We are in winter, right? June is winter month?
Foggy foggy foggy this morning, rolled in at about 6:30 am…
Yep! It’s winter. Or supposed to be…
I hope that every warm day is making this coming winter shorter, rather than postponing it. Usually by late August, 4-5 months of cool weather finds me unable to function properly. This year I am looking forward to breaking out from the other side unscathed :)
Where I am, a warm winter heralds an El Nino “event” this coming summer…in general we are lucky if we get 6 weeks of chilly weather, and I’m talking 0C or lower at night…this makes a nice change from the other 8 months of hot weather…
bluegreen said:
Yep! It’s winter. Or supposed to be…
Any chilli weather down your way, BlueGreen?
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
Yep! It’s winter. Or supposed to be…
Any chilli weather down your way, BlueGreen?
It got to about 14°C today and I stayed inside with the heater on, so I guess it is getting that way :) It looks like being a relatively mild winter though, according to the boffins.
The “local” radar is out of commission until 6th June, for annual maintenance…
:(
boooo
Wet wet wet fog right now, dripping off the railings and I can’t put last night’s air-dried dishes away because they’re wet again! chuckled
Water dripping down the only insect screen and there’s a layer of moisture on the floor leading to the back door, about 1.25 metres of it…I can see the fog swirling in a little breeze that’s springing up…
Either I am getting used to it or this is a mild winter. Nice not to sweat as soon as I walk out the door. It takes at least 5 minutes now for the sweat to appear. Night time temps have been getting down to around 22ºC. Daytime temps are around 29ºC.
Now it’s getting cooler. This morning it is three degrees out there. Going for a 17, I think.
This is getting to be more my sort of weather, but it will finally finish off the remaining couple of tomato plants and the invincible yacon.
Yay, the radar is back in commission, the “annual service” has been completed…
Supposedly 18C at the moment but it feels cooler, the northwesterly will stop this morning’s bank of fog from reaching town, I think…
21.33 hrs and it’s a balmy 19C…
0.5mm of rain o’ernight. Today’s top to be only 29ºC. Tomorrow’s only 27ºC
Where’s my cardigan?
painmaster said:
0.5mm of rain o’ernight. Today’s top to be only 29ºC. Tomorrow’s only 27ºCWhere’s my cardigan?
In the storage shed?
Dinetta said:
painmaster said:
0.5mm of rain o’ernight. Today’s top to be only 29ºC. Tomorrow’s only 27ºCWhere’s my cardigan?
In the storage shed?
well played Dinetta.
painmaster said:
Dinetta said:
painmaster said:
0.5mm of rain o’ernight. Today’s top to be only 29ºC. Tomorrow’s only 27ºCWhere’s my cardigan?
In the storage shed?
well played Dinetta.
chuckle
I said that because the bulk of my winter warmies (no woolies here, too hot – except for fine wool socks) are somewhere in the storage loft above the bathroom … silly me did not label the ports (suitcases for the poms) and now I don’t know what’s in them…not cold enough just yet to go ferreting for these…
>>silly me did not label the ports (suitcases for the poms)<<
In my family we’ve had suitcases (not ports) since we came to Australia in the 1860s….
buffy said:
>>silly me did not label the ports (suitcases for the poms)<<
In my family we’ve had suitcases (not ports) since we came to Australia in the 1860s….
My family probably called them suitcases too, back in the 1850’s, but the lingo has naturalised since then for those of us North of the Border (T-I-C)
Dinetta said:
buffy said:>>silly me did not label the ports (suitcases for the poms)<<
In my family we’ve had suitcases (not ports) since we came to Australia in the 1860s….
My family probably called them suitcases too, back in the 1850’s, but the lingo has naturalised since then for those of us North of the Border (T-I-C)
Which border is that? Do you mean that lot who wear costumes instead of bathers?
There’s Australians who wear costumes????
I’m led to believe that the NSW people refer to their bathers as cossies. As in swimming costumes.
buffy said:
I’m led to believe that the NSW people refer to their bathers as cossies. As in swimming costumes.
I was raised in Sinnney and had suitcases and cossies.
trying to warm up after a chilly end to a motorcycle ride.
Under 2C when I got up, app temp was -1.7. They didn’t forecast that frost.
But I did, and I covered over the chicks with mum pen with hessian bags last night and brought 2 youngins inside in a dog crate. I’m still getting figs ripening though, how come? The little potted fig is losing it’s leaves but immature fruit continue to grow and ripen. Not that I mind :)
I reckon I’ll get another week or two from my remaining tomato plants. I’m down to4 now. Picked a couple of punnets of Brown Berries this morning.
The cabbagey things are all starting to grow now.
Happy Potter said:
Under 2C when I got up, app temp was -1.7. They didn’t forecast that frost.But I did, and I covered over the chicks with mum pen with hessian bags last night and brought 2 youngins inside in a dog crate. I’m still getting figs ripening though, how come? The little potted fig is losing it’s leaves but immature fruit continue to grow and ripen. Not that I mind :)
Really? You can grow a fig tree in a pot?
Got my compost heap going again, has been thoroughly de-bugged by Les Hens…again…
Actually speaking I think they just like hanging out with me when I’m working on the heap…
Have a new paper shredder and am shredding the newspapers amongst other stuff and am clearing out under the roosts (shredded paper there too) as they are about 12 months worth and a bit pongy…
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
Under 2C when I got up, app temp was -1.7. They didn’t forecast that frost.But I did, and I covered over the chicks with mum pen with hessian bags last night and brought 2 youngins inside in a dog crate. I’m still getting figs ripening though, how come? The little potted fig is losing it’s leaves but immature fruit continue to grow and ripen. Not that I mind :)
Oh you are a good human to your chickies…Really? You can grow a fig tree in a pot?
I hope so anyway. It’s in a really big pot and it’s staying in the pot. I espaliered it on a large piece of steel mesh, I can add to the width of the mesh as it grows out but any height will get cut off. I will keep trimming it and see how it goes over time.
The two young pullets are used to coming inside of a night now. Before it gets dark they start crying out and wait at the gate for me to pick them up.
Happy Potter said:
I hope so anyway. It’s in a really big pot and it’s staying in the pot. I espaliered it on a large piece of steel mesh, I can add to the width of the mesh as it grows out but any height will get cut off. I will keep trimming it and see how it goes over time.
The two young pullets are used to coming inside of a night now. Before it gets dark they start crying out and wait at the gate for me to pick them up.
Some chooks soon work out how useful we humans are…
The day has just become colder and it’s only 15:40 hours…
Wattle’s out: has been since the last week in May. Wevver is doing something right.
cold, wet and windy. Feels like Winter!
bluegreen said:
cold, wet and windy. Feels like Winter!
It’s wild here! Any deciduous fruits that were reluctant to shed their leaves have none now. There’s debris everywhere and the chooks are staying in. The power has dipped off and on a few times, so I’m switching off for the day and working on the storeroom, putting cupboards and spare pantry storage in. No cooking happening with an electric oven. Leftovers for tea.
-1C at the local coal mine at 06:00 this morning…1C at the local grocers at about 06:45…bit chilli…both the sooks (MrD and Sonny Jim) have only just arisen…it got down to 1C here according to the outside thermometer…enjoying the chilli break…glad it’s not year-round, tho’…
check out my rain records for the past 3 months. lots of lovely rain :)
I’ve forgotten which part of the continent you are in bluegreen.
buffy said:
I’ve forgotten which part of the continent you are in bluegreen.
NE Vic
We have just had about an hour without a shower, so I’ve done some rose pruning. The next bit requires a lot of pulling out of Alstromeria, so I don’t feel inclined to start that right now. Anyway, my bread dough has doubled, so I’d better punch it down and set it for the second proving.
-0.8C at 06:00 hrs…thought it was cold…I noticed the drop in temperature when I took Tink down to the chicken coop last night, significant I reckon, didn’t realise the house was so much warmer…
I’ve got a double thermometer, one measures max and the other measures min…
Struggling to make 15C today… apparently yesterday we were colder than Stanthorpe
“gasp”
double face palm
still only 8.2°C outside due to it being foggy most of the morning. Sun is only now starting to break through.
Dinetta said:
Hope the frost killed the prickly acacia
Disappointed that nobody’s admired the ball of ice on the barb on the barb wire fence…
sniff
Dinetta said:
Dinetta said:
Hope the frost killed the prickly acacia
Disappointed that nobody’s admired the ball of ice on the barb on the barb wire fence…
sniff
You don’t see many frosts, do you?
Dinetta said:
Dinetta said:
Hope the frost killed the prickly acacia
Disappointed that nobody’s admired the ball of ice on the barb on the barb wire fence…
sniff
oh I admired it, just didn’t say anything!
roughbarked said:
You don’t see many frosts, do you?
No we don’t…
bluegreen said:
oh I admired it, just didn’t say anything!
You’re forgiven…
I liked the wooden fence icicle curtain formation :) I so remember Clermont and how cold it got.
Happy Potter said:
I liked the wooden fence icicle curtain formation :) I so remember Clermont and how cold it got.
That might be our cold “fling” for the year..storm clouds gathering now…Altho’ early August could still throw some icicles…
Foggy foggy dew this morning…drip drip drip…
Dinetta said:
Foggy foggy dew this morning…drip drip drip…
We have actually had our third consecutive frost. When I was younger, we would have been up to around 20 or more consecutive frosts by now.
The fog is now to the north, and still moving…
Yes RoughBarked, we had many more sub-zero temps and frosts when I was a child back in the mid 1960’s… about the early 1970’s the weather started to change…maybe we were at the tail end of that mini-ice age back then?
Dinetta said:
The fog is now to the north, and still moving…Yes RoughBarked, we had many more sub-zero temps and frosts when I was a child back in the mid 1960’s… about the early 1970’s the weather started to change…maybe we were at the tail end of that mini-ice age back then?
The CSIRO weather station records show that our average was 35 consecutive frosts and that our record consecutive run at the time was 75.
In more recent years we’d be lucky to string 5 together.roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
The fog is now to the north, and still moving…Yes RoughBarked, we had many more sub-zero temps and frosts when I was a child back in the mid 1960’s… about the early 1970’s the weather started to change…maybe we were at the tail end of that mini-ice age back then?
The CSIRO weather station records show that our average was 35 consecutive frosts and that our record consecutive run at the time was 75.
In more recent years we’d be lucky to string 5 together.
We never got 75 days of frost but we’d get a few days strung together…this was “normal” weather until recently…the local native vegetation often has thick corky bark for the winters. Brachychiton are an exception…
Yes, your species are adapted to whatever your clime is.
Below freezing again this morning, can almost tell the time by the temperature drop…supposedly 14C about now, apparent is 9C and I can believe that…
-2.6C at 06:30 this morning…loving the cool change…much of the local sorghum crops have come off…the winter wheats are looking good…this is dryland…I believe the cattle are struggling, tho’: weaners paddocked already…
We got down to 1.4ºC
persistent overcast weather means the nights aren’t as cold as could be, but the days are.
I was surprised this morning to read 8 on the thermometer when I could see clear bright stars in the sky. I guess the wind has been stopping frosting. Very blustery today.
bluegreen said:
persistent overcast weather means the nights aren’t as cold as could be, but the days are.
Brilliant clear nights and days here…the day time temps aren’t going up as high but all the Happy Campers seem pleased about this…where do they all come from? There’s scads of them…
Struggled up to 23C at 16:00 hours, 10.5C @ 19:00…
maximums of 10 and 11°C for the next week.
bluegreen said:
maximums of 10 and 11°C for the next week.
Enjoy!!
We had some impressive gusts last night. Up to 80-90km/hr. A third of a big gum tree has come down in the backyard here at Casterton. Missed the shed. Missed the fence. Placed itself nicely between the other plants.
:)
When the other half falls down though, the shed will suffer.
buffy said:
We had some impressive gusts last night. Up to 80-90km/hr. A third of a big gum tree has come down in the backyard here at Casterton. Missed the shed. Missed the fence. Placed itself nicely between the other plants.
:)
When the other half falls down though, the shed will suffer.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:We had some impressive gusts last night. Up to 80-90km/hr. A third of a big gum tree has come down in the backyard here at Casterton. Missed the shed. Missed the fence. Placed itself nicely between the other plants.
:)
When the other half falls down though, the shed will suffer.
Not if you drop it where the last part fell.
Can’t. It’s leaning over the top of the shed.
Gosh, everyone must be hibernating.
:)
Wrapped up in a heated throw and thick socks on, going through recipe books. I have to stop walking about barefoot on a hard polished floor, got a nasty looking chilblain. I hate having hot feet. GS is here for the weekend and he and his dad demolished a large spinach filled cob loaf.
I spotted a rare-ish patisserie cookbook on the ‘bay’ and ordered it. Drool. Time life books. Drool.
buffy said:
Gosh, everyone must be hibernating.
:)
I’ve been two days in RockVegas…sarcasm right there, in that nickname…and only got home last night…great trip both ways…got 2 daughters sorted for the time being, Sonny Joe is home from the Uni so I took the opportunity of requesting that he feed the chookens and care for the dog and cats…ended out with all 3 males of the family present …this opportunity was too good to miss, as I don’t have any little chickens and I don’t like leaving them unsupervised…so it’s hard to get away…
buffy said:
Gosh, everyone must be hibernating.
:)
Too cold and wet to do much else. Yeah yeah, call me a wimp if you like but generally in July, I’ll only do pruning. Maybe some gathering of compostable materials.
Supposedly -4.5C here this morning, it would have been even colder at certain parts of the district, must be getting used to it as it didn’t feel so cold and RockVegas was positively summery…
Shite it’s cold!
I’m off to ballarat today to pick up a hamburg pullet, stopping in the marsh along the way for bags of apples. For cooking and ‘chooking’ :)
Happy Potter said:
Who are you thinking of chooking them at? ;)
Shite it’s cold!I’m off to ballarat today to pick up a hamburg pullet, stopping in the marsh along the way for bags of apples. For cooking and ‘chooking’ :)
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:Who are you thinking of chooking them at? ;)
Shite it’s cold!I’m off to ballarat today to pick up a hamburg pullet, stopping in the marsh along the way for bags of apples. For cooking and ‘chooking’ :)
Hehe. Whomever p’s me off. Like the hoards wanting my oranges! Lol! Navels are so beautiful eating atm, valencias next. I’m going to hide behind it and throw things at hands that come through picking oranges. I’m talking visitors here, lol.
Oh, and my score for the day..large piece of thin granite. It will make a fab pastry board. A cut out from a friends new bench, for the kitchen sink. I’m going to back it with some thin board, then glue that onto an old quilting mat, like thin memory foam. That will make it non slip :)
Yes the navels are at their peak at present.
Brrrr….
Good morning Gardeners. Warmer here this morning than yesterday, 3 degrees. I am not cold. I’ve been weeding, digging and sorting. I have yacon to plant back after yesterday’s harvest. We quite liked it roasted, although not a very strong flavour. But I have to say….it’s very good fart material….
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:Who are you thinking of chooking them at? ;)
Shite it’s cold!I’m off to ballarat today to pick up a hamburg pullet, stopping in the marsh along the way for bags of apples. For cooking and ‘chooking’ :)
Good one!
Happy Potter said:
Oh, and my score for the day..large piece of thin granite. It will make a fab pastry board. A cut out from a friends new bench, for the kitchen sink. I’m going to back it with some thin board, then glue that onto an old quilting mat, like thin memory foam. That will make it non slip :)
Great score!
bluegreen said:
Brrrr….
Indeedy…
T-shirt and shorts today…a “summer is coming” sunset yesterday…but there will be another cold snap late this month or early August, I reckon…
Bit cool again this am…kitchen scales thermometer said 3C at 08:30…supposed to be 14C right now but the south-westerly cuts through the clothes…was setting the sprinkler in the chook yard so I could whippersnip after without too much plant dust etc and I shook the grass off the connector, along with about 12 inches of hose…it was an old hose…couldn’t put things together again because the connector “teeth” and the hose were too stiff…will have another go later as I really want the coop all done today…
19.4C at the aerodrome…hottest it’s been today…
Dinetta said:
19.4C at the aerodrome…hottest it’s been today…
top today was 12.8°C
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
19.4C at the aerodrome…hottest it’s been today…
top today was 12.8°C
My toes would still be froze at those temps…
I think we hit 11 at one point this afternoon. But I’ve been cleaning, so didn’t really get cold. I have lit the heater now though.
buffy said:
I think we hit 11 at one point this afternoon. But I’ve been cleaning, so didn’t really get cold. I have lit the heater now though.
mobility in cold weather, is everything. ;)
Supposedly 11C at the aerodrome, and apparently 6.?C strewth I’me sure feeling the 6.?C !!
Got down to -1.3C at 05:30, which is when I got up…I really do need a beanie…anybody got a good pattern?
3.5ºC @ 10:00 AM
Can you breathe?
Dinetta said:
Can you breathe?
The air is a bit thick but yes.
6ºC in this room.
7C in this house, you win!
But I do enjoy the cool change…
I’ve already been down the chook yard, and carefully set the hose…this is so the dust doesn’t fly everywhere when I whippersnip it later…the idea being I cut the grass (panic for the most part) back to the clumps and then water it, makes nice green pick for the hens…not much greens elsewhere…
The newer hoses are OK but that old hose just solidifies into rigidity and breaks easily…I know I could just replace it but why do that if it still works?
Dinetta said:
The newer hoses are OK but that old hose just solidifies into rigidity and breaks easily…I know I could just replace it but why do that if it still works?
I simply cut out the broken bits and rejoin it until there are more joiners than the hose is worth. Then I keep the joiners for when the new hose starts breaking.
roughbarked said:
I simply cut out the broken bits and rejoin it until there are more joiners than the hose is worth. Then I keep the joiners for when the new hose starts breaking.
Ran the mower over another part of it and am pretty sure the joiners would be more than a new hose…but I agree with your method…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
I simply cut out the broken bits and rejoin it until there are more joiners than the hose is worth. Then I keep the joiners for when the new hose starts breaking.
Ran the mower over another part of it and am pretty sure the joiners would be more than a new hose…but I agree with your method…
Still far better to bury all the pipes and have taps at close proximity to moving hoses.
Dinetta said:
Got down to -1.3C at 05:30, which is when I got up…I really do need a beanie…anybody got a good pattern?
Take your pick… Full of Beanies
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
Got down to -1.3C at 05:30, which is when I got up…I really do need a beanie…anybody got a good pattern?
Take your pick… Full of Beanies
Thanks BlueGreen, I might get a book from the library just the same…there’s a lady down the bottom of the street who knits in her sleep…
Good morning Gardeners. We have about 1 degree here at the moment and the sun hasn’t bothered to come up yet. I’ve been for a walk in the dark with the dogs. I kept to the streets with lights, which is a bit limiting in a small country town.
Well done Buffy! I went with the dog last night, out of town on a nice gravel road, dark as but it’s amazing how your sight adjusts even with one of my poor night vision…it was 5C and I wore a jumper (OK it was cotton knit, quite thick) and I lasted 20 minutes…refer July ’14 thread for saga…
Woo Hoo, it has reached 5.1ºC!
roughbarked said:
Woo Hoo, it has reached 5.1ºC!
Warming up, hey!
roughbarked said:
Woo Hoo, it has reached 5.1ºC!
still only 4.8ºC here. I will have to brave the outdoors and let the chooks and ducks out soon. Also need to go up to the hall this morning to claim my expenses for slices for the Bald Archy’s.
Made it up to 24C today, which was nice…
I think we got to around 11 degrees. Might manage 14 tomorrow.
buffy said:
I think we got to around 11 degrees. Might manage 14 tomorrow.
Managed 15ºC here but only for about half an hour.
Today got to 13°C, currently 4.7°C, heading for -2°C.
ups the heater a tad more…
bluegreen said:
Today got to 13°C, currently 4.7°C, heading for -2°C.ups the heater a tad more…
heaters cost money. I just wrap in a sleeping bag.
roughbarked said:
bluegreen said:
Today got to 13°C, currently 4.7°C, heading for -2°C.ups the heater a tad more…
heaters cost money. I just wrap in a sleeping bag.
shakes head
Sad, innit?
If I put my warm trackksuit pants on, and my warm pj top and singlet and t shirt…I wouldn’t feel so cold…but I think I will wear a jumper as well tonight…
heads off to top up hot water bottle
>>If I put my warm trackksuit pants on, and my warm pj top and singlet and t shirt…I wouldn’t feel so cold…but I think I will wear a jumper as well tonight…<<
Is this for sleeping? And under a doona as well? I’d be blowing steam in about 2 minutes flat! I sleep in a t-shirt type nightie. My concession to winter is to sometimes put on a pair of t-shirt material shorts and sometimes a lightweight cotton cardigan. And we ditched the doona when we tried it a few weeks ago as it was waaaay too hot. Back to using a couple of light blankets. And we don’t overheat the bedroom, I think it is about 10 or so in there mostly.
However, this morning, in deference to the frost on the ground and temperature around -1, I wore a short sleeved t-shirt, a knitted jumper……and I put a windcheater thingy of polar fleece over the top to go for a walk. Explorer socks and elastic sided work boots. And I put gloves on too, I’ve got a very warm light pair of knitted angora ones.
Now going to head off to Casterton to cut grass and chop up the big bit of tree that has fallen right across the back yard.
buffy said:
>>If I put my warm trackksuit pants on, and my warm pj top and singlet and t shirt…I wouldn’t feel so cold…but I think I will wear a jumper as well tonight…<<
Is this for sleeping? And under a doona as well? I’d be blowing steam in about 2 minutes flat!
Dinetta said:
Yes. For sleeping. This is an old Queenslander, highset on 8’ stumps, I think it might be getting on for its’ century? and the weather in the bedroom is just marginally a degree or two warmer than outside the house. So it gets to minus in the house/bedroom .Buffy said:
And we ditched the doona when we tried it a few weeks ago as it was waaaay too hot.Dinetta said:
It’s certainly warmer when P is in the bed but he’s only here a couple days a week, and the doona is baffled in such a way that the feathers can be moved down to the “channel” baffle at the bottom of the quilt, so P can have few feathers on his side and I can have many…It’s the first time he’s tolerated this quilt as the other house was snug and the quilt was too hotBuffy said:
However, this morning, in deference to the frost on the ground and temperature around -1, I wore a short sleeved t-shirt, a knitted jumper……and I put a windcheater thingy of polar fleece over the top to go for a walk. Explorer socks and elastic sided work boots. And I put gloves on too, I’ve got a very warm light pair of knitted angora ones.Dinetta said:
Nearly all of my winter gear is acrylic (synthetic, anyhow) and cotton…wool is just too hot and the cold weather is only here about 6 weeks…I think a beanie would make outdoors walking in the single digit temps, more tolerable…way back when the cold weather was more consistent (the 1960’s in my memory), balaclavas were the “go” until the sun warmed up…
Warm day today, made it up to 23.7C at the aerodrome…just think, in a couple of months this will be blissfully cool night time temperatures…
Dinetta said:
Warm day today, made it up to 23.7C at the aerodrome…just think, in a couple of months this will be blissfully cool night time temperatures…
23.7 is blissful at any time of year.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Warm day today, made it up to 23.7C at the aerodrome…just think, in a couple of months this will be blissfully cool night time temperatures…
23.7 is blissful at any time of year.
You can work in it during daylight hours, for starters…
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
Dinetta said:
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
I can recall frosts on the 30th Nov.
Dinetta said:
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
nights are warming up a bit, daytime marginally. I very much doubt we have seen the last of the frosts though.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
nights are warming up a bit, daytime marginally. I very much doubt we have seen the last of the frosts though.
Around here typically, the coldest night occurs in the month between mid July to mid August. We get the winds off the snow.
We had a toasty 8 this morning. And it felt warm. It’s still a bit overcast, but I’m about to go out and dig dirt and scoria, so I won’t be feeling any cold inside about 5 minutes.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
I can recall frosts on the 30th Nov.
Now that would make for a pleasant november here…also kill off the mangoes and banana bushes and….
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Warming up here, frosts are likely finished for the year…
I can recall frosts on the 30th Nov.
Now that would make for a pleasant november here…also kill off the mangoes and banana bushes and….
I see where Scotland is basking in a “rare heatwave with temperatures in the mid to high 20’s”… poor sods…
Fog. Nefertiti had her head shoved under her paw, almost up to her ears. Possibly not so cold (haven’t checked yet) but the air is certainly damp…pretty sure all the dryland sorghum has come off…the winter wheat crop desparately needs more than drizzle or fog…
We woke to 4 degrees and fog this morning. Been for a walk and eaten some breakfast. In that time the fog has lifted, the sun came out….and then it got all shy again and went behind some light cloud. It’s looking promising for a nice day outside digging and putting cuttings into pots.
We can expect Max of 27C all next week..so I’d better get this chooken roost sorted.
still very foggy here.
27°C? That’s getting to Summer temps! 15°C is the highest we can expect here.
9C. Feels warmish!
Dinetta said:
9C. Feels warmish!
Lucky you. Just crawled up to 4.9. Going to be at or below zero for the rest of the week.
Yes I saw that mahoosive cold front the other day…shoving all before it…
Dinetta said:
Yes I saw that mahoosive cold front the other day…shoving all before it…
I was only telling buffy a week or so ago when she said winter feels like it is over, I said that never fear, we hadn’t reached our coldest day yet. Think I said the cold starts on the 28th July. Well what I usually say is that the last week of July and the first week of August are the period when we will get our coldest days.
Today is currently -2.6°C but it feels like -4.8°C
roughbarked said:
I was only telling buffy a week or so ago when she said winter feels like it is over, I said that never fear, we hadn’t reached our coldest day yet. Think I said the cold starts on the 28th July. Well what I usually say is that the last week of July and the first week of August are the period when we will get our coldest days.Today is currently -2.6°C but it feels like -4.8°C
shivers
Might make my porridge…
There’s a gusty south easterly at the moment, great drying weather as I work my way through the contents of the floor-drobe…might need to shovel some chook-sheet to warm up…
roughbarked said:
Lovely! Splendid shot…
Summer in the air this morning…
5C at 5 am…warming up,,, I have just the onkaparinga blanket and a dracon “doona” but also a hotwater bottle…suits both me and the cat…and a t shirt and thin cotton socks..
The temps hzve been jumping by 4C between 7:30 and 8:00 am…now 11 or 12C…
Rain falling down…pitter patter…more nuisance at this stage, but we’ll not knock it back…
Dinetta said:
Rain falling down…pitter patter…more nuisance at this stage, but we’ll not knock it back…
It would be good to see some.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Rain falling down…pitter patter…more nuisance at this stage, but we’ll not knock it back…
It would be good to see some.
Didn’t you get any a couple of weeks ago?
Dinetta said:
Not really. A few spots.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Rain falling down…pitter patter…more nuisance at this stage, but we’ll not knock it back…
It would be good to see some.
Didn’t you get any a couple of weeks ago?
Checking the BOM for temps last night, early this morning…the temps weren’t that cold but the humidity was 95% and that probably why it felt like the cold was going through the clothes and blanket…
25C at the moment…warming up…