a corker apparently. 39c predicted for Brisbnae and we are mostly 3 or 4 degrees above Bris. We’ll be in Brisbane on Monday but it should be a bit milder than 39c. For pete’s sake!!!

Right now I appreciate winter.

who’s pete ? :)

trichome said:

who’s pete ? :)

someone I can blame.

Very hot and still very dry. I don’t know how some plants just keep on going no matter how dry it gets. Others can’t handle it at all.

pomolo said:

Very hot and still very dry. I don’t know how some plants just keep on going no matter how dry it gets. Others can’t handle it at all.

wind is coming from the south today, so much cooler.

Rain last night. Very fresh breezes from the north east. Temp at 16:00 yesterday was 33.5, by 18:00 it was 35.5…however cools rapidly after 20:00 especially if the 9 o’clock breeze turns up.

36c here at 9:30am. Yesterday was a corker. It reached 42 at our place. I’ve never experienced temps that high before in my life. Teev said it was the highest reading since records started in 1901. We are only able to spend time outside after about 3 in the arvo or before the sun gets too high. You’d cook if you tried to stand out in that heat.

The dog finds the coolest places so I follow her around if the air con is off. It’s a change because it’s usually her that follows me around. lol.

pomolo said:

36c here at 9:30am. Yesterday was a corker. It reached 42 at our place. I’ve never experienced temps that high before in my life. Teev said it was the highest reading since records started in 1901. We are only able to spend time outside after about 3 in the arvo or before the sun gets too high. You’d cook if you tried to stand out in that heat.

The dog finds the coolest places so I follow her around if the air con is off. It’s a change because it’s usually her that follows me around. lol.

and there are still people who don’t believe that global warming exists.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

36c here at 9:30am. Yesterday was a corker. It reached 42 at our place. I’ve never experienced temps that high before in my life. Teev said it was the highest reading since records started in 1901. We are only able to spend time outside after about 3 in the arvo or before the sun gets too high. You’d cook if you tried to stand out in that heat.

The dog finds the coolest places so I follow her around if the air con is off. It’s a change because it’s usually her that follows me around. lol.

and there are still people who don’t believe that global warming exists.

I’m not a devotee yet. That 42c was for where we live. Brisbanes max was only the highest for 9 years. Our 4570 post code is hardly global.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

36c here at 9:30am. Yesterday was a corker. It reached 42 at our place. I’ve never experienced temps that high before in my life. Teev said it was the highest reading since records started in 1901. We are only able to spend time outside after about 3 in the arvo or before the sun gets too high. You’d cook if you tried to stand out in that heat.

The dog finds the coolest places so I follow her around if the air con is off. It’s a change because it’s usually her that follows me around. lol.

and there are still people who don’t believe that global warming exists.

I’m not a devotee yet. That 42c was for where we live. Brisbanes max was only the highest for 9 years. Our 4570 post code is hardly global.

Have you lived in the same place for 60 or more years?

I suppose this is the question needing to be asked. Most people don’t stay in the one place long enough to notice the weather patterns.

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

lucky bugger.

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Dinetta said:

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

Can I have a drop too please?

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

Can I have a drop too please?

I would love some too, but the farmers want to get their harvest in first.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

Happy to share…

painmaster said:

Can I have a drop too please?

Yep, when the rains turn up, I will…

bluegreen said:

I would love some too, but the farmers want to get their harvest in first.

Still? “Our” winter crops are well and truly off, the irrigated summer plantings are in (not so much cotton this year because of prices) and summer dryland plantings are waiting on these rains…

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

..to Adepulco and Melfrisco..

bluegreen said:

painmaster said:

Happy Potter said:

Then down here :)

Can I have a drop too please?

I would love some too, but the farmers want to get their harvest in first.

my neighbour across the road is the only farm in the whole district not to have harvested – i think.
he might have been lete planting?

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

..to Adepulco and Melfrisco..

Dinetta’s accent is showing… the further north one goes the more MackHole sounds like MuckHole.

But I like Adepulco and Melfrisco.

painmaster said:

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

Then down here :)

..to Adepulco and Melfrisco..

Dinetta’s accent is showing… the further north one goes the more MackHole sounds like MuckHole.
But I like Adepulco and Melfrisco.

mackay ah?
we pronounce that McKigh
Dinetta’s OK – when she’s experiencing rain – currently we’re all a bit twitchy…

justin said:

my neighbour across the road is the only farm in the whole district not to have harvested – i think.
he might have been lete planting?

That would be the one I thought was a “fuel load”? You said it was wheat, didn’t you?

painmaster said:

Dinetta’s accent is showing… the further north one goes the more MackHole sounds like MuckHole.

I quite like MuckHole for a visit, prefer it to RockVegas…shame it’s “gone ahead” tho’, with all the “development” and all…

Dinetta said:

justin said:

my neighbour across the road is the only farm in the whole district not to have harvested – i think.
he might have been lete planting?

That would be the one I thought was a “fuel load”? You said it was wheat, didn’t you?

that’s the one. a short stubby crop but fairly dense.
the landowner share farms with an actual doer/ farmer with the machinery.
the landowner keeps abreast of spot prices on the market and probably knows what he’s doing – i hope.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

trichome said:

rain, rain, rain, glorious rain, and plenty of it :)

When you’re finished, send it up to the Tropic of Capricorn, about 4 hours from RockVegas and 3 hours from MackHole…

Then down here :)

that rain has moved on hope you got some, we now have the potential of thunderstorms with large hail, want me to send that on too ? :)

justin said:

that’s the one. a short stubby crop but fairly dense.
the landowner share farms with an actual doer/ farmer with the machinery.
the landowner keeps abreast of spot prices on the market and probably knows what he’s doing – i hope.

Unreal…gives a whole new meaning to “commercial farming”… I hope he knows what he’s doing, would think the wheat would spoil in the sun up here if left out too long…

Some of these farmers know the weather predictions better than Livio. I reckon if you see the wheat coming off at short notice, batten the hatches as the saying goes…I often used to predict my weather by the farmers down the back…if they were harvesting through the night (up to a dew point I suppose) or , alternatively, planting just as madly, then rain was imminent…now I tell the rain possibility by the kookaburras…one kookaburra weather, 2 kooka weather, etc, and to prove my point: when we were receiving all that high rainfall this past winter, there were 4, 5 and 6 kookaburras…

trichome said:

that rain has moved on hope you got some, we now have the potential of thunderstorms with large hail, want me to send that on too ? :)

Yeps, will melt before it hits the ground…

The cool change just blew in, temperature just dropped from 36 (dot something) C to 23 in minutes and very windy.
Tomato plants have shot up with the extra heat and water and need re tying. I better do that right away.

Happy Potter said:

The cool change just blew in, temperature just dropped from 36 (dot something) C to 23 in minutes and very windy.
Tomato plants have shot up with the extra heat and water and need re tying. I better do that right away.

wonder how long it will take to get here? The mountain range tends to slow it down.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to report the cool change here! It arrived about 3 hours ago, but I just went straight outside to plant out seedlings and prick others out into pots. And, of course, one thing leads to another and I ended up weeding and starting on the watering too. No sign of rain here.

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

Dinetta’s accent is showing… the further north one goes the more MackHole sounds like MuckHole.

I quite like MuckHole for a visit, prefer it to RockVegas…shame it’s “gone ahead” tho’, with all the “development” and all…

Mining money has made a mess of both those towns….

I’ve tried to refrain but now I have to complain. Lack of rain is becoming serious. My magnolia is starting to die. The crotons leaves are curling up Neither of these get regular water because they always outlast the dry but not this time. The flowers on capense are now drooping instead of standing erect. It’s getting so I don’t want to look around the yard anymore.

pomolo said:

It’s getting so I don’t want to look around the yard anymore.

I know the feeling…and it’s such a bummer when the shrubs / trees start showing stress…

Been pleasant today, only just hit 32C I think…

Make that 35C: Buffy’s got 35C coming up on Thursday…get all the mulch down now and water like mad…for the tender stuff, set up a barely-leaking drip system (keep hose in shade as far as you can) onto any planted out seedlings you want to survive…

Still no sign of rain here. I have noticed where people have mowed recently the grass is brown. Totally devoid of green shoots. It all looks dreadful.

Lovely big, fluffy grey clouds pass over but don’t produce. Something’s got to give soon.

We’ll have to buy water for the house tank in a week or so. We’ve been lucky to have made it this far.

I hoped we might get some rain last night but it didn’t work out that way…came up from the south west…they’ve been getting odd cells of rain further out west along the Tropic of Capricorn line…what the weather people call “patch”…

pomolo said:

Still no sign of rain here. I have noticed where people have mowed recently the grass is brown. Totally devoid of green shoots. It all looks dreadful.

Lovely big, fluffy grey clouds pass over but don’t produce. Something’s got to give soon.

We’ll have to buy water for the house tank in a week or so. We’ve been lucky to have made it this far.

no rain here either, and not for the rest of this week with over 30+ temps, although Saturday might bring some rain. One can only hope.

pomolo said:

Still no sign of rain here. I have noticed where people have mowed recently the grass is brown. Totally devoid of green shoots. It all looks dreadful.

Lovely big, fluffy grey clouds pass over but don’t produce. Something’s got to give soon.

We’ll have to buy water for the house tank in a week or so. We’ve been lucky to have made it this far.

Just looked at your closest radar and K is south of it? If you live on the east of the little black square you have a chance of rain later today…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Still no sign of rain here. I have noticed where people have mowed recently the grass is brown. Totally devoid of green shoots. It all looks dreadful.

Lovely big, fluffy grey clouds pass over but don’t produce. Something’s got to give soon.

We’ll have to buy water for the house tank in a week or so. We’ve been lucky to have made it this far.

Just looked at your closest radar and K is south of it? If you live on the east of the little black square you have a chance of rain later today…

Still hoping.

We had 2 short sharp showers today. They aren’t going to be of any benefit really but it allows you to think that it might get rain again one day.

pomolo said:

We had 2 short sharp showers today. They aren’t going to be of any benefit really but it allows you to think that it might get rain again one day.

we had thunder and 10 minutes of rain – buckets fell on elizabeth only 20 mins. drive away.

…and Lucky said on her fb that she didn’t get any…

Just checked the BOM…driza here…no prospects either…

We need those monsoonal toughs to drop south a bit more…

Interesting that there’s lows out to sea that look as if they’re stopping the inland troughs from clearing east…

Dinetta said:

We need those monsoonal toughs to drop south a bit more…

Interesting that there’s lows out to sea that look as if they’re stopping the inland troughs from clearing east…

I don’t know… monsoonal toughs sound a bit drastic.

Dinetta said:

…and Lucky said on her fb that she didn’t get any…

I was just wondering if Lucky got any, lol!

Dinetta said:

…and Lucky said on her fb that she didn’t get any…

yet it poured down out at Pt Adelaide.

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

…and Lucky said on her fb that she didn’t get any…

yet it poured down out at Pt Adelaide.

Yes.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

We need those monsoonal toughs to drop south a bit more…

Interesting that there’s lows out to sea that look as if they’re stopping the inland troughs from clearing east…

I don’t know… monsoonal toughs sound a bit drastic.

Monsoonal troughs is how we get our Wet…

Cloudy and cool here, the Aerodrome says 22C but it feels cooler than that here. We have 85% cloud cover (in my estimation) but the BOM is not showing any cloud cover at all…

was going to try and get up early to do some outside stuff before the heat, but a hot night = late sleep = sleep in and I woke later than usual. It is now over 27C outside heading for 35C so those things will just have to wait another day, or two. It is heat control mode for me and the animals again today.

never really cooled off last night altho’ a gully breeze did allow me to sleep.
i did some more mulching early today, but by 10am it was too hot, so i dived in the pool.
we have cloud cover at the moment but the air is hot and humid.
when the rain first came yesterday ‘prevening’ (sheldon’s word) there was a strong smell of smoke – prolly because my local friendly farmer had started a fire on wednesday by running his harvester over some rocks.

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

justin said:

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

Dinetta said:

justin said:

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

just different climatic conditions I think.

Dinetta said:

justin said:

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

roughbarked said:

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

That’s true…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

That’s true…

But it gets hot rapidly in Nov/Dec

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

That’s true…

But it gets hot rapidly in Nov/Dec

Whereas the same can happen up here any time after September 1st…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

That’s true…

But it gets hot rapidly in Nov/Dec

Whereas the same can happen up here any time after September 1st…

Can remember driving back from White Cliffs on Oct long weekend.. ie first weekend in Oct.. Usually 1st to 5th Oct.. Listening to my local radio station.. 44˚ C

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

justin said:

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

there have been exceptions

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

there have been exceptions

Yeah.. Our agricultural show days are on the long weekend in Oct.. and regularly it is either 40+ and dust or mud and less than 20.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

The weather doesn’t warm up so quickly in southern climes.

there have been exceptions

Yeah.. Our agricultural show days are on the long weekend in Oct.. and regularly it is either 40+ and dust or mud and less than 20.

Labor Day 1st Oct

Dinetta said:

justin said:

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

Why do the southern farmers take their winter wheat off so late? In our hot sun the grain would deteriorate, shrivel up to nothing…Have they been waiting on the harvesters themselves? This happens a lot out here with some cotton crops…

december is normal for wheat harvest here. only one in four crops is wheat nowadays.
these guys are the last in the district to harvest – so they are trying for the fattest grain to get top prices.
they are probably winning and grinning at this stage – but they must be sweating and swearing as well in this heat.

justin said:

december is normal for wheat harvest here. only one in four crops is wheat nowadays.
these guys are the last in the district to harvest – so they are trying for the fattest grain to get top prices.
they are probably winning and grinning at this stage – but they must be sweating and swearing as well in this heat.

I get the picture…

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

Noted that the average age of farmers is 65.. and that most have sold out to larger operators.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

there has been concern expressed over the long hours farmers spend this time of year harvesting, and then hop in a truck overtired and hit the road at the end of the day.

bluegreen said:

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

there has been concern expressed over the long hours farmers spend this time of year harvesting, and then hop in a truck overtired and hit the road at the end of the day.

I recall a horror incident with my ex-landlord Town Mayor.. on grape vintage.. He turned right into a farm gate with a B-double to collect more grapes .. A twin cab Toyaota clipped the turning truck prime mover and rolled for a hundred metres or so, killing four.

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

30.5C here, you are ahead of me but the south-easterly is definitely cool…

Interesting about the wheat harvest in your area…our area has depended on dryland agriculture since the late 50’s (that I’m aware of) hence my interest in the topic…of course we are also “the beef area of Australia”… so they say…just ask PainMaster about his impressions of Bovinia… lol

justin said:

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

Wonderful…I do love to hear of a successful grain-growing season…touch wood…but the BOM 4-day satellite maps don’t predict rain for your area any time soon…

roughbarked said:

I recall a horror incident with my ex-landlord Town Mayor.. on grape vintage.. He turned right into a farm gate with a B-double to collect more grapes .. A twin cab Toyaota clipped the turning truck prime mover and rolled for a hundred metres or so, killing four.

Sometimes it’s not fatigue, just poor judgement…that was a tragedy…all locals I suppose?

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

I recall a horror incident with my ex-landlord Town Mayor.. on grape vintage.. He turned right into a farm gate with a B-double to collect more grapes .. A twin cab Toyaota clipped the turning truck prime mover and rolled for a hundred metres or so, killing four.

Sometimes it’s not fatigue, just poor judgement…that was a tragedy…all locals I suppose?

yes, Locals being those who live within approx 50,000 sq Km.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

Noted that the average age of farmers is 65.. and that most have sold out to larger operators.

the farmers might be 65 but the actors on ‘ the bold and beautiful’ are older. …..and …someone just died – whew….. that programme worries me – noone ever dies and they must be close to death because the programme moves so slow.

anyrate the farms in question are not flat – so the harvesters have disappeared over the hill ..or summin? …. at present the harvest is proceeding at the pace of the B&B.

bluegreen said:

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

the other part of the equation is trucking all this stuff to roseworthy silos and grain storage.
every 20 ton truck in the district will be employed until this job is finished
- and down at the silos – weighing and offloading – all in 40C heat.
then – if they finish on saturday – a lot of blokes will be down at the pub
- these two farmers are in charge of a lot of business at present.

there has been concern expressed over the long hours farmers spend this time of year harvesting, and then hop in a truck overtired and hit the road at the end of the day.

well that’s charming! having avoided death by fire, machinery breakdown and heat exhaustion the poor bastards are dying of carelessness at the end of the day. LOL.
all is quiet so they are probably having a break in the shade somewhere – they do this as a living so they know what they’re doing.
cloud cover but still hot.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

30.5C here, you are ahead of me but the south-easterly is definitely cool…

Interesting about the wheat harvest in your area…our area has depended on dryland agriculture since the late 50’s (that I’m aware of) hence my interest in the topic…of course we are also “the beef area of Australia”… so they say…just ask PainMaster about his impressions of Bovinia… lol

is Bovinia somewhere near Mangolia?
WA now produces more wheat than any other state! (pssst ; I think the rest of us have switched to rotating canola, peas, barley etc.)

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

you lucky bad speller you LOL.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Currently only 34.4°C

Wheat harvest here rarely goes into December, depends upon onset of autumn rains and timing of planting to avoid possible rust and other rain induced problems nearer harvest.

30.5C here, you are ahead of me but the south-easterly is definitely cool…

Interesting about the wheat harvest in your area…our area has depended on dryland agriculture since the late 50’s (that I’m aware of) hence my interest in the topic…of course we are also “the beef area of Australia”… so they say…just ask PainMaster about his impressions of Bovinia… lol

our “dry” is at a different time of year to you.

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

still mid 30s here with a hot north-east wind, no rain in sight.

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

you lucky bad speller you LOL.

I was trying to out do you, LOL

Light rain now on and off. I’m making a list of what to take to the vege swap on Sat. I need to pick and pack tomorrow in case Sat morn is too wet. Where we meet there’s shelter so we still go along.

It just tried to rain here. I think there might have been a couple of hundred drops. Temp is around 22 now.

We are going out for tea shortly to the local pub. Mr buffy, the other ambulance person in town and the student who is getting experience with them. Are we laying bets about me and the other ambulance person’s partner being the ones left with 5 meals between us when the three pagers go off?

:)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

still mid 30s here with a hot north-east wind, no rain in sight.

it has clouded over, the wind has turned, there have even been some spits of rain. It is still hot outside though.

justin said:

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

you lucky bad speller you LOL.

She’s got a cold front passing through, I’m not sure if it’s the one with rain or not…

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

I had to look twice, it was around that (17C) out in Charleville, either yesterday or the day before…raining too…

justin said:

never really cooled off last night altho’ a gully breeze did allow me to sleep.
i did some more mulching early today, but by 10am it was too hot, so i dived in the pool.
we have cloud cover at the moment but the air is hot and humid.
when the rain first came yesterday ‘prevening’ (sheldon’s word) there was a strong smell of smoke – prolly because my local friendly farmer had started a fire on wednesday by running his harvester over some rocks.

i can see two local farmers trying to harvest their wheat crops. talk about risky business. rain is forecast, but a fire in those 300 hectare crops would be utterly unstoppable. they are harvesting so much wheat that they fill all their silos and trucks every day and so stop harvesting to go to the grain stores. I doubt either crop is half done yet.

I hope the fires don’t happen. Sounds terrible.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Rain!
and a sudden temperature plung from mid 30s to 17c.

still mid 30s here with a hot north-east wind, no rain in sight.

Sounds like Qld.

we had rain – overnight and midday – ground is wet to about 70mm deep.
not much rain but good stuff.
both farmers have stopped harvesting –
- the one on the distant hill could be a special case – he’s practically a living legend of wheat growing around here – so for some reason (beyond my puny experience) he has left some of his crop unharvested.
the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

justin said:

we had rain – overnight and midday – ground is wet to about 70mm deep.
not much rain but good stuff.
both farmers have stopped harvesting –
- the one on the distant hill could be a special case – he’s practically a living legend of wheat growing around here – so for some reason (beyond my puny experience) he has left some of his crop unharvested.
the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

stopped because of the rain?

bluegreen said:

justin said:

we had rain – overnight and midday – ground is wet to about 70mm deep.
not much rain but good stuff.
both farmers have stopped harvesting –
- the one on the distant hill could be a special case – he’s practically a living legend of wheat growing around here – so for some reason (beyond my puny experience) he has left some of his crop unharvested.
the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

stopped because of the rain?

yes
the rest of the wheat and straw will be downgraded i guess
- i feel a bit ignorant of their real purposes tho’ – i might get some insight tomorrow when i buy a bale of straw off my local friendly farmer – he normally chats about our mutual neighbour-across-the-road.

justin said:

bluegreen said:

justin said:

we had rain – overnight and midday – ground is wet to about 70mm deep.
not much rain but good stuff.
both farmers have stopped harvesting –
- the one on the distant hill could be a special case – he’s practically a living legend of wheat growing around here – so for some reason (beyond my puny experience) he has left some of his crop unharvested.
the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

stopped because of the rain?

yes
the rest of the wheat and straw will be downgraded i guess
- i feel a bit ignorant of their real purposes tho’ – i might get some insight tomorrow when i buy a bale of straw off my local friendly farmer – he normally chats about our mutual neighbour-across-the-road.

they can’t harvest if the crop is wet as it will go mouldy or sprout in storage, so they will have to wait to harvest what is left after it dries out again.

justin said:

ground is wet to about 70mm deep.

sounds like bliss.

painmaster said:

justin said:

ground is wet to about 70mm deep.

sounds like bliss.

good word – bliss

many of the failing crops will now flourish i suspect.
beautiful summer rain ! – there’s nothing like it.

bluegreen said:

they can’t harvest if the crop is wet as it will go mouldy or sprout in storage, so they will have to wait to harvest what is left after it dries out again.

They can’t harvest if it’s blacksoil and boggy, either…

Interesting comment about baling behind the harvester, almost…

justin said:

we had rain – overnight and midday – ground is wet to about 70mm deep.
not much rain but good stuff.
both farmers have stopped harvesting –
- the one on the distant hill could be a special case – he’s practically a living legend of wheat growing around here – so for some reason (beyond my puny experience) he has left some of his crop unharvested.
the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

Baling the straw immediately is generally because he needs to.

painmaster said:

justin said:

ground is wet to about 70mm deep.

sounds like bliss.

Depends on what you mean by wet.

justin said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

ground is wet to about 70mm deep.

sounds like bliss.

good word – bliss

many of the failing crops will now flourish i suspect.
beautiful summer rain ! – there’s nothing like it.

Yes, it keeps the fungicide makers in a fortune.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

ground is wet to about 70mm deep.

sounds like bliss.

Depends on what you mean by wet.

I’d take moisture down to 70mm this afternoon if I could. Any precipitation really? The local grassfires have made things very smoky this morn.

4.2 mm of rain and now the sun is shining brightly. Pfft.
I’ll go find the sprinkler. Vege swap is going ahead and I have seedlings and greens to load into the car. I’m taking a bowl of kale chips for small, and big kids :)

roughbarked said:

the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

Baling the straw immediately is generally because he needs to.

What’s the need?

15mm of rain last night. I can still hear the garden sighing with relief :)

bluegreen said:

15mm of rain last night. I can still hear the garden sighing with relief :)

That’s a good soak!

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

Baling the straw immediately is generally because he needs to.

What’s the need?

several.

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

15mm of rain last night. I can still hear the garden sighing with relief :)

That’s a good soak!

BG wins – we got about 6-8mm.
Ours was the equivalent of about 2-3 hours of irrigation and – P1 fungi immediately emerged – P2 the good garden soil was dampened to a depth of about 70mm (or a trowel blade) but – P3 this depth of dampening only occured in the well worked garden areas – elsewhere the top 10mm were dampened – except for where the clay had cracked wide open where dampening took place below the surface to an unknown depth. (mumble mumble inquisitive minds and probing questions mumble mumble). LOL

before i go to pick up my big bale of barley straw
P1 – radishes and lettuce loved the rain
P2 – and at last my basil looks alive
P3 – don’t forget to mound up around your beans – the stalks weaken at ground level if you don’t – which is why some of these stopped producing and started turning yellow.

The fungi look cute…JUst love the long shot of your vegetable garden as it is…

Bummer when it goes down the clay cracks…what’s your soil type again?

Dinetta said:

The fungi look cute…JUst love the long shot of your vegetable garden as it is…

Bummer when it goes down the clay cracks…what’s your soil type again?

the soil strata are – topsoil – clay – limestone – sand
mostly the 1 hectare site is alkaline clay for 600+mm on top.
- but i have totally changed the top 200 – 500mm around the house half acre by importing sand and manures .

nice pics justin, some vege bed envy happening here.

did you mean to post them in the summer weather thread?

justin said:

the soil strata are – topsoil – clay – limestone – sand
mostly the 1 hectare site is alkaline clay for 600+mm on top.
- but i have totally changed the top 200 – 500mm around the house half acre by importing sand and manures .

Looking at the photos your efforts have been rewarded…the soil looks yummy and the plants appear to thrive…mostly…

bluegreen said:

nice pics justin, some vege bed envy happening here.

did you mean to post them in the summer weather thread?

thanks – the thread doesn’t matter – and i was answering various good questions about the definition of ‘wet’ and the voracity of my ‘depth of wetting’ statement.
what happened was ms j. said ‘how deep did the rain penetrate?’ and standing by my old spud bed I saw the trowel and dug that hole.

how deep did your 15mm of rain go?

justin said:

bluegreen said:

nice pics justin, some vege bed envy happening here.

did you mean to post them in the summer weather thread?

thanks – the thread doesn’t matter – and i was answering various good questions about the definition of ‘wet’ and the voracity of my ‘depth of wetting’ statement.
what happened was ms j. said ‘how deep did the rain penetrate?’ and standing by my old spud bed I saw the trowel and dug that hole.

how deep did your 15mm of rain go?

don’t know :)

Dinetta said:

justin said:

the soil strata are – topsoil – clay – limestone – sand
mostly the 1 hectare site is alkaline clay for 600+mm on top.
- but i have totally changed the top 200 – 500mm around the house half acre by importing sand and manures .

Looking at the photos your efforts have been rewarded…the soil looks yummy and the plants appear to thrive…mostly…

i have just bought a big bale and offloaded it.
the local friendly farmer said that 8mm of rain makes virtually no difference to the harvesting of the grain or the straw. so as soon as it dries out they start harvesting again.
a different contractor is baling the straw so baling doesn’t effect the speed of harvesting the grain.
simple but not as exciting as all the variations i had dreamt up.

justin said:

bluegreen said:

nice pics justin, some vege bed envy happening here.

did you mean to post them in the summer weather thread?

thanks – the thread doesn’t matter – and i was answering various good questions about the definition of ‘wet’ and the voracity of my ‘depth of wetting’ statement.
what happened was ms j. said ‘how deep did the rain penetrate?’ and standing by my old spud bed I saw the trowel and dug that hole.

how deep did your 15mm of rain go?

instead of voracity please substitute veracity – ta

and BG – very wise non commital statement on the depth of wetness – wink.
but i bet 20 cents you were out there digging to find out LOL.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

the bloke across the road finished about 65% of his crop. again, for reasons beyond me, he has been taking off the grain and then baling the straw straight away.

Baling the straw immediately is generally because he needs to.

What’s the need?

several.

apparently cleanliness is one – but there’s something about leaving less residuals for the next crop.

justin said:

justin said:

bluegreen said:

nice pics justin, some vege bed envy happening here.

did you mean to post them in the summer weather thread?

thanks – the thread doesn’t matter – and i was answering various good questions about the definition of ‘wet’ and the voracity of my ‘depth of wetting’ statement.
what happened was ms j. said ‘how deep did the rain penetrate?’ and standing by my old spud bed I saw the trowel and dug that hole.

how deep did your 15mm of rain go?

instead of voracity please substitute veracity – ta

and BG – very wise non commital statement on the depth of wetness – wink.
but i bet 20 cents you were out there digging to find out LOL.

you lose, 20 cents please. lol!

justin said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

What’s the need?

several.

apparently cleanliness is one – but there’s something about leaving less residuals for the next crop.

it’s another cash crop best harvested dry.

justin said:

a different contractor is baling the straw so baling doesn’t effect the speed of harvesting the grain.
simple but not as exciting as all the variations i had dreamt up.

That makes sense then…

justin said:

and BG – very wise non commital statement on the depth of wetness – wink.
but i bet 20 cents you were out there digging to find out LOL.

I’ve been known to stick my finger into the garden beds to work out the amount of rainfall:soil penetration ratio…on a very ruff basis of course…

bluegreen said:

justin said:

justin said:

thanks – the thread doesn’t matter – and i was answering various good questions about the definition of ‘wet’ and the voracity of my ‘depth of wetting’ statement.
what happened was ms j. said ‘how deep did the rain penetrate?’ and standing by my old spud bed I saw the trowel and dug that hole.

how deep did your 15mm of rain go?

instead of voracity please substitute veracity – ta

and BG – very wise non commital statement on the depth of wetness – wink.
but i bet 20 cents you were out there digging to find out LOL.

you lose, 20 cents please. lol!

alright – put it on my tab.
i bet the whole town is looking perky after that rain.

justin said:

bluegreen said:

justin said:

instead of voracity please substitute veracity – ta

and BG – very wise non commital statement on the depth of wetness – wink.
but i bet 20 cents you were out there digging to find out LOL.

you lose, 20 cents please. lol!

alright – put it on my tab.
i bet the whole town is looking perky after that rain.

Bamboo stick poked into the ground will tell you how deep the moisture is.

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

will it reach Australia?

trichome said:

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

will it reach Australia?

whoa – great visuals thanks trichome

18:00 and 36C but it’s cooling down now…

warm calm and just right for working.

Hot north north westerly (NNW) blowing right now…

Whoops that’s a NNE but it’s still hot…more rain forecast on the 4 day maps…

36C in the shade right now…

Such a lovely soak of rain last night…shame it came about midnight so I couldn’t sit on the back deck (verandah) and watch the lightning show whilst sipping chardonnay…

We’ve got a severe thunderstorm warning for later this afternoon…

Dinetta said:

We’ve got a severe thunderstorm warning for later this afternoon…

sunny here and pretty warm outside at 28C, but not too bad inside. No rain expected.

Dinetta said:

Hot north north westerly (NNW) blowing right now…

Whoops that’s a NNE but it’s still hot…more rain forecast on the 4 day maps…

36C in the shade right now…

Such a lovely soak of rain last night…shame it came about midnight so I couldn’t sit on the back deck (verandah) and watch the lightning show whilst sipping chardonnay…

hooray! – rain at last! – but not chardonnay – tut tut – reisling is in ?
…or cider in ice – is it still warm up there?

justin said:

hooray! – rain at last! – but not chardonnay – tut tut – reisling is in ?
…or cider in ice – is it still warm up there?

Reisling is in? Oh didn’t you know, we’re ahead of that…we’re just waiting for chardonnay to get back “in” to catch up with us…lol!

Oooh, cider in ice sounds tempting…it’s 33C out at the aerodrome but I think it’s significantly cooler here…the wind is now SSE and that’s always cooling…the humidity is building up, tho’…

gonna be a hot one again today (36C) so will be in heat management mode for me and mine.

Dinetta said:

justin said:

hooray! – rain at last! – but not chardonnay – tut tut – reisling is in ?
…or cider in ice – is it still warm up there?

Reisling is in? Oh didn’t you know, we’re ahead of that…we’re just waiting for chardonnay to get back “in” to catch up with us…lol!

Oooh, cider in ice sounds tempting…it’s 33C out at the aerodrome but I think it’s significantly cooler here…the wind is now SSE and that’s always cooling…the humidity is building up, tho’…

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

justin said:

Dinetta said:

justin said:

hooray! – rain at last! – but not chardonnay – tut tut – reisling is in ?
…or cider in ice – is it still warm up there?

Reisling is in? Oh didn’t you know, we’re ahead of that…we’re just waiting for chardonnay to get back “in” to catch up with us…lol!

Oooh, cider in ice sounds tempting…it’s 33C out at the aerodrome but I think it’s significantly cooler here…the wind is now SSE and that’s always cooling…the humidity is building up, tho’…

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

Chardy is sweeter, isn’t it? (not that I know much about wines..)

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

Dinetta said:

Reisling is in? Oh didn’t you know, we’re ahead of that…we’re just waiting for chardonnay to get back “in” to catch up with us…lol!

Oooh, cider in ice sounds tempting…it’s 33C out at the aerodrome but I think it’s significantly cooler here…the wind is now SSE and that’s always cooling…the humidity is building up, tho’…

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

Chardy is sweeter, isn’t it? (not that I know much about wines..)

they are both as dry as rockinghorse shit.

37ºC here .. I’m drinking Coopers.. watching porn in the medicine grass.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

justin said:

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

Chardy is sweeter, isn’t it? (not that I know much about wines..)

they are both as dry as rockinghorse shit.

ROTFPIMP!!!!

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Chardy is sweeter, isn’t it? (not that I know much about wines..)

they are both as dry as rockinghorse shit.

ROTFPIMP!!!!

^ sounds warm and wet.

justin said:

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

It’s verdhello, I checked the bottle last night…I’ve got tonsilitis, is that an excuse?

Dinetta said:

justin said:

:) that’s hot –
put your wine glasses in the fridge, then close your eyes and see if you can tell reisling from chardonnay.

It’s verdhello, I checked the bottle last night…I’ve got tonsilitis, is that an excuse?

for drinking verdhello? not sure if its an excuse …nor if i should confess my ignorance of verdhello….

weird sunset – what were those aztecs saying about the end……….?

justin said:

weird sunset – what were those aztecs saying about the end……….?

Looks like a normal sunset to me.

justin said:

weird sunset – what were those aztecs saying about the end……….?

the Mayans, and it is tomorrow, so make the most of today while you can ;)

roughbarked said:

they are both as dry as rockinghorse shit.

…I don’t particularly like sweet wines any more, altho’ I have a soft spot for a Browns Bro’s one…Moscato?

justin said:

weird sunset – what were those aztecs saying about the end……….?

It’s getting so…I knew straight away that was the farm across the road from you…

Longest day of the year for us today…cloud cover too thick to appreciate it (not that I’m complaining, mind)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

they are both as dry as rockinghorse shit.

…I don’t particularly like sweet wines any more, altho’ I have a soft spot for a Browns Bro’s one…Moscato?

Moscato is sweeter like the fruity Lexia.

There was a vicious storm in Emerald early this week and some complained that it wasn’t advised by the BoM…what the??? Can’t they look out and see the storm clouds brewing?\

The BoM said because of the smoke haze, their predictions were all out of kilter…

To my mind, people who rely only on the BoM are as stupid as those who rely only on their in-car GoogleMaps to tell them where they are (can’t look out the window for the road directions…)

I get quite irritable with people who say “But the Bureau promised…”. They never promise anything. It’s a forecast! People, it’s an educated guess. There are no promises and no excuse for not looking at th sky for yourself.

Rant over :)

buffy said:

I get quite irritable with people who say “But the Bureau promised…”. They never promise anything. It’s a forecast! People, it’s an educated guess. There are no promises and no excuse for not looking at th sky for yourself.

Rant over :)

Yeah!! Exactly!!

Dinetta said:

There was a vicious storm in Emerald early this week and some complained that it wasn’t advised by the BoM…what the??? Can’t they look out and see the storm clouds brewing?\

The BoM said because of the smoke haze, their predictions were all out of kilter…

To my mind, people who rely only on the BoM are as stupid as those who rely only on their in-car GoogleMaps to tell them where they are (can’t look out the window for the road directions…)

I agree. People seem to quickly forget basic skills when it all gets handed to them on a platter.

bluegreen said:

justin said:

weird sunset – what were those aztecs saying about the end……….?

the Mayans, and it is tomorrow, so make the most of today while you can ;)

i’m not falling for that olde – “..’sorry, the end of the world was yesterday’, trick…”

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

so can I whine in your place?

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

we have had beautiful rains over the past few days a great heavy downpour last night, the landscape at last is getting a good drink :)

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

so can I whine in your place?

Certainly if you want. We could compare.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

we have had beautiful rains over the past few days a great heavy downpour last night, the landscape at last is getting a good drink :)

You certainly know how to depress me Trichome.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

so can I whine in your place?

Certainly if you want. We could compare.

40 up to Christmas.. not much over 30 the few days afterwards.. rain? no chance until autumn.. unless the lucky dice fall my way.

pomolo said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

I want to have a big whinge on how dry things are but I won’t.

we have had beautiful rains over the past few days a great heavy downpour last night, the landscape at last is getting a good drink :)

You certainly know how to depress me Trichome.

:) I’m sure the rain will come your way soon

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

so can I whine in your place?

Certainly if you want. We could compare.

40 up to Christmas.. not much over 30 the few days afterwards.. rain? no chance until autumn.. unless the lucky dice fall my way.

It pains me RB, to say that we had a little pitter patter this afternoon. 20 drops that evaporated before they hit the ground but encouraging.

trichome said:

pomolo said:

trichome said:

we have had beautiful rains over the past few days a great heavy downpour last night, the landscape at last is getting a good drink :)

You certainly know how to depress me Trichome.

It did but the evidence has long disappeared.

:) I’m sure the rain will come your way soon

I want to wish everybody a Happy Christmas in this thread because I would love for you all to get good rains as a present this year. We will be leaving around lunch time, for a few days. (again) Please all be well and happy till I return.

pomolo said:

I want to wish everybody a Happy Christmas in this thread because I would love for you all to get good rains as a present this year. We will be leaving around lunch time, for a few days. (again) Please all be well and happy till I return.

have a nice trip. I wish you a wet Christmas too :)

pomolo said:

I want to wish everybody a Happy Christmas in this thread because I would love for you all to get good rains as a present this year. We will be leaving around lunch time, for a few days. (again) Please all be well and happy till I return.

Same to you and families, rain would be great :) Have a safe trip.

Good morning. Already over 30 degrees here and the wind is a Northerly. Watering was done early, and I’ve prepared the salads for lunch. I need to go outside and put the fire buckets along the verandah and shake the spiders out of the mops. We checked the roof sprinklers earlier. We live in a town, with a botanic garden between us and the grass plains, but a good wind could easily send us embers. We have got a total fire ban today.

pomolo said:

I want to wish everybody a Happy Christmas in this thread because I would love for you all to get good rains as a present this year. We will be leaving around lunch time, for a few days. (again) Please all be well and happy till I return.

Thanks Pomolo, and the same to you. Safe travels and watch out for idiots on the road…

buffy said:

Good morning. Already over 30 degrees here and the wind is a Northerly. Watering was done early, and I’ve prepared the salads for lunch. I need to go outside and put the fire buckets along the verandah and shake the spiders out of the mops. We checked the roof sprinklers earlier. We live in a town, with a botanic garden between us and the grass plains, but a good wind could easily send us embers. We have got a total fire ban today.

Hope everybody “got the message” (about the total fire ban)…

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

Good morning. Already over 30 degrees here and the wind is a Northerly. Watering was done early, and I’ve prepared the salads for lunch. I need to go outside and put the fire buckets along the verandah and shake the spiders out of the mops. We checked the roof sprinklers earlier. We live in a town, with a botanic garden between us and the grass plains, but a good wind could easily send us embers. We have got a total fire ban today.

Hope everybody “got the message” (about the total fire ban)…

Not here. I saw two or three smoke signals yesterday from people burning rubbish.

nasty outside, over 35C with a hot NNE wind. Just been icing up the animals’ water and I am glad to be back inside with the aircon going.

Yeah, we’ve gone 36 degrees, humidity now down around 11%, gusty stuff happening to 50km/hr.

buffy said:

Yeah, we’ve gone 36 degrees, humidity now down around 11%, gusty stuff happening to 50km/hr.

the chooks have been dowsed and there’s a new ice bottle in their water.
they stand around with their wings out and mouth open – panting.

Looks like it’s hammering rain at Longreach…they’d need it too…just thickening cloud cover here…but at least it’s cool…22C…no make that chilly…

We got into the high thirties today, but it’s on the way back down now. The wind has swung around and we are down to 27 or so.

I’m hoping for some showers of rain. That would be good.

just over 28C outside now. I can smell rain in the air but the radar says it is all north of the border :(

buffy said:

We got into the high thirties today, but it’s on the way back down now. The wind has swung around and we are down to 27 or so.

I’m hoping for some showers of rain. That would be good.

There’s supposed to be a cold front moving through near you tomorrow but I’m not sure you’ll get the benefits…

Now down to 26, but we have opened up the house rather than sleep with the aircon going. I’m off to bed. Might read for a while.

well driving to the very bottom of the peninsula to meet with family yesterday, there was a scorching northerly blowing and the outside air was 40ºC. I stepped outside to purchase some lemonade from a corner store, they call them delis down here and it was like walking into a furnace. We don’t do 40ºC in the tropics, and at least we can sweat in the humidity. But that dry northerly just robbed my body of any moisture, and my hair and lips starting to fall apart. Fortunately when we arrived at our destination the change had passed through and some good clods were building up. I sat down at the beach, white sand and seaweed and 6 Pelicans swam up to me. I noticed a few snapper carcasses that the locals fishers had discarded and I threw the heads and bones to the birds. The Pelicans swam around me and enjoyed their late afternoon snack. My lemonade went down went, and as the clods kept building, the humidity increased. It was becoming bearable again. You can keep your summer down Mexico way…

By the way, the sun setting at just before 9pm was heavenly. Good food, good company, good lemonade made for a wonderful evening.

Yeah Vic weather!
Get baked one day, blown apart the next, lol.

Freezing here…hang on whilst I check the scales…yep, 18.5C…time to find a light jumper…advise the lads to bring warm clothing and make sure they’ve got a blanket in their swags…

Just thought I’d say, I HATE HOT NIGHTS!!!!!!

There, I’ve said it.

bluegreen said:

Just thought I’d say, I HATE HOT NIGHTS!!!!!!

There, I’ve said it.

I’m with you BlueGreen: if you can’t get a good night’s sleep it’s very difficult to cope with the heat in the daytime…what was your minimum last night as a matter of interest?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Just thought I’d say, I HATE HOT NIGHTS!!!!!!

There, I’ve said it.

I’m with you BlueGreen: if you can’t get a good night’s sleep it’s very difficult to cope with the heat in the daytime…what was your minimum last night as a matter of interest?

officially 20, but I reckon it was hotter than that. I had the aircon running all night and the fan in my bedroom to draw it in, but it doesn’t equate to naturally cold, single figure temps!

Dinetta said:

Looks like it’s hammering rain at Longreach…they’d need it too…just thickening cloud cover here…but at least it’s cool…22C…no make that chilly…

4.6mm at the airport and 16mm in town. Just a sprinkle really for Longreach.

bluegreen said:

Just thought I’d say, I HATE HOT NIGHTS!!!!!!

There, I’ve said it.

ME TOO!
It was 27C overnight, now dropped to 24C. Things are arse about. But I’m a light sleeper and it was more the humming air con that kept me awake.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Just thought I’d say, I HATE HOT NIGHTS!!!!!!

There, I’ve said it.

ME TOO!
It was 27C overnight, now dropped to 24C. Things are arse about. But I’m a light sleeper and it was more the humming air con that kept me awake.

Hehe, the man said he could tell I was tired getting dressed early.. went to vets appt with my t-shirt inside out..

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

Looks like it’s hammering rain at Longreach…they’d need it too…just thickening cloud cover here…but at least it’s cool…22C…no make that chilly…

4.6mm at the airport and 16mm in town. Just a sprinkle really for Longreach.

Yes but we’ve got 20 mls here and the airport has got none…Should I have been more generous and said “areas around Longreach are getting hammered with rain?”

Happy Potter said:

Hehe, the man said he could tell I was tired getting dressed early.. went to vets appt with my t-shirt inside out..

You had your mind on your pet, didn’t you…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Hehe, the man said he could tell I was tired getting dressed early.. went to vets appt with my t-shirt inside out..

You had your mind on your pet, didn’t you…

Too right.

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

Looks like it’s hammering rain at Longreach…they’d need it too…just thickening cloud cover here…but at least it’s cool…22C…no make that chilly…

4.6mm at the airport and 16mm in town. Just a sprinkle really for Longreach.

Just remembered where the airport is in relation to Longreach…almost the main street…still looks like rain in areas of the Longreach district

painmaster said:

well driving to the very bottom of the peninsula to meet with family yesterday, there was a scorching northerly blowing and the outside air was 40ºC. I stepped outside to purchase some lemonade from a corner store, they call them delis down here and it was like walking into a furnace. We don’t do 40ºC in the tropics, and at least we can sweat in the humidity. But that dry northerly just robbed my body of any moisture, and my hair and lips starting to fall apart. Fortunately when we arrived at our destination the change had passed through and some good clods were building up. I sat down at the beach, white sand and seaweed and 6 Pelicans swam up to me. I noticed a few snapper carcasses that the locals fishers had discarded and I threw the heads and bones to the birds. The Pelicans swam around me and enjoyed their late afternoon snack. My lemonade went down went, and as the clods kept building, the humidity increased. It was becoming bearable again. You can keep your summer down Mexico way…

By the way, the sun setting at just before 9pm was heavenly. Good food, good company, good lemonade made for a wonderful evening.

today is summer too and is rather nice.
i hope that is yorke peninsula not eyres- altho’ even that is a long drive in 40C
yesterday was too hot but we drove down the road to pick up big beautiful cherries today.
…and your spiced lime drinks are chilling…

Those monsoon troughs are trying to swing down

It looks like the rain has cleared until tomorrow afternoon at least, a good opportunity to bath the dogs and wash Shadow’s bed…

Lovely cooling shower just now, can’t keep mowing the yard but hey at least there’s something to mow…think the next band will pass to the north of us but maybe they’ll need it…

INteresting. Just looking at the local weather observations (which is out at the airport), there is no rainfall. However I’m betting we received a good 40 points of rain where I am. The airport is 5 miles away.

Dinetta said:

INteresting. Just looking at the local weather observations (which is out at the airport), there is no rainfall. However I’m betting we received a good 40 points of rain where I am. The airport is 5 miles away.

That often happens in my town too. One half wet with gutters flowing and you drive to the main st and it’s dry. ‘Rain shadows’ or something.

Looks like the “possible thunderstorm” might be a go-er…

Band of rain coming from the SW…yeehah!

looks like a cyclone forming up east of the Solomons.

weather here in Luckyland has been wonderful, around 29ºC and no humidity has meant that it feels just lubberly.

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

I am hoping that cyclone will bring us some rain without the devastation.

pomolo said:

I am hoping that cyclone will bring us some rain without the devastation.

I’ve been watching the monsoonal troughs just underneath the Indonesian archipelago and south west of PNG…they’re drifting closer daily, trying to push those east and south eastern highs out of the way…

It’s rumbling in the South West. You little ripper!!! It must be our turn.

Switching off now. Lots of lightning.

pomolo said:

It’s rumbling in the South West. You little ripper!!! It must be our turn.

Switching off now. Lots of lightning.

hope you get some wet stuff :)

pomolo said:

It’s rumbling in the South West. You little ripper!!! It must be our turn.

Switching off now. Lots of lightning.

we had a good downpour for about an hour just now :)

You should be getting some rain now, Pomolo?

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

I am hoping that cyclone will bring us some rain without the devastation.

I’ve been watching the monsoonal troughs just underneath the Indonesian archipelago and south west of PNG…they’re drifting closer daily, trying to push those east and south eastern highs out of the way…

the monsoon trough is well below Timor, but that’s about it.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

It’s rumbling in the South West. You little ripper!!! It must be our turn.

Switching off now. Lots of lightning.

hope you get some wet stuff :)

Oh we did. 21mls. Nicely placed over a couple of hours instead of 10minutes.

Dinetta said:

You should be getting some rain now, Pomolo?

‘Twas lovely Dinetta.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

It’s rumbling in the South West. You little ripper!!! It must be our turn.

Switching off now. Lots of lightning.

hope you get some wet stuff :)

Oh we did. 21mls. Nicely placed over a couple of hours instead of 10minutes.

lovely :)

We just had a bit more rain. I’m in Heaven!

pomolo said:

We just had a bit more rain. I’m in Heaven!

good stuff :)

it really is the elixer of life

trichome said:

pomolo said:

We just had a bit more rain. I’m in Heaven!

good stuff :)

it really is the elixer of life

wish it happened here more than occasionally.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

pomolo said:

We just had a bit more rain. I’m in Heaven!

good stuff :)

it really is the elixer of life

wish it happened here more than occasionally.

maybe it will in time with an altered climate

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

good stuff :)

it really is the elixer of life

wish it happened here more than occasionally.

maybe it will in time with an altered climate

The reality is that the altered climate will make my region drier and how much drier do I need to get? I’ve struggled all my life with an average of 300 mm, less or more. I’ve spent a lot of time where the average is 150 mm, so it is not as if I am unfamiliar of what getting drier feels like.

currently 14.5°C

The forecast has been for “possible thunderstorms” for about 5 days now…I think the forecast is stuck in a loop…notice with interest that the tail end of that monsoon swinging down towards the NW of WA, has now become a cyclone. Mitchell.

36mm while we were absent!

giddyup.

oh its raining again! Kahloo Kahlay!

painmaster said:

oh its raining again! Kahloo Kahlay!

Stop skiting LOL!

raining again. 36mm while I was away plus 16.5mm o’ernight and now today’s rain makes for a green garden

Just looked at the BOM, you’re certainly getting your share…Happy New Year!

I notice Cyclone Freda is too far south at the moment to have much effect on the northern weather…and too far out to sea thankfully…

None here for 2 days now. we need follow up rain.

Dear Possible Thunderstorm

I have been expecting you for nearly a week now. Please turn up.

Kindest, fondest regards…

Dinetta said:

Dear Possible Thunderstorm

I have been expecting you for nearly a week now. Please turn up.

Kindest, fondest regards…

we had 16mm this arvy…. good fun! Was going to mow after lunch… might make that tomorrow

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

Dear Possible Thunderstorm

I have been expecting you for nearly a week now. Please turn up.

Kindest, fondest regards…

we had 16mm this arvy…. good fun! Was going to mow after lunch… might make that tomorrow

Which reminds me I want to whipper snipper soon…

Dinetta said:

Dear Possible Thunderstorm

I have been expecting you for nearly a week now. Please turn up.

Kindest, fondest regards…

They got a beauty tonight, further up North.

this week is going to be nasty. Starting in the mid-thirties and working its way up to 40 for a few days over the weekend. I will be in heat management mode for me and mine. I am sweating now just thinking of it!

bluegreen said:

this week is going to be nasty. Starting in the mid-thirties and working its way up to 40 for a few days over the weekend. I will be in heat management mode for me and mine. I am sweating now just thinking of it!

and the rain forecast is 0%. The grass is crispy and I am thinking I am either going to have to get a sprinkler so that Peter Pan has something to eat, or a bale of hay, or both!

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

this week is going to be nasty. Starting in the mid-thirties and working its way up to 40 for a few days over the weekend. I will be in heat management mode for me and mine. I am sweating now just thinking of it!

and the rain forecast is 0%. The grass is crispy and I am thinking I am either going to have to get a sprinkler so that Peter Pan has something to eat, or a bale of hay, or both!

It will be 42 for at least half the week here.. nil precipitation before March..

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

this week is going to be nasty. Starting in the mid-thirties and working its way up to 40 for a few days over the weekend. I will be in heat management mode for me and mine. I am sweating now just thinking of it!

and the rain forecast is 0%. The grass is crispy and I am thinking I am either going to have to get a sprinkler so that Peter Pan has something to eat, or a bale of hay, or both!

It will be 42 for at least half the week here.. nil precipitation before March..

next 7 days starting today 35, 32, 37, 40, 42, 41, 39

I have noticed that our weather patterns are very similar, although you tend to be a couple of degrees higher in summer. I would get more rain though.

Apparently we are going up to 36C on Friday… warmish…

Dinetta said:

Apparently we are going up to 36C on Friday… warmish…

bluegreen said:

this week is going to be nasty. Starting in the mid-thirties and working its way up to 40 for a few days over the weekend. I will be in heat management mode for me and mine. I am sweating now just thinking of it!

That usually means that it will be here next. Oh goody………not.

We are headed for around 37c here today. Like everyone else it’s going to get worse as the week progresses. What joy!!

We had a shower yesterday, mist down the flats this morning and dew drops on every blade of grass…Mrs B next door commented on it, said it was a strange shower, but I said it was probably a high cloud with a narrow band of precipitation…all welcome anywho…

Forecast today, Mostly Sunny…they’ve given up on Possible Thunderstorm, looks like a non-arrival…lol!

37C and there was a sting in the sun at 07:30

Disgustingly hot. The road looks shimmery, and the stairs burnt my bare feet.

bubba louie said:

Disgustingly hot. The road looks shimmery, and the stairs burnt my bare feet.

39c so far here. I’m hiding.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

Disgustingly hot. The road looks shimmery, and the stairs burnt my bare feet.

39c so far here. I’m hiding.

31.5C here…feels hotter, I think the humidity is up…

Whoops, 37C out at the airport and 25% relative humidity…nice breeze tho…

Dinetta said:

Whoops, 37C out at the airport and 25% relative humidity…nice breeze tho…

Temp dropped after that reading. Thank heavens. Tomorrow is supposed to be slightly better but winds predicted.

According to my electronic kitchen scales, it was cooler in the cupboard than in the dining room.

Going up to 37C today, which is warmish.

Drefful hot weather down south, 45C predicted for Lucky on Friday…just as well she’s got airconditioning available so she can keep The Elf comfortable…

Dinetta said:

Going up to 37C today, which is warmish.

Drefful hot weather down south, 45C predicted for Lucky on Friday…just as well she’s got airconditioning available so she can keep The Elf comfortable…

I was hearing on the news about how public high rise housing doesn’t have airconditioning except in some public areas and they really suffer in the heat. Given that many will be aged, have illnesses or a disability it is a worry. If your disability precludes you from getting to the public areas then you can apply for personal airconditioning. I can just imagine hundreds of people crammed into limited spaces to get to the airconditioning.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Going up to 37C today, which is warmish.

Drefful hot weather down south, 45C predicted for Lucky on Friday…just as well she’s got airconditioning available so she can keep The Elf comfortable…

I was hearing on the news about how public high rise housing doesn’t have airconditioning except in some public areas and they really suffer in the heat. Given that many will be aged, have illnesses or a disability it is a worry. If your disability precludes you from getting to the public areas then you can apply for personal airconditioning. I can just imagine hundreds of people crammed into limited spaces to get to the airconditioning.

That sounds like a terrible situation.

We have a much milder day because of cloud cover…so far. Wish there was rain in some of those clods though.

pomolo said:

We are headed for around 37c here today. Like everyone else it’s going to get worse as the week progresses. What joy!!

33ºC here… Gotta love the tropics for consistency.

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

roughbarked said:

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

Time for biiiiig straw hats and loose wrist to ankle clothing…

Good luck all you southerners, with this horrible hot and dry weather…may your garden worms lurk happily and unaware of the ferocious climate above them…

27C here but in the shade it’s quite cool…

I have to say it:

I WANT MY WINTER!

I want it to be still! This bloody wind.. tomato plants so heavy they are pulling the stake out as they bend, because of the wind. I’ve got a whacko lot of criscrossing bale twine holding stakes upright so the tomatoes don’t break.

Happy Potter said:

I want it to be still! This bloody wind.. tomato plants so heavy they are pulling the stake out as they bend, because of the wind. I’ve got a whacko lot of criscrossing bale twine holding stakes upright so the tomatoes don’t break.

one answer.. if staking tomatoes use sheets of mesh and star pickets.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

Time for biiiiig straw hats and loose wrist to ankle clothing…

I decided that I had done my quotient of hours in the hot sun and came home to do some stuff in the shade.

bluegreen said:

Wot I feel like too.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I want it to be still! This bloody wind.. tomato plants so heavy they are pulling the stake out as they bend, because of the wind. I’ve got a whacko lot of criscrossing bale twine holding stakes upright so the tomatoes don’t break.

one answer.. if staking tomatoes use sheets of mesh and star pickets.

If they didn’t grow a foot a day, I would be able to keep up. They are on mesh held wth star pickets. They’re all wilting now but will pick up when the sun goes down.

How are you Gardeners going? Still 42 here in Hamilton. Port Fairy has changed, dropped from 42 at 2.00pm to 27 at 4.00pm. The wind is moving round from the North to the West here now. There is a fire down Portland way. And near Koroit. My receptionist is going to Port Fairy after work (in about an hour) so we have decided she will be going via Macarthur to completely avoid the roads around Koroit.

Record temps at Hobart, Tasmania here

Just had a look at the Mt Gambier radar, all those 42C and 40C don’t look right down there…

buffy said:

How are you Gardeners going? Still 42 here in Hamilton. Port Fairy has changed, dropped from 42 at 2.00pm to 27 at 4.00pm. The wind is moving round from the North to the West here now. There is a fire down Portland way. And near Koroit. My receptionist is going to Port Fairy after work (in about an hour) so we have decided she will be going via Macarthur to completely avoid the roads around Koroit.

Still 41ºC here and there were three fires I could see on my way into town to get a rainwater tank.

Still 40 degrees outside. Seems Port Fairy is hogging the cool change down on the coast. My chooks are panting. Even the cockatiels have their beaks open….I told them as they come from hot country they should be fine! I’ve put the low pressure sprinkler on very low for the birds in the garden. I can’t water the plants yet, it will just burn them.

currently 39.4C. Let all the chooks and ducks out together this morning and trusted that they will feel too hot to chase each other. the drake is the main culprit. The alternative was to leave them in hot pens and I just couldn’t do that to them today. Been out every now and then to provide ice for their water and make sure they are OK and they are keeping to the shade.

My chook run is shaded all day. They have water. The dogs are inside with us.

buffy said:

My chook run is shaded all day. They have water. The dogs are inside with us.

Revised figures for this week:

44°C 44°C 41°C 42°C 36°C 39°C 42°C

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

My chook run is shaded all day. They have water. The dogs are inside with us.

Revised figures for this week:

44°C 44°C 41°C 42°C 36°C 39°C 42°C

not nice :(

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

My chook run is shaded all day. They have water. The dogs are inside with us.

Revised figures for this week:

44°C 44°C 41°C 42°C 36°C 39°C 42°C

not nice :(

I’ve seen worse.

It isn’t uncommon. The problem these days is that: • We have to push ourselves through the eye of a needle to pay for a fraction of the water we used to get for a flat rate • the UV levels are way higher than I’ve ever seen and this makes a 40º day act upon the garden like it is 50º

Aouple that to a very limited and expensive supply of water and it means that gardens look like they’ve been put through a microwave. Wages do not reflect the cost of survival anymore.

Aouple means couple.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Revised figures for this week:

44°C 44°C 41°C 42°C 36°C 39°C 42°C

not nice :(

I’ve seen worse.

It isn’t uncommon. The problem these days is that: • We have to push ourselves through the eye of a needle to pay for a fraction of the water we used to get for a flat rate • the UV levels are way higher than I’ve ever seen and this makes a 40º day act upon the garden like it is 50º

Aouple that to a very limited and expensive supply of water and it means that gardens look like they’ve been put through a microwave. Wages do not reflect the cost of survival anymore.

Afraid I’d be leaving

Still 40.3 here and only mild relief overnight. I’ve spent the day keeping animals cool and garden watered. Sprinkler is on. I figure if that burns the leaves, we then at least the mist is cooling the air as they will wither anyway in the hot wind.
The silkies aren’t panting, their area is heavily shaded and is cooler. The leghorns were hanging around their gate, so I’ve opened it and they are happily mingling with the fluffballs and sharing their food.

My report (I’ve been out watering). Most things are surviving, although some French beans are cactus. They weren’t doing well anyway. But some others are doing fine. The gooseberry bushes (only a couple of years old) look a bit singed. The tomato plants are fine! The dahlias have fallen over….I need to actually tie them to their stakes in the morning.

And there are gazillions of little beetley things out there (mating furiously!). They have an elongated yellow body, olive coloured wings. I can’t manage to ID them, but they obviously think the world is going to end…

:)

roughbarked said:

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

short answer = no. There’s an 8 degree variant there. That’s wrong… I think my 7 day forecast is 33 33 33 33 33 33 33.

easey peasey lemon squeezey. I don’t even need to consult the BOM each day. February will be 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 ad nauseum…. March is 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 etc etc, you get my gist?

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

short answer = no. There’s an 8 degree variant there. That’s wrong… I think my 7 day forecast is 33 33 33 33 33 33 33.

easey peasey lemon squeezey. I don’t even need to consult the BOM each day. February will be 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 ad nauseum…. March is 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 etc etc, you get my gist?

no wonder you are the pain master ;)

an 10 degree drop in temperature can be the most wonderful gift.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

41°C 43°C 43°C 40°C 42°C 36°C 35°C

consistent enough?

short answer = no. There’s an 8 degree variant there. That’s wrong… I think my 7 day forecast is 33 33 33 33 33 33 33.

easey peasey lemon squeezey. I don’t even need to consult the BOM each day. February will be 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 32 ad nauseum…. March is 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 31 etc etc, you get my gist?

no wonder you are the pain master ;)

April is 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30
May is 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29
June is 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28 28
July is cold 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 27
August is also cold 27 27 27 27 27 27 27
September is when things are starting to warm up….

roughbarked said:

an 10 degree drop in temperature can be the most wonderful gift.

called a flight down south.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

an 10 degree drop in temperature can be the most wonderful gift.

called a flight down south.

:)
Not this week.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

an 10 degree drop in temperature can be the most wonderful gift.

called a flight down south.

:)
Not this week.

no, I see even the Taswegians are suffering…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

called a flight down south.

:)
Not this week.

no, I see even the Taswegians are suffering…

looks nasty.. yes.

It isn’t unusual for us to have 10 day to 20 day heat waves but Tasmania rarely could string two hot days together.

I see Eucla went from 48ºC one day to 26ºC the next….

painmaster said:

I see Eucla went from 48ºC one day to 26ºC the next….

wish it would do that here.. Yes there are a couple of fronts moving across but the big high in the bight is not letting any rain fall.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

I see Eucla went from 48ºC one day to 26ºC the next….

wish it would do that here.. Yes there are a couple of fronts moving across but the big high in the bight is not letting any rain fall.

and pushing those fronts south

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

I see Eucla went from 48ºC one day to 26ºC the next….

wish it would do that here.. Yes there are a couple of fronts moving across but the big high in the bight is not letting any rain fall.

and pushing those fronts south

Yep :(

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

roughbarked said:

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

Bugger that. 18C here.. where’s the little 0 come from? I’d invite you for a cuppa tea but you’re a bit far away.

Seeing chickens sitting on their perches with their wings open to try and keep cool at midnight was unreal. I’m going to use some of that big shadecloth to make a sorta kinda coolgardie safe for them, with drippers atop it. It’ll need to be rolled up in winter. I’m onto it.
If I get some more, I could do the house while I’m at it.

roughbarked said:

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

O that’s a stinker…

I think the High on the Eastern seaboard ought to take some blame as well, altho’ it’s to the south east at the moment…

Cool-ish here…24C with a cool little south easterly whiffling along…Humidity 74% but that will plummet…we have about 99% clod cover for which I’m grateful, and no prospect of precipitation that I’m aware of…in fact I think the heatwave is coming this way over the next few days… all that burning off that’s been ongoing since September will hopefully pay off…

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

Bugger that. 18C here.. where’s the little 0 come from? I’d invite you for a cuppa tea but you’re a bit far away.

the little O is “alt + 0” on a macbook.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

Bugger that. 18C here.. where’s the little 0 come from? I’d invite you for a cuppa tea but you’re a bit far away.

On my computer it is option/0. ON yours it is alt/0

Not too bad. A bit of a breeze.. @ 10 AM, 38.1°C

roughbarked said:

Not too bad. A bit of a breeze.. @ 10 AM, 38.1°C

12:00 PM.. 40.9°C

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Not too bad. A bit of a breeze.. @ 10 AM, 38.1°C

12:00 PM.. 40.9°C

1.13pm 40.4°C. Not far behind you, if only you would stop blowing all that hot air this way!

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

Not too bad. A bit of a breeze.. @ 10 AM, 38.1°C

12:00 PM.. 40.9°C

1.13pm 40.4°C. Not far behind you, if only you would stop blowing all that hot air this way!

Why do you accuse me? ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99559986@N00/8348276480/in/photostream

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

12:00 PM.. 40.9°C

1.13pm 40.4°C. Not far behind you, if only you would stop blowing all that hot air this way!

Why do you accuse me? ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/99559986@N00/8348276480/in/photostream

I have the sprinkler going for the ducks and chickens (and wild birds) and the keep the grass going for Peter Pan. Fortunately (for them) I have a bore and don’t have to worry about depleting my tanks.

Looks like the wind will switch around sometime this afternoon from a more southerly direction which should provide some relief tonight but will heat up again tomorrow.

44C at 5:37pm. Still blowing a hot northerly wind. Just put out more fresh water and ice for the animals and found a dead sparrow on the ground. the magpie family are hanging around with the chooks with beaks open panting.

I guess you don’t want to know we have had a pleasant 27 today. Although I did get a bit hot mid afternoon. I took the chance first thing this morning to clean out the grease trap. Not a favourite job, but better done in the cool than the heat.

bluegreen said:

44C at 5:37pm. Still blowing a hot northerly wind. Just put out more fresh water and ice for the animals and found a dead sparrow on the ground. the magpie family are hanging around with the chooks with beaks open panting.

Typical, they never get the weather right.. they told me three updated temps for today before the event and still got it wrong.. what was it? um they started at 39 and stopped at 44 but it actually was 45°C

wonder whether tomorrow will be 44 or 48?

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

44C at 5:37pm. Still blowing a hot northerly wind. Just put out more fresh water and ice for the animals and found a dead sparrow on the ground. the magpie family are hanging around with the chooks with beaks open panting.

Typical, they never get the weather right.. they told me three updated temps for today before the event and still got it wrong.. what was it? um they started at 39 and stopped at 44 but it actually was 45°C

wonder whether tomorrow will be 44 or 48?

the wind change has come through and it has dropped to 32.

It’s a gorgeous 14 degrees outside now. Even feels chilly in the breeze.

:)

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

5:38 AM, 32ºC

sigh.

Bugger that. 18C here.. where’s the little 0 come from? I’d invite you for a cuppa tea but you’re a bit far away.

On my computer it is option/0. ON yours it is alt/0

alt = option here.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Bugger that. 18C here.. where’s the little 0 come from? I’d invite you for a cuppa tea but you’re a bit far away.

On my computer it is option/0. ON yours it is alt/0

alt = option here.

That’s because yours is a Mac. ;)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

On my computer it is option/0. ON yours it is alt/0

alt = option here.

That’s because yours is a Mac. ;)

correct. However the key on a mac gives you both options. it has option written across the key on the lower edge and alt written in the top left hand corner.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

alt = option here.

That’s because yours is a Mac. ;)

correct. However the key on a mac gives you both options. it has option written across the key on the lower edge and alt written in the top left hand corner.

Yes, that’s correct.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

That’s because yours is a Mac. ;)

correct. However the key on a mac gives you both options. it has option written across the key on the lower edge and alt written in the top left hand corner.

Yes, that’s correct.

I tried all but to no avail. The little 0 eludes me.
Anyway, it’s a lovely 27C forecast for today and quite cool at the moment.

Morning all…downright chilly, 24.5C…it’s the ESE or even the SE, breezes that are keeping things cool…sadly these breezes don’t bring rain but every little shower we do get, keeps the aspect green…

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

correct. However the key on a mac gives you both options. it has option written across the key on the lower edge and alt written in the top left hand corner.

Yes, that’s correct.

I tried all but to no avail. The little 0 eludes me.
Anyway, it’s a lovely 27C forecast for today and quite cool at the moment.

try alt plus the 0 which gives º or alt plus the k key which gives ˚

36˚ here and I’m shifting my son’s furniture.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Yes, that’s correct.

I tried all but to no avail. The little 0 eludes me.
Anyway, it’s a lovely 27C forecast for today and quite cool at the moment.

try alt plus the 0 which gives º or alt plus the k key which gives ˚

36˚ here and I’m shifting my son’s furniture.

Too hot to move furniture. K doesn’t work either. I have a mong keyboard.

₀ only thing that works ` ~ + 0 + ~

38.7°C but finished moving furniture.

₀

Ahahah! my degree symbol has style…or attitude…using Happy Potter’s tip…

28 ⁰ C here…90% clod cover…makes it hard to do office work with broken glasses…(glary)…hmmm…

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

bluegreen said:

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

41.9°C and rising

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

41.9°C and rising

any wind today is coming from the south which helps a bit, but not much.

32. ⁰ C here, hot in the sun but pleasant in the shade if you’re getting the Easterly…

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Yes, that’s correct.

I tried all but to no avail. The little 0 eludes me.
Anyway, it’s a lovely 27C forecast for today and quite cool at the moment.

try alt plus the 0 which gives º or alt plus the k key which gives ˚

36˚ here and I’m shifting my son’s furniture.

˚ that is small

bluegreen said:

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

Arhhhhh right…. 22.3 ⁰ C

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

Arhhhhh right…. 22.3 ⁰ C

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

I tried all but to no avail. The little 0 eludes me.
Anyway, it’s a lovely 27C forecast for today and quite cool at the moment.

try alt plus the 0 which gives º or alt plus the k key which gives ˚

36˚ here and I’m shifting my son’s furniture.

˚ that is small

option k ;)

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Shift 6 gives you an up arrow. Either side of text converts you to superscript. Only works if there is also a space either side too.

Currently 37.6 ^o C

Arhhhhh right…. 22.3 ⁰ C

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Arhhhhh right…. 22.3 ⁰ C

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

Yep that’d do it.
I think I’d be dead after a week of that heat.

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

Yep that’d do it.
I think I’d be dead after a week of that heat.

It isn’t uncommon for us to have between 10 and 20 days of it. This looks to be one of those times.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Arhhhhh right…. 22.3 ⁰ C

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

41 ^o C here

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh oh oh!

22.3 ^o C

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

41 ^o C here

Was 44°C earlier

I feel like a traitor saying that our Sunday has been beautiful. Mild and cloudy with the odd shower.

Nothing traitorous about that. Just enjoy it.

:)

buffy said:

Nothing traitorous about that. Just enjoy it.

:)

true ;)

I note that White Cliffs and Willcannia got a mention on the news tonight.. White Cliffs for a 32ºC minimum though that was Friday night here.. Willcannia for 47ºC

pomolo said:

I feel like a traitor saying that our Sunday has been beautiful. Mild and cloudy with the odd shower.

I think it is actually quite unusual how widespread this heat has been. A combination of factors have led up to it and there is more to come yet.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Cooler here now.. 42.8°C but I was having trouble trying to see through the viewfinder of my camera just now because of the swimming pools of sweat in my glasses.

Yep that’d do it.
I think I’d be dead after a week of that heat.

It isn’t uncommon for us to have between 10 and 20 days of it. This looks to be one of those times.

never knew you were that close to Marble Bar…

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Yep that’d do it.
I think I’d be dead after a week of that heat.

It isn’t uncommon for us to have between 10 and 20 days of it. This looks to be one of those times.

never knew you were that close to Marble Bar…

none of os are far

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

It isn’t uncommon for us to have between 10 and 20 days of it. This looks to be one of those times.

never knew you were that close to Marble Bar…

none of os are far

none of us.. ie: just before Black Saturday, Melbourne recorded a 10 day spell of more than 35. In that same period we had 15 days above 35 amongst which were 6 days over 40.

Way back in the 20’s, a 21 day spell of temps above 120 ºF saw the whole of my town ‘s young and old hunkered down in the new cool rooms owned by Frank Nugan’s father. (of Nugan & Hand bank, fame)

I suppose this

is a blue arsed fly?

Grey clods doing their thing again today but there isn’t any rain. I’ve been doing a systematic watering of all the shrubs that stand alone. Hose on a light trickle and leave on each plant for an hour. The only to get the water where it’s needed I find.

Temp is still mild. for us, that is.

pomolo said:

Grey clods doing their thing again today but there isn’t any rain. I’ve been doing a systematic watering of all the shrubs that stand alone. Hose on a light trickle and leave on each plant for an hour. The only to get the water where it’s needed I find.

Temp is still mild. for us, that is.

Mild here too .. for 12:30 EDT pm in January.. 37.2°C

roughbarked said:

I suppose this

is a blue arsed fly?

nice

We have some light cloud cover which has reduced the temperature significantly, the website showing a mere 34.7 ^o C (laughs hysterically). Radar shows some very light bands of rain (5% chance!) but I doubt that it will even reach the ground. Tomorrow is supposed to only get to 25 ^o C after a cool night!! it will start warming up again the following day but it might give me a chance to feel more human again.

Our temp got to 37c today. Gonna be worse tomorrow. Oh what joy!.

OMG! OMG! It is only 13.6C at 8.05! It feels heavenly! Max of 25C. Shame it is not going to last more than a day.

bluegreen said:

OMG! OMG! It is only 13.6C at 8.05! It feels heavenly! Max of 25C. Shame it is not going to last more than a day.

Enjoying it here too :)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

OMG! OMG! It is only 13.6C at 8.05! It feels heavenly! Max of 25C. Shame it is not going to last more than a day.

Enjoying it here too :)

Bruddy ‘eck! I wished I’d taken a jacket to work this morning. still below 20˚C

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

OMG! OMG! It is only 13.6C at 8.05! It feels heavenly! Max of 25C. Shame it is not going to last more than a day.

Enjoying it here too :)

Bruddy ‘eck! I wished I’d taken a jacket to work this morning. still below 20˚C

We hit 40.8c and the batteries died in the weather thingy. New batteries in and it’s down to 38.8. These are outside temps and I ain’t outside.

Oh goody, the wind is blowing from the south west…just needs to swing to the north east and we’ll get rain… bring it onnnnnn!

TC Narelle is trying to do her bit, and the eastern part of the monsoonal trough has come down past Cape York…here

Our finders are crossed.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

pomolo said:

Our finders are crossed.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

so are our fingers.

pomolo said:

Our finders are crossed.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

I was watching that too…here’s hoping…

It’s official, we are one of the coolest spots in town…40C at the aerodrome where the weather station is, 36C in my kitchen which is the warmest spot in the house at the moment…

Was discussing this with MrD the other day, saying there’s generally only one degree C between the house and the aerodrome (up to the minute weather station courtesy of Rio Tinto) and he said the cooler temp would prevail at the house…so I have been watching the weather obs and the kitchen scales (which I’ve been using all along) and MrD is right, my spot is generally the cooler…

They have cancelled Boxercise at the Emerald PCYC because of the weather…I recall the Masters swimming session being called off once, because the water was 36.2C and of course you’d just heat up, no cooling off without jumping out after every lap…

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

Our finders are crossed.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

so are our fingers.

ahahaha! I never noticed… :P

Storms building up in the west, not sure if they’ll last the distance, they’ve got about 400k to cover to get here…

The weather obs say the wind is a 20 kmh northerly…still getting here as it’s calm outside…

I love watching the weather…

Dinetta said:

They have cancelled Boxercise at the Emerald PCYC because of the weather…I recall the Masters swimming session being called off once, because the water was 36.2C and of course you’d just heat up, no cooling off without jumping out after every lap…

when I used to teach swimming to toddlers the indoor pool temp was set at 29-30C. There were always complaints from the lap swimmers that shared the pool that it was too hot, but it needed to be warm for the babies and after standing in the water for a few hours you got cold.

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

pomolo said:

Our finders are crossed.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.html

so are our fingers.

ahahaha! I never noticed… :P

I did ;)

bluegreen said:

when I used to teach swimming to toddlers the indoor pool temp was set at 29-30C. There were always complaints from the lap swimmers that shared the pool that it was too hot, but it needed to be warm for the babies and after standing in the water for a few hours you got cold.

..becos you weren’t moving much…the lappies would have raised their body temps with their elevated heart rates from the exercise…30C is hot… our pools aren’t heated that warm …shade is the thing…if you want hot you go in the adult-only spa and just sit…

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

when I used to teach swimming to toddlers the indoor pool temp was set at 29-30C. There were always complaints from the lap swimmers that shared the pool that it was too hot, but it needed to be warm for the babies and after standing in the water for a few hours you got cold.

..becos you weren’t moving much…the lappies would have raised their body temps with their elevated heart rates from the exercise…30C is hot… our pools aren’t heated that warm …shade is the thing…if you want hot you go in the adult-only spa and just sit…

yes, that was the point I was trying to make :)

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

when I used to teach swimming to toddlers the indoor pool temp was set at 29-30C. There were always complaints from the lap swimmers that shared the pool that it was too hot, but it needed to be warm for the babies and after standing in the water for a few hours you got cold.

..becos you weren’t moving much…the lappies would have raised their body temps with their elevated heart rates from the exercise…30C is hot… our pools aren’t heated that warm …shade is the thing…if you want hot you go in the adult-only spa and just sit…

remember snorkeling in Simpson Harbour one day at it was 31ºC temp water… Mind you over near the volcano, you could boil a megapod egg.

painmaster said:

remember snorkeling in Simpson Harbour one day at it was 31ºC temp water… Mind you over near the volcano, you could boil a megapod egg.

That’s hot, for the sea…

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

remember snorkeling in Simpson Harbour one day at it was 31ºC temp water… Mind you over near the volcano, you could boil a megapod egg.

That’s hot, for the sea…

it was like a bathtub… on cooler days it would be around 26 or 27ºC

painmaster said:

Dinetta said:

painmaster said:

remember snorkeling in Simpson Harbour one day at it was 31ºC temp water… Mind you over near the volcano, you could boil a megapod egg.

That’s hot, for the sea…

it was like a bathtub… on cooler days it would be around 26 or 27ºC

You make it sound so healthy…all that lovely salt water at such a temp…