Forgot…December = “summer” weather…and I see the signs of the first monsoonal trough inching down from southern Indonesia…
We have grass that looks like mid January. Rainfall has been quite pitiful around here this season.
My solar panels got installed yesterday, and one of the fellows helped put up my shadecloth on the side of the house and I have a new wall mounted remote control fan in the bedroom. So I am as ready as I am going to be for summer.
bluegreen said:
My solar panels got installed yesterday, and one of the fellows helped put up my shadecloth on the side of the house and I have a new wall mounted remote control fan in the bedroom. So I am as ready as I am going to be for summer.
Cool! :)
We got some rain! We got some rain!
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94829.shtml
And you Queenslanders can just be quiet about the amount…it’s a lot for us.
:)
buffy said:
We got some rain! We got some rain!
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94829.shtml
And you Queenslanders can just be quiet about the amount…it’s a lot for us.
:)
spitting here. possible storms tonight. got the sprinkler on the vege patch anyway.
buffy said:
We got some rain! We got some rain!
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94829.shtml
And you Queenslanders can just be quiet about the amount…it’s a lot for us.
:)
I was going to say…but I won’t…
Well! Nice to have proof that precipitation is still possible, isn’t it?
I know it looks extravagant, but I have the sprinkler on the netting cover of the Maternity Ward, this is because not much was coming through the aviary netting that makes the wall of the Ward…about to go down and move it…building up the damp earth for Lavender and her chick so they’ll always have a cool spot no matter where the shade…also enables decent fossicking…
20:30 hrs here, 21:30 with daylight saving…and the temp is 30C….does 30C at 21:30 hours sound sane to you???
Dinetta said:
20:30 hrs here, 21:30 with daylight saving…and the temp is 30C….does 30C at 21:30 hours sound sane to you???
no.
There has been thunder and lightning here and 7mm of rain.
Dinetta said:
20:30 hrs here, 21:30 with daylight saving…and the temp is 30C….does 30C at 21:30 hours sound sane to you???
Where I grew up it was normal for this time of year. In summer it was often 40 at midnight.
roughbarked said:
pretty :)
roughbarked said:
Go the orb weaver!!
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
20:30 hrs here, 21:30 with daylight saving…and the temp is 30C….does 30C at 21:30 hours sound sane to you???
Where I grew up it was normal for this time of year. In summer it was often 40 at midnight.
I suppose you could become accustomed but it does not sound comfortable…
Dinetta said:
It was never comfortable no.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
20:30 hrs here, 21:30 with daylight saving…and the temp is 30C….does 30C at 21:30 hours sound sane to you???
Where I grew up it was normal for this time of year. In summer it was often 40 at midnight.
I suppose you could become accustomed but it does not sound comfortable…
roughbarked said:
It was never comfortable no.
So how did you cope?
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:It was never comfortable no.
So how did you cope?
without air conditioning? A fan if we were lucky. Later there were evaporative air conditioners. Otherwise just lay around in a lather of sweat. I developed the lifestyle of staying outside a lot of the night. Workingg at night. Because if it isn’t apparent, when it is 40 at midnight it has been 45+ all day for weeks and weeks on end.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:It was never comfortable no.
So how did you cope?
without air conditioning? A fan if we were lucky. Later there were evaporative air conditioners. Otherwise just lay around in a lather of sweat. I developed the lifestyle of staying outside a lot of the night. Workingg at night. Because if it isn’t apparent, when it is 40 at midnight it has been 45+ all day for weeks and weeks on end.
Was never uncommon to have three weeks above 38. have a few days respite then more hot stuff. To tell the truth I don’t want to go back there ever. I’ve done the obligatory 60 years of it.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:It was never comfortable no.
So how did you cope?
without air conditioning? A fan if we were lucky. Later there were evaporative air conditioners. Otherwise just lay around in a lather of sweat. I developed the lifestyle of staying outside a lot of the night. Workingg at night. Because if it isn’t apparent, when it is 40 at midnight it has been 45+ all day for weeks and weeks on end.
Wow…
Yes, we slept out on the back grass during the ’69 drought, it was so hot…used to take the floor mats down…the grown ups would sit up in their chairs, talking…ceiling fans were unheard of, the little fan we had was for dinner time only (to cool us down so we could eat our hot dinner – no BBQ’s for dinner back then) and one year my parents bought a BonAire mobile evap cooler…again only used for dinner time…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:So how did you cope?
without air conditioning? A fan if we were lucky. Later there were evaporative air conditioners. Otherwise just lay around in a lather of sweat. I developed the lifestyle of staying outside a lot of the night. Workingg at night. Because if it isn’t apparent, when it is 40 at midnight it has been 45+ all day for weeks and weeks on end.
Wow…
Yes, we slept out on the back grass during the ’69 drought, it was so hot…used to take the floor mats down…the grown ups would sit up in their chairs, talking…ceiling fans were unheard of, the little fan we had was for dinner time only (to cool us down so we could eat our hot dinner – no BBQ’s for dinner back then) and one year my parents bought a BonAire mobile evap cooler…again only used for dinner time…
Those BonAire things were BS anyway. To cool the air they needed dry air and they were inside the house so they weren’t very effective. Besides the spillage of water as you tried to move them around or refill them. They were made in Leeton by the way.
roughbarked said:
Those BonAire things were BS anyway. To cool the air they needed dry air and they were inside the house so they weren’t very effective. Besides the spillage of water as you tried to move them around or refill them. They were made in Leeton by the way.
Our family one is still going, it has outlasted all the ones I bought for my family whilst raising the kidlets…ours was a big old Queenslander so heaps of air, and this town is famous for its’ dry heat…so the BonAire and the conditions ticked all the boxes…gee whiz it was a cold cooler…
roughbarked said:
Those BonAire things were… … made in Leeton by the way.
Made in Australia? Probably why it has lasted so long…
Dinetta said:
Yes they did work if the house had air flowing through it. he problem is that the instructions were rarely followed and the users closed the windows to keep the hot air out. Thus the house filled up with humid air which negated the effect of the cooler.
roughbarked said:Those BonAire things were BS anyway. To cool the air they needed dry air and they were inside the house so they weren’t very effective. Besides the spillage of water as you tried to move them around or refill them. They were made in Leeton by the way.
Our family one is still going, it has outlasted all the ones I bought for my family whilst raising the kidlets…ours was a big old Queenslander so heaps of air, and this town is famous for its’ dry heat…so the BonAire and the conditions ticked all the boxes…gee whiz it was a cold cooler…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Those BonAire things were… … made in Leeton by the way.
Made in Australia? Probably why it has lasted so long…
Yep.
Anyway, my advice is probably not much good because I’m 
roughbarked said:
Yes they did work if the house had air flowing through it. he problem is that the instructions were rarely followed and the users closed the windows to keep the hot air out. Thus the house filled up with humid air which negated the effect of the cooler.
Unreal, and even now, people don’t turn their evap house coolers on until it’s hot…
roughbarked said:
Anyway, my advice is probably not much good because I’m
…and I’m not far behind…
Rain!
Hail!
Wind!…
and the usual tunder and lightning…
Thankfully not much damage, well none to property that I know of…but amazingly the weather station at the aerodrome measured zilch…
Very scattered rain…the aerodrome weather station recorded 38mm at 09:00 this morning, we received zilch…the clods are very narrow…not much damage, if any, from the hail…
Everything is so spritly this morning, fresh from the rain and there is a light breeze blowing…hope everyone gets some soaking precipitation soon…
What’s on the radar is going to skip us, I think…the rain is spreading the lurve…
Dinetta said:
What’s on the radar is going to skip us, I think…the rain is spreading the lurve…
Certainly hasn’t missed us. Very heavy rain right now :)
Apres le deluge…flying ants…
AnneS said:
Dinetta said:
What’s on the radar is going to skip us, I think…the rain is spreading the lurve…
Certainly hasn’t missed us. Very heavy rain right now :)
Be nice and green for Christmas…
It’s back to early spring weather, cool and heavy drizzle between heavier showers. Gardens loving it. Chooks aren’t but.
Coolish 28C here, I see where the minimum at the aerodrome was 20.4C at 03:00…the breeze is coming from the north north west, which does not auger well for rain but if the winds don’t go hot and dry, it will be great grass-growing conditions…
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:
Dinetta said:
What’s on the radar is going to skip us, I think…the rain is spreading the lurve…
Certainly hasn’t missed us. Very heavy rain right now :)
Be nice and green for Christmas…
Got 24mm here :)
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:Certainly hasn’t missed us. Very heavy rain right now :)
Be nice and green for Christmas…
Got 24mm here :)
12 mm yesty eve. On top of 33, 39, 53 and 6 over the 10 days before that.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
AnneS said:Certainly hasn’t missed us. Very heavy rain right now :)
Be nice and green for Christmas…
Got 24mm here :)
61mm here. Humidity 66% at present. Might sweat a bit of weight off if I get out there now :)
roughbarked said:
12 mm yesty eve. On top of 33, 39, 53 and 6 over the 10 days before that.
Another country…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:12 mm yesty eve. On top of 33, 39, 53 and 6 over the 10 days before that.
Another country…
37C…so my neighbour has gone for a jog…but he is wearing one of those baseball caps…
We’ve just lost all ABC stations on the TV. Trying to watch Death in Paradise. But it’s coming out of Sydney at a guess. The stormtracker suggests Sydney is a bit staticky…..
Flying ants, again…P tells me that they can emerge for four nights on the trot…
Dinetta said:
Flying ants, again…P tells me that they can emerge for four nights on the trot…
Yep they can go for several days. Sure they aren’t termites?
I had an interesting evening. The neighbour across the road has rabbits and she called up to come and take a diamond python away. I took it several Km away and was loath to let it go. Such a beautiful snake.
roughbarked said:
I had an interesting evening. The neighbour across the road has rabbits and she called up to come and take a diamond python away. I took it several Km away and was loath to let it go. Such a beautiful snake.
Is that the same as a carpet snake…?
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Flying ants, again…P tells me that they can emerge for four nights on the trot…
Yep they can go for several days. Sure they aren’t termites?
Flying ants, they are big blighters…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:I had an interesting evening. The neighbour across the road has rabbits and she called up to come and take a diamond python away. I took it several Km away and was loath to let it go. Such a beautiful snake.
Is that the same as a carpet snake…?
yes.
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Flying ants, again…P tells me that they can emerge for four nights on the trot…
Yep they can go for several days. Sure they aren’t termites?
Flying ants, they are big blighters…
I had a quick look, they are ants not termites…different body structures…
Dinetta said:
I had a quick look, they are ants not termites…different body structures…
Yes. They have different body structure and it pays to know this.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Flying ants, again…P tells me that they can emerge for four nights on the trot…
Yep they can go for several days. Sure they aren’t termites?
I had an interesting evening. The neighbour across the road has rabbits and she called up to come and take a diamond python away. I took it several Km away and was loath to let it go. Such a beautiful snake.
We get termite swarms in the late afternoon on hot days quite a lot
We enjoyed a slow-moving soak of rain at 04:00 this morning, the aerodrome (weather station) measured about 28 mils (over an inch) between 04:00 and 06:30 , I think it was…
Got up and moved Tink and A Button (or Button, A if you’re just-for-fun pedantic)..because he’s As Cute As…anyway moved them to the commercial A-Frame, because the way the rain was coming down I was worried about a flood coming up under Tink’s little cubby…then took them out about 06:30 when the rain was mostly gone…
Lovely to see everything green up so fast. Hopefully the flying ants have gone off to their little holes in the ground…this is great conditions for whipper-snippering, very little dust…
Think we will get rain tonight…so far we have just had isolated storms (but very nice, generouse ones) …if we get a couple of days of them, steady falls almost non-stop…I think I can klss my Christmas trip (to Fashionista’s – family get together)…good bye…the creeks will be up and running and I have no intention of becoming marooned in RockVegas over Christmas / New Year, ever again…so I need to stock up on UHF milk and food I can eat straight from the can…we there there is a helly-copter inspecting the power lines, P thought they were looking for something but with that power blackout in the AM last week, we think they might be checking the power lines for possible tree damage etc…not much they can do about bats or crows (I still remember that one, all those years ago) short-circuiting and catching fire, setting the grass alight etc…
According to the BoM, the humidity was 96% (relative) at 05:00 this morning, and is only 51% now…it feels muggier now but I guess that’s an effect of the temp at 35C…
Was talking to the car service lady and she mentioned how amazing it was: last week the front of the place was tennis-court bare, today (even compared to yesterday) the green grass is thick … folk are frantically mowing before the green gets away on them…
blissful sigh
big storm just went over, hail and pouring rain. just going to lock up the chooks and ducks before the next lot comes over.
bluegreen said:
big storm just went over, hail and pouring rain. just going to lock up the chooks and ducks before the next lot comes over.
Be glad when we pass out of the hail “season”…
You’ve got a cold front coming through too…Not planning to bike anywhere in the next few days, are you?
Dinetta said:
You’ve got a cold front coming through too…Not planning to bike anywhere in the next few days, are you?
No :)
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
You’ve got a cold front coming through too…Not planning to bike anywhere in the next few days, are you?No :)
although I much prefer riding in cold weather than hot.
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
You’ve got a cold front coming through too…Not planning to bike anywhere in the next few days, are you?No :)
although I much prefer riding in cold weather than hot.
I suppose…you can always rug up more when it’s colder…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:No :)
although I much prefer riding in cold weather than hot.
I suppose…you can always rug up more when it’s colder…
Windburn is less of a problem.
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:No :)
although I much prefer riding in cold weather than hot.
I suppose…you can always rug up more when it’s colder…
I always wear my protective gear and it can get rather hot.
bluegreen said:
I always wear my protective gear and it can get rather hot.
Yes, I see them riding out here in full leathers, in the summer, and think “boy you must cook when you stop”. Better to cook than scar, tho’…
Rain! Again! Hooray! Doesn’t look like a hail stom, on the BoM, but I’ve just remembered the windows are a little bit down…
Dinetta said:
Rain! Again! Hooray! Doesn’t look like a hail stom, on the BoM, but I’ve just remembered the windows are a little bit down…
Don’t you hate that? Loving the rain only to come in and find the ironing board soaking wet or something like that..
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Rain! Again! Hooray! Doesn’t look like a hail stom, on the BoM, but I’ve just remembered the windows are a little bit down…
Don’t you hate that? Loving the rain only to come in and find the ironing board soaking wet or something like that..
Aaargh! Oh my ironing board would never recover, it’s got thick felting for the base…
21:30 and 30C…
There’s a storm going around, I thought we might get it but it’s sliding to the south…
The storms are approaching from the north-west now, instead of from the south-west…
The storms went around last night, it was windless night as well, thank goodness for standard fans…
Overcast today…
We had 90 mm here in 34 hours.
roughbarked said:
We had 90 mm here in 34 hours.
Good going…
slightly overcast and very windy. Spot fires popping up over the state by the looks of it. Passed the fire truck on my way back from shopping but looking at the website it seems it was a false alarm.
bluegreen said:
slightly overcast and very windy. Spot fires popping up over the state by the looks of it. Passed the fire truck on my way back from shopping but looking at the website it seems it was a false alarm.
Weird here on Boxing day. We had 17 mm in a downpour and just afterwards the air was full of smoke from a nearby bushfire. The was no lightning.
Nice lot of rain just now, the weather station wasn’t so lucky and only recorded about 10 points…my house rainwater tank overfloweth
:)
The chookens are out busy scratching…Lavender got to bed early with The Cisco Kid and she’s not coming down just now thank you…
My 18oz Hessian turned up, I’m a bit disappointed that it seems more loosely woven than I thought it would be but compared to the 14oz stuff it’s marginally denser, I think I will have to use double layers to the east and west of the back deck, and order more for the western side of the front verandah…
Strung all 10 metres of it (1.8m wide) across the HIlls Hoist and hosed it to aid shrinking, the downpour just now was very helpful in that regard…If I could have been certain that there was no hail I would have left Ragamuffin’s car out to get rinsed … the hailstorms should be just about out of season by now but those couple of monsoonal days will be better…
It’s just nice now but getting some hot days coming up. I’m prepared. Gardens well mulched and watered. Shade areas for chickens. Less chickens to worry about in the heat.
I’ve been busy out with the very handy trendy trailer collecting free bales of straw and delivering them about, kept 4 for myself. Some were from a church’s nativity scene, others from barnyard dances or kids birthday parties outdoor seating. My carport and patio are covered in straw and I’m stuffed.
Happy Potter said:
It’s just nice now but getting some hot days coming up. I’m prepared. Gardens well mulched and watered. Shade areas for chickens. Less chickens to worry about in the heat.I’ve been busy out with the very handy trendy trailer collecting free bales of straw and delivering them about, kept 4 for myself. Some were from a church’s nativity scene, others from barnyard dances or kids birthday parties outdoor seating. My carport and patio are covered in straw and I’m stuffed.
Great score with the hay bales, and good on you for spreading the bounty!!
I’ve got the airconditioner going in the office, more for the dogs than anything…I know it sounds extravagant but the combo of temp + humidity makes it hard for them to cool off…
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
It’s just nice now but getting some hot days coming up. I’m prepared. Gardens well mulched and watered. Shade areas for chickens. Less chickens to worry about in the heat.I’ve been busy out with the very handy trendy trailer collecting free bales of straw and delivering them about, kept 4 for myself. Some were from a church’s nativity scene, others from barnyard dances or kids birthday parties outdoor seating. My carport and patio are covered in straw and I’m stuffed.
Great score with the hay bales, and good on you for spreading the bounty!!
I’m just paying it forward.
I have so many great people in my life. Like Les who drops in once or twice a week with a huge box of seasonal veges and fruits. And little old Alice, who’s son brews his own, wherever he brews from grains, and Alice brings me the left over but still fresh water soaked grains for my chickens. She totted over today with a bagful. And there’s Jules. she brought me four double sized temporary fence panels that I’m going to create fort ‘fox’ with for my hens. Just need to get some bags of concrete and skirt wire mesh so foxes can’t dig under, and I’ll stop worrying about foxes getting my hens.
Then there’s Barb who keeps ducks and brings me home made duck pate. I’ve had a problem with my iron levels consistently going downwards and and it’s been a bit of investigating to find out why it’s happening. I’m post menopausal so my iron levels should be high. It’s been months of keeping a food diary, but it turns out I ingest too much oxalic acid. I eat too many fresh greens. I can’t eat much meat and I hate all the preservatives in bought pate’s. Barbs an organic farmer. She’s been invaluable. I can’t get hold of enough chicken livers to make my own, that haven’t been frozen or over processed.
And there’s others. Boxes of fruit for sauces and jams just appear on my doorstep. And so on :)
Happy Potter said:
I’m just paying it forward.
I have so many great people in my life. Like Les who drops in once or twice a week with a huge box of seasonal veges and fruits. And little old Alice, who’s son brews his own, wherever he brews from grains, and Alice brings me the left over but still fresh water soaked grains for my chickens. She totted over today with a bagful. And there’s Jules. she brought me four double sized temporary fence panels that I’m going to create fort ‘fox’ with for my hens. Just need to get some bags of concrete and skirt wire mesh so foxes can’t dig under, and I’ll stop worrying about foxes getting my hens. Then there’s Barb who keeps ducks and brings me home made duck pate. I’ve had a problem with my iron levels consistently going downwards and and it’s been a bit of investigating to find out why it’s happening. I’m post menopausal so my iron levels should be high. It’s been months of keeping a food diary, but it turns out I ingest too much oxalic acid. I eat too many fresh greens. I can’t eat much meat and I hate all the preservatives in bought pate’s. Barbs an organic farmer. She’s been invaluable. I can’t get hold of enough chicken livers to make my own, that haven’t been frozen or over processed.
And there’s others. Boxes of fruit for sauces and jams just appear on my doorstep. And so on :)
Wow! Gotta love the barter / trade in goods scenario…a bit like I give J & J eggs, they’ve said I can have the pick of their mangoes whilst they’re away the next couple of weeks…P is aghast: J1 said she didn’t “like” the hail-marked mangoes so over they went to the railway reserve, dumped…I said there is nothing wrong with them (just skin marks) and the odd grub or two doesn’t mean the whole mango is bad…
Going to be 35C today, already 33C…will crank up the airconditioner in this room to keep the dogs out of trouble…
Dinetta said:
Going to be 35C today, already 33C…will crank up the airconditioner in this room to keep the dogs out of trouble…
Friday/Saturday here is forecast to be 40/41°C. I was going to go to my daughter’s on Saturday/Sunday to help celebrate Zoë’s first birthday, but am reconsidering. To keep the chooks and ducks locked up for two days in those temperatures without being there to check on them would be paramount to animal cruelty.
bluegreen said:
Friday/Saturday here is forecast to be 40/41°C. I was going to go to my daughter’s on Saturday/Sunday to help celebrate Zoë’s first birthday, but am reconsidering. To keep the chooks and ducks locked up for two days in those temperatures without being there to check on them would be paramount to animal cruelty.
Yes they find those temps distressing…you can’t get somebody to pop over several times a day? and I’m guessing you can’t leave hoses on a dribble where you are, either?
Goodness me, is Zoe 12 months already?
Dinetta said:
Goodness me, is Zoe 12 months already?
Indeed she is (on the 8th January.) Alexander is three on 3rd February.
The breeze died last night, it dies nearly every night these nights…I have the fan going but it’s got a job getting through the mosquito net…but hey, I’ve got a standard fan so I’m ahead…
The predicted temps are low for this time of year, around the 31 – 32 C mark so that’s a help…
First total fire ban for the season for us tomorrow.
Moving into the high 30s around here now. Humidity dropping down under 10%. And the wind gusts are getting up. Cross all fingers for no fires. Or tomorrow either.
buffy said:
Moving into the high 30s around here now. Humidity dropping down under 10%. And the wind gusts are getting up. Cross all fingers for no fires. Or tomorrow either.
currently 36°C here, humidity 15%. Just put the sprinkler on for the chooks & ducks next to their favourite shade tree.
34C here which is OK, I can work under the house in that…. humidity 35% (relative) so that’s OK too..the dogs took themselves to the study and waited for me to find them hint hint so the airconditioner is on…good thing about this is they don’t bark much…
Fires in Moyston I see, “too late to get out”…oh I hate bushfires, very unforgiving…we are all enjoying the lovely green aspect, such a treat after a dry year…the little corellas and the pink galahs are enjoying the seed heads of unmowed grass…
30.9°C @ 63%. not too bad compared to the past couple of days. 75 mm on new years eve was nice though.
We peaked at 40 degrees and 7% humidity with a negative dewpoint. A bit crispy.
The Moyston fire is still going. Fortunately grass fires do tend to die down a bit overnight. But tomorrow is expected to be pretty bad again.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/heatwave-tracker/
Cruel heat. I hope those fires are under control asap and no more property is lost.
Happy Potter said:
Cruel heat. I hope those fires are under control asap and no more property is lost.
It is unfortunate that fire is such a stark reality.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Cruel heat. I hope those fires are under control asap and no more property is lost.It is unfortunate that fire is such a stark reality.
and it is early in the season yet.
There’s a monsoonal trough trying to sort these fires out but those intense Highs down south won’t let it…let’s barrack for the monsoonal trough…
Dinetta said:
There’s a monsoonal trough trying to sort these fires out but those intense Highs down south won’t let it…let’s barrack for the monsoonal trough…
Monsoonal troughs really don’t affect Highs that far south.
Lightning now coming through SA and into our district. We had a short sharp burst of thunder and rain and hail about an hour ago. Found out which gutters weren’t clean. Now waiting for the followup….
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/radar/vic
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
bluegreen said:
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
Everyone is safe but their yard, fences and shed have been burnt out and minor damage to their house.
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
Everyone is safe but their yard, fences and shed have been burnt out and minor damage to their house.
Whoah! Close call…so pleased they are safe and relatively undamaged, even tho’ I don’t know them…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
Everyone is safe but their yard, fences and shed have been burnt out and minor damage to their house.
Whoah! Close call…so pleased they are safe and relatively undamaged, even tho’ I don’t know them…
Very close indeed.
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
Everyone is safe but their yard, fences and shed have been burnt out and minor damage to their house.
Lucky.
Blank canvas for the yard and garden again then. Probably the best way to think about it.
buffy said:
bluegreen said:
bluegreen said:
Fire in Hastings is in the area my Son in law’s family lives :(
Everyone is safe but their yard, fences and shed have been burnt out and minor damage to their house.
Lucky.
Blank canvas for the yard and garden again then. Probably the best way to think about it.
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
bluegreen said:
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
All true.
bluegreen said:
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
Yes. Glad it wasn’t worse but.
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
Yes. Glad it wasn’t worse but.
It is worse enough.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
Yes. Glad it wasn’t worse but.
It is worse enough.
Mel says: A Great thank you to the brave fire fighters that saved our house, special thanks to Mr Churchill from Mt Eliza or Martha cfa that stayed and fought the fire as it took our sheds and fences outdoor gear,decking ,but saved the house.Thanks to all the fire fighters and to incident controler Colin Cook for a fantastic job well done.
Apparently there is no fire or smoke damage inside the house and they are able to go straight back in. They live on the edge of a reserve which is where the fire was coming from.
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
The most important thing is that they are safe. That they still have a house is bonus.
Yes. Glad it wasn’t worse but.
That’s what I was thinking, too…
bluegreen said:
Apparently there is no fire or smoke damage inside the house and they are able to go straight back in. They live on the edge of a reserve which is where the fire was coming from.
Had they made any special provisions for potential bushfire incident, BlueGreen?…
Agree with RoughBarked, “worse enough”…
Looks like rain is moving through Victoria? Missed Adelaide I think…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:Apparently there is no fire or smoke damage inside the house and they are able to go straight back in. They live on the edge of a reserve which is where the fire was coming from.
Had they made any special provisions for potential bushfire incident, BlueGreen?…
Agree with RoughBarked, “worse enough”…
I don’t know.
Dinetta said:
Looks like rain is moving through Victoria? Missed Adelaide I think…
It’s up in NSW now. I can smell it in the air but I suspect it evaporated before it hit the ground.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:Apparently there is no fire or smoke damage inside the house and they are able to go straight back in. They live on the edge of a reserve which is where the fire was coming from.
Had they made any special provisions for potential bushfire incident, BlueGreen?…
Agree with RoughBarked, “worse enough”…
I don’t know.
They were at Zoë’s birthday party at my daughter’s when the fire started and their daughter went and picked up their dogs for them. They went home before it got to their place then had to leave again.
I didn’t get to Zoë’s birthday party myself as I haven’t been feeling well and didn’t want to leave the poultry locked up unattended in the heat.
bluegreen said:
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:Yes. Glad it wasn’t worse but.
It is worse enough.
Mel says: A Great thank you to the brave fire fighters that saved our house, special thanks to Mr Churchill from Mt Eliza or Martha cfa that stayed and fought the fire as it took our sheds and fences outdoor gear,decking ,but saved the house.Thanks to all the fire fighters and to incident controler Colin Cook for a fantastic job well done.
Apparently there is no fire or smoke damage inside the house and they are able to go straight back in. They live on the edge of a reserve which is where the fire was coming from.
Can I make a suggestion? Give the local brigade a donation. Give it to them directly and make it out to them. Don’t send it to the CFA. Make sure it stays local. And perhaps a carton of beer for the workers too. We did this when they worked at our bush block in 2005. It is greatly appreciated.
I’m thinking that councils or something should make it compulsory to attend contingency planning. The firies can only do so much prevention, etc. The onus is on the landowners to take steps to protect their properties before the natural disaster hits. So build your houses (this is already the case in northern parts of Australia: even out here the houses have to be built to a storm something or other category standard) to withstand the most likely natural disaster. Learn how to protect it: e.g. firebreaks, careful vegetative planning in fire prone areas; highset houses designed so goods can be moved upstairs in flood prone areas. Just a couple of ideas. Also, just like fire drills in places of work, take people through bushfire / flooding drills. Education is a big key to survival of these events. An absolute scandal that so many lives were lost (in Victoria) before the rest of Australia sat up and said (well I hope they did) “what should we do if it happens to us?”
The other thing is, before the big floods in Emerald, Q, the council was unable to prevent the developers from building in known flood plains. Well they could but the legal expenses were massive. It seems to me that just because there hasn’t been a flood for 50 years doesn’t mean it’s never going to happen again, and looking at the enormous levy bank that was built into the river downstream from the town: what was the council thinking?
However I feel that fundamentally education is the key: ensuring that folk have contingency plans should a natural disaster threaten and are AWARE that this disaster could happen.
The reason I’m so upset is I have read where a Kennels and Cattery was destroyed, along with the incumbent pets, in this last Adelaice fire…
There’s been a series of storms pass through Melbourne and mainly affecting the western suburbs…hopefully Happy Potter enjoyed one of these without damage…
Dinetta said:
Not here yet, maybe later. That the temperature has dropped slightly is a blessing. A storm can’t do anymore damage than the scorching winds did the other day. Small pumpkins hanging on a trellis with a few tattered leaves, torn leaves on fruit trees, leaning capsicums (now tied) and flat silverbeet. It’s nothing unusual :)
There’s been a series of storms pass through Melbourne and mainly affecting the western suburbs…hopefully Happy Potter enjoyed one of these without damage…
About 29C here now and I think it will cool down even more…the sky is clear…I am going to go out with the binoculars to see if I can find that comet, Lonergans? discovered by an Australian last year I think…it’s blueish…in the north east they said…
Dinetta said:
About 29C here now and I think it will cool down even more…the sky is clear…I am going to go out with the binoculars to see if I can find that comet, Lonergans? discovered by an Australian last year I think…it’s blueish…in the north east they said…
Lovejoy…Lovejoy…
Read all abaht it
28mm of rain yesterday. Happy with that, even if it has made it humid!
bluegreen said:
28mm of rain yesterday. Happy with that, even if it has made it humid!
Yup, never know when the next rain’s going to fall…
36C now…so it’s warming up…
Dinetta said:
36C now…so it’s warming up…
http://www.eldersweather.com.au/nsw/northern-rivers/newrybar
Finally turned the airconditioner on…. the kelpie is carrying 2kg too many and the heat gets to her…the other end of the aircon will fan the chookens under the cherry guava…
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
36C now…so it’s warming up…
http://www.eldersweather.com.au/nsw/northern-rivers/newrybar
A lot cooler than what you’re used to, I can see…
36C predicted again today…I think I’ll get the airconditioner started sooner rather than later…
We had a nice little shower of rain last night, this should make the soil workable for the chookens…
Dinetta said:
36C predicted again today…I think I’ll get the airconditioner started sooner rather than later…We had a nice little shower of rain last night, this should make the soil workable for the chookens…
I put the aircon on early on hot days so that it doesn’t have to cool a hot house down, but prevent it from heating up. I believe it is more efficient this way, and cheaper to run.
There’s a nice breeze but it’s hot in the sun…
I have put some planks of wood over half the quarter bathtub that serves as a trough for the horse…the water was still hot after sundown last night…
waiting…waiting…for a decent monsoonal trough…there’s small ones up north but not enough to deliver widespread soaking rains…not complaining, just saying…
Dinetta said:
waiting…waiting…for a decent monsoonal trough…there’s small ones up north but not enough to deliver widespread soaking rains…not complaining, just saying…
Nothing here either.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
waiting…waiting…for a decent monsoonal trough…there’s small ones up north but not enough to deliver widespread soaking rains…not complaining, just saying…
Nothing here either.
Mon to Wed look better for a sprinkle though.
Yes it does…
Finally…
“Our technicians are onsite and have isolated the issue with the XXXX radar. It is hoped to have the radar operational as soon as possible. “
So their 140 hours without radar was an accurate forecast…sorry
Our radar is still out of action…so I am going to the others and using the 512 km radius…
Dinetta said:
Our radar is still out of action…so I am going to the others and using the 512 km radius…
http://www.essentialenergy.com.au/content/stormtracker
23 deg. and raining here
trichome said:
23 deg. and raining here
Something similar here.
19C and chilli this morning at 05:00…woke me up…had to search and locate my cotton jumper and put it on so I could go back to sleep…I should have stayed up, got a head start on the day…
Yayayayay! “Our” radar is up and running, been off a week and the little “circle” where it wasn’t working has been obvious…storms have been sneaking up on us…better than no storms sneaking up…
Looking at the maps, good grass growing weather may be coming up..
Dinetta said:
Yayayayay! “Our” radar is up and running, been off a week and the little “circle” where it wasn’t working has been obvious…storms have been sneaking up on us…better than no storms sneaking up…Looking at the maps, good grass growing weather may be coming up..
didn’t know you were a grass grower. ;)
over cast (with sun wanting to emerge), humidity at about 80%, 27 deg. very slight breeze.
tomorrow they say about 34, well it is still summer up there above the clouds.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Yayayayay! “Our” radar is up and running, been off a week and the little “circle” where it wasn’t working has been obvious…storms have been sneaking up on us…better than no storms sneaking up…Looking at the maps, good grass growing weather may be coming up..
didn’t know you were a grass grower. ;)
heh heh! should be a grass mower…but I’m cleaning kitchen walls at the moment and there goes my motivation…
Grass growing = happy local economy, in my district…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Yayayayay! “Our” radar is up and running, been off a week and the little “circle” where it wasn’t working has been obvious…storms have been sneaking up on us…better than no storms sneaking up…Looking at the maps, good grass growing weather may be coming up..
didn’t know you were a grass grower. ;)
heh heh! should be a grass mower…but I’m cleaning kitchen walls at the moment and there goes my motivation…
Grass growing = happy local economy, in my district…
in most districts. :)
Picked the first zucchini of the season today. Presently eating it with beans, red shallot, garlic and chicken. And half a tin of tomatoes because they haven’t begun yet. Still, I reckon I’ll get them earlier than March this year.
40C at Ilfracombe and Blackall… poor buggers… they’ll be celebrating Australia Day with lots of eskies and lilos in their creeks…if there’s any water in them…
Dinetta said:
40C at Ilfracombe and Blackall… poor buggers… they’ll be celebrating Australia Day with lots of eskies and lilos in their creeks…if there’s any water in them…
And meantime, we are going to have a simply lovely day. Never look down on some days in the mid twenties at the end of January……there is still February to endure.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/hamilton.shtml
Radar still not working properly…massive storm overhead and according to the BoM it’s a few clods sailing by…
I think the Wet may have arrived…the tail end of a monsoon trough is right over us I think, and there’s a low trough to the west as well…
Reckon I’d better buy two bottle of milk tomorrow, the creeks are coming up for sure after this one…
3mm of rain earlier in what the locals are telling me is a very late start to the wet. During the rain ‘event’ I put nice new filters and oil and fuel and a battery in my ride-on and got that up and running once more. Machine going, the rain stopped and the clods parted ways. So I got out there and cut the excuse of the lawn that I left in good condition to which my tenants generally buggered up and I spent more time slashing then cutting.
Happy with my effort, I sat down on my old log and missed my ducks and Julia but then spied my next door neighbour in his yard, so over for a lovely chat to which he said he was more than happy to see the back of my tenants and my return. At this time, the sky grew black and bango, down came the next wave of rain, complete with chunder and lightning.
The frogs are happy.
Hard to bugger up an established lawn, even in BrownTown…now there’s a challenge for your horticultural soul…
Don’t worry, the duks and chooks will find you…
Good that you’ve still a good neighbour…
painmaster said:
3mm of rain earlier in what the locals are telling me is a very late start to the wet. During the rain ‘event’ I put nice new filters and oil and fuel and a battery in my ride-on and got that up and running once more. Machine going, the rain stopped and the clods parted ways. So I got out there and cut the excuse of the lawn that I left in good condition to which my tenants generally buggered up and I spent more time slashing then cutting.Happy with my effort, I sat down on my old log and missed my ducks and Julia but then spied my next door neighbour in his yard, so over for a lovely chat to which he said he was more than happy to see the back of my tenants and my return. At this time, the sky grew black and bango, down came the next wave of rain, complete with chunder and lightning.
The frogs are happy.
Dinetta said:
Hard to bugger up an established lawn, even in BrownTown…now there’s a challenge for your horticultural soul…Don’t worry, the duks and chooks will find you…
Good that you’ve still a good neighbour…
I’ll sort the lawn out…. make a bigger vegie patch fer sure.
Looking for chooks on sale.
Got some very lovely neighbours, all round.
When Fashionista was in the real estate, she sometimes tried to rehome flocks for the house sellers leaving town…
It’s frustrating…I look at the horizon all round…nup no clods…gets to 19:00 OK dogs let’s think about walks…up comes a guster with rain…the trouble with walks after rains is the dogs track mud into the car…
Mind you I would rather mud on the roads than dust…
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
You never know what she’ll do.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
You never know what she’ll do.
I still have fond memories of the one that wandered over from WA…as a monumental rain depression…bringing drought breaking rains on its’ way…
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
The BOM can’t see Ola???
painmaster said:
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
The BOM can’t see Ola???
Oh yes, that’s where I saw her…but in general, cyclones below Bowen, I think, aren’t generally productive of enough rain for the north- and Central-west of the state…they need to come in from a more northerly direction…the rainfall from the more southern cyclones, goes to the south west (if the weather system gets that far) and to NSW…this is a very broad generalisation…I think the rain depression from Yasi ended up in victoria??? but it’s a “rule of thumb”…
Dinetta said:
painmaster said:
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
The BOM can’t see Ola???
Oh yes, that’s where I saw her…but in general, cyclones below Bowen, I think, aren’t generally productive of enough rain for the north- and Central-west of the state…they need to come in from a more northerly direction…the rainfall from the more southern cyclones, goes to the south west (if the weather system gets that far) and to NSW…this is a very broad generalisation…I think the rain depression from Yasi ended up in victoria??? but it’s a “rule of thumb”…
Our observation is that if the West gets a cyclone, we get some rain a week or so later. But not always.
Dinetta said:
painmaster said:
Dinetta said:
We have TC Ola formed off the east coast…currently too far south to be of much use to most of our drought-stricken west…but one can hope…
The BOM can’t see Ola???
Oh yes, that’s where I saw her…but in general, cyclones below Bowen, I think, aren’t generally productive of enough rain for the north- and Central-west of the state…they need to come in from a more northerly direction…the rainfall from the more southern cyclones, goes to the south west (if the weather system gets that far) and to NSW…this is a very broad generalisation…I think the rain depression from Yasi ended up in victoria??? but it’s a “rule of thumb”…
JTWC had Ola on their maps. They say it is heading for Hervey Bay, but weakening.
buffy said:
Dinetta said:
painmaster said:The BOM can’t see Ola???
Oh yes, that’s where I saw her…but in general, cyclones below Bowen, I think, aren’t generally productive of enough rain for the north- and Central-west of the state…they need to come in from a more northerly direction…the rainfall from the more southern cyclones, goes to the south west (if the weather system gets that far) and to NSW…this is a very broad generalisation…I think the rain depression from Yasi ended up in victoria??? but it’s a “rule of thumb”…
Our observation is that if the West gets a cyclone, we get some rain a week or so later. But not always.
Yasi ended up dropping rain on the Isa and Alice.
And it’s the first of February and I’m wearing a light wind cheater. My sort of Summer.
Did I mention this is my sort of Summer?
:)
Well, except that the beans have stopped setting and the tomatoes are on Go Slow.
Got up to 35C today…our kind of summer…
Dinetta said:
Got up to 35C today…our kind of summer…
same.
And in fact the January average temperature high for Hamilton was ban on average. Three or four days in the high thirties to low forties pulled the average up there. I’m a bit surprised. It’s been rather pleasant for most of the time.
Very blue sky out there this morn’. Another hot day with damp soil means my grass is growing faster than I can cut it… well not quite.
Townsville’s mean max for Jan was 32.9º which is 1.5º above the Jan average…
Average this month 27.6°C +0.1°C
painmaster said:
Townsville’s mean max for Jan was 32.9º which is 1.5º above the Jan average…
and the mean low was 26.3º which was 2º above….
so the locals have been right when they say it has been a hot start to the year, but then they say that me coming from Moresby would be used to it, but I interject by saying that Moresby being 10º closer to the equator doesn’t have such variations in weather that Townsville does. Moresby is probably cooler in Summer and Hotter in winter….
Rainfall for Townsville for January was around 200mm below average.
painmaster said:
painmaster said:
Townsville’s mean max for Jan was 32.9º which is 1.5º above the Jan average…
and the mean low was 26.3º which was 2º above….
so the locals have been right when they say it has been a hot start to the year, but then they say that me coming from Moresby would be used to it, but I interject by saying that Moresby being 10º closer to the equator doesn’t have such variations in weather that Townsville does. Moresby is probably cooler in Summer and Hotter in winter….
Rainfall for Townsville for January was around 200mm below average.
oh and humidity at 9am and 3pm was around 10% lower than average.
painmaster said:
Very blue sky out there this morn’. Another hot day with damp soil means my grass is growing faster than I can cut it… well not quite.
The council has been across the way…they used to do my footpath as well until I asked them not to…then we got talking about labradors…
painmaster said:
Townsville’s mean max for Jan was 32.9º which is 1.5º above the Jan average…
So they had some very cool days as well?
We had one very cold minimum, 18.9C, which would have been the morning I went looking for my cotton jumper…
Supposedly only 115.6 mm of rainfall…but that’s the airport, we received more in town…it’s been very patchy…about 3 inches fell about 10 miles away last Tuesday, hardly registered on the airport guage…just a few drops in town…
Waiting for the 9 o’clock breeze…
Dinetta said:
Waiting for the 9 o’clock breeze…
Did you know that you are lucky to be able to predict such things?
It hasn’t turned up yet…in Emerald it was the 8 o’clock breeze and nearly always on time…
You know why they call them the x o’clock breezes, don’t you?
Got down to 20C this AM, combined with a little southerly it meant I had to put a light cotton jumper on for, oh, one hour?
Dinetta said:
Waiting for the 9 o’clock breeze…
I want my winter!!!!
Chilli last night: 18.4…brrr
Dinetta said:
Chilli last night: 18.4…brrr
And not 30 seconds ago I was commenting to Mr buffy that we are in for some hot nights at 19 over the weekend. That will be light t-shirt and light sheet. No blankets required.
P didn’t travel to Yeppoon last night as there is no cover for his car at his Mum and Dad’s place…they live in a brick pile built to beyond cyclonic standards (nah, maybe not but it sure is solidly built) and there is undercover parking for their two cars, however visitors have to take their chances with the elements…
Miss Red has been missing out on work because the coffee shop she’s at has been closed due to lack of custom the last few days…
Dinetta said:
P didn’t travel to Yeppoon last night as there is no cover for his car at his Mum and Dad’s place…they live in a brick pile built to beyond cyclonic standards (nah, maybe not but it sure is solidly built) and there is undercover parking for their two cars, however visitors have to take their chances with the elements…Miss Red has been missing out on work because the coffee shop she’s at has been closed due to lack of custom the last few days…
Hope they survive okay. Looks very wet down there!
painmaster said:
Hope they survive okay. Looks very wet down there!
Comment from Miss Red:
“Extra dry and chilled food, extra water and drinks, vodka in the fridge for when it’s all over and my sister and some friends to pass the time with.. As set as I’ll ever be for this cyclone!!”
Fashionista sister’s cat has been supervising the Cyclone Watch…
Ragamuffin and her BF (boyfriend) are in Mexico, and they agree (he lived through Yasi, I think) they’d rather cope with a cyclone than an earthquake…she reckons when you’re on the 11th floor and there’s a 6.2 nearby, there’s no time to think, really…
Only flooffy clods here and a bit of a fresh breeze…
Dinetta said:
Ragamuffin and her BF (boyfriend) are in Mexico, and they agree (he lived through Yasi, I think) they’d rather cope with a cyclone than an earthquake…she reckons when you’re on the 11th floor and there’s a 6.2 nearby, there’s no time to think, really…Only flooffy clods here and a bit of a fresh breeze…
well my family in NZ reckon’ they couldn’t stand the suspense of a cyclone slowly coming to destroy your home. They would prefer an earthquake because it is all over before you can think. Speaking of which, 4 years to the day of the big Christchurch earthquake, the insurance company has finally let builders onto their home.
painmaster said:
well my family in NZ reckon’ they couldn’t stand the suspense of a cyclone slowly coming to destroy your home. They would prefer an earthquake because it is all over before you can think. Speaking of which, 4 years to the day of the big Christchurch earthquake, the insurance company has finally let builders onto their home.
Yes but if you grow up with cyclones the “suspense” can be turned into constructive activity, getting ready to survive…
I see somewhere that the roof has peeled off the Yeppoon SLC, and RockVegas is about to score a direct hit…
The 2-tonne sandbags, placed tractor, have been washed away along with parts of a Keppel Island beach…
Muggy today…
Dinetta said:
Muggy today…
no mugg much here 37% isn’t too bad really @ 31.7°C might get a bit more difficult if we reach forecast 35°C.
Oh dear, the plants out there are flagging. Thirty nine degrees and 11% humidity. It’s just draining the moisture out of them. Big watering tonight, because tomorrow is supposed to be the same.
buffy said:
Oh dear, the plants out there are flagging. Thirty nine degrees and 11% humidity. It’s just draining the moisture out of them. Big watering tonight, because tomorrow is supposed to be the same.
Can you get shade over them, and a drip watering to their roots now?
Just been out and watered the ones now in the shade. I don’t water over the top….well, just a bit. Mostly I direct the water to the base of the plant.
I’ll have to wait until about 7.00pm to do the other beds as the sun is still on them and I’ll only burn their leaves if I water now.
37.5C at 17:00 hours…I thought it was a bit hot, and the chooks did not want to go to bed…I gave them some semi-frozen watermelon at about 16:00 hours…they much prefer the fully frozen I think…34.2C now so the temp is dropping, hope that 9 o’clock breeze turns up or it will be a long night…
POssible storms tomorrow, “they” say…
I’ve got a headache so I reckon there’s one around “they” don’t know about…
Got up to 35ºC here today and with the humidity at 50%, it was rather nasty.
(rarely got this warm in Moresby… Lae yes, but not in Pom)
Local BoM radar is out…again…however I fear it’s to do with the transmissions as our texting is skew whiff…won’t send , “try again”, then the message is received 2 or 3 times…but at least we can text…
BoM back on…Emerald Q was hot today, 40 C and it’s 34C still…
We got to 36 today. Only didn’t get to 40 because there was a bit of cloud cover. Now back down to 28. Still too hot to open up the house though. It will have to get down to around 22 before we do that.
Hmmm…my house open all day…every window, every door…open to catch any breeze…but I have heard of folk who shut up the house to keep the heat out…
28C now and the breeze is cool…
Dinetta said:
Hmmm…my house open all day…every window, every door…open to catch any breeze…but I have heard of folk who shut up the house to keep the heat out…
This is because the any breeze, happens to that of a fan forced oven. This why the house is shut.
We try to catch the overnight cool and trap it in the house. Today we had to shut up around 8.00am because it had got hotter outside than inside by then. So we’ve had the aircon on but only the three in use rooms open to it. This way we can keep it down to around 25 inside all day.
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Hmmm…my house open all day…every window, every door…open to catch any breeze…but I have heard of folk who shut up the house to keep the heat out…
This is because the any breeze, happens to that of a fan forced oven. This why the house is shut.
Amazing…
buffy said:
We try to catch the overnight cool and trap it in the house. Today we had to shut up around 8.00am because it had got hotter outside than inside by then. So we’ve had the aircon on but only the three in use rooms open to it. This way we can keep it down to around 25 inside all day.
Different style of housing, I suppose…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Hmmm…my house open all day…every window, every door…open to catch any breeze…but I have heard of folk who shut up the house to keep the heat out…
This is because the any breeze, happens to that of a fan forced oven. This why the house is shut.
Amazing…
I spent almost five months up around the Northern Rivers and everyone talked of how hot and humid the weather was.. A terrible day, how are you coping with the heat?. I simply said, If you grew up in five thousand acres of desert filled with rice paddy on 48 degree days, then this weather is heaven.
Dinetta said:
buffy said:We try to catch the overnight cool and trap it in the house. Today we had to shut up around 8.00am because it had got hotter outside than inside by then. So we’ve had the aircon on but only the three in use rooms open to it. This way we can keep it down to around 25 inside all day.
Different style of housing, I suppose…
The temp got down to 24C at 06:00, with relative humidity of 90%…
I got to sleep at about 22:00 last night, up at 08:30 this AM and feel rotten…
RoughBarked I don’t think I could survive 48C temperatures…is this in the shade or were you working in it in the rice paddies?
Dinetta said:
The temp got down to 24C at 06:00, with relative humidity of 90%…I got to sleep at about 22:00 last night, up at 08:30 this AM and feel rotten…
RoughBarked I don’t think I could survive 48C temperatures…is this in the shade or were you working in it in the rice paddies?
In the sun it is hotter and there is no shade in a rice paddock.
Am turning on the airconditioner in the study before it gets much hotter, I think I will need a refuge today…
Barely made it to 35C today, feels cooler and the breezes were nice…dogs still hogging the airconditioned study…
It got all the way down to 22C last night but I still had the fan going and it still felt hot…the breeze picked up about 6 – 7 am…
There’s a monsoonal trough off the Qld coast and a low trough through Central Australia…a High in between and this is probably what’s giving us our hot days and sunny weather…
Correction: that inland trough curves from north eastern NT through SW Qld (looks like about Charleville area?) and through the middle of NSW…
Some scary stuff in the BOM forecasts next few days.
dv said:
Some scary stuff in the BOM forecasts next few days.
and it can only get worse. For quite some time yet.