Here in sunny Shellharbour, today, 20/11/2015, I’ve been waiting for the hot westerly to come.

Around 4 pm, my thermometer (mercury) read 29 C in the shade.
Then the westerly hit. By around 5pm, the thermometer hit 37 C.

Obviously the westerly came to visit, but by about 5.30 pm the expected southerly came, & within ½ an hour the thermometer read 28 C.

Luckily, my most detested weather event, hot westerly’s, didn’t hang around for very long.

It will only get cooler here, in sunny Shellharbour, from now at least till the sun next rises.

I thought I would share this experience with my friends here at the Holiday Resort.

Perhaps you have an exciting weather event you would like to share?

Transport by Zeppelin.

When a mini tornado or something like that wrecked my parents house when it was a teenager. Blew the caravan through a wall, picked up the trampoline mangling it, blew the dog kennel through my brothers bedroom window and tore large amounts of tiles off the roof. Houses on either side barely touched

When I were lad I loved “after the storm”
Afternoon storms would build up and crash down with a ferocity and then after the storm the sun would come out again with a softness, the storm had quenched the days simmering heat and now there was a cool tranquil afterglow.

Been nice cool and cloudy all day today with a little bit of rain that put some water into the tank that I am trying to empty.

Peak Warming Man said:

When I were lad I loved “after the storm”
Afternoon storms would build up and crash down with a ferocity and then after the storm the sun would come out again with a softness, the storm had quenched the days simmering heat and now there was a cool tranquil afterglow.

Storms themselves are always fantastic to watch and hear

AwesomeO said:

Been nice cool and cloudy all day today with a little bit of rain that put some water into the tank that I am trying to empty.

Had a brief bit of thunder here and an all too brief heavy shower. But there may be more this evening.

Bubblecar said:

AwesomeO said:

Been nice cool and cloudy all day today with a little bit of rain that put some water into the tank that I am trying to empty.

Had a brief bit of thunder here and an all too brief heavy shower. But there may be more this evening.

One good thing is I have learnt how much water a tank really contains. I was a bit stingy with watering times previously, now I know that with a quarter of a tank and that sort of pressure, you can easily do three full days and not drop it too much. Moreover a decent rain fills a tank very quickly. So next summer the plants will be much more generously treated.

I was staying with my grandparents

and our house got hit by lightning

eerie intense blue white light, shook the house

it took out half the wiring

left a burn mark on the guttering

saw an interesting shelve cloud once

bit hard to describe

blue sky on one side, dark shelve cloud on the other side

the edge of the shelve cloud was like a vertical sine wave, very evenly spaced

stretching from horizon to horizon

Car’s thermometer read 49C early this afternoon. Probably read 50 before that, but it’s always reads a little hotter after sitting outside. By the time I got to my destination, it read 47, but was probably 43 or so.

i’ve often considered provoking a lightning strike using a rocket and trailing wire but james may has already tried, its virtually impossible unless you are in some zone where lightning is happening on a regular basis

Speedy said:

Car’s thermometer read 49C early this afternoon. Probably read 50 before that, but it’s always reads a little hotter after sitting outside. By the time I got to my destination, it read 47, but was probably 43 or so.

That’s pretty hot.
It’s because the ASIO headquarters are made of glass.

I’ve seen all of the above apart from wookie’s bit.

Peak Warming Man said:

Speedy said:

Car’s thermometer read 49C early this afternoon. Probably read 50 before that, but it’s always reads a little hotter after sitting outside. By the time I got to my destination, it read 47, but was probably 43 or so.

That’s pretty hot.
It’s because the ASIO headquarters are made of glass.

air con bill must be enormous

It’s because the ASIO headquarters are made of glass.

roughbarked said:

I’ve seen all of the above apart from wookie’s bit.

i’m saying that a fool would make the building of the secret police from glass

as it is the thing is only 300 million shy of the money wasted on seasprite

wookiemeister said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Speedy said:

Car’s thermometer read 49C early this afternoon. Probably read 50 before that, but it’s always reads a little hotter after sitting outside. By the time I got to my destination, it read 47, but was probably 43 or so.

That’s pretty hot.
It’s because the ASIO headquarters are made of glass.

air con bill must be enormous

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

double glazed, triple glazed etc

Would you rather ASIO headquarters to be a giant concrete block or even underground surrounded by a enormous concrete block

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

special glass has been around for decades.

ChrispenEvan said:

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

special glass has been around for decades.

yes, there would be many different types now

CrazyNeutrino said:

ChrispenEvan said:

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

special glass has been around for decades.

yes, there would be many different types now

Unfortunately, as attested by some Wookie links, the ASIO building is clad in some very bog-standard glass that shatters easily. This however, in know way gives any indication of the veracity of other Wookie proclamations.

Witty Rejoinder said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

ChrispenEvan said:

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

special glass has been around for decades.

yes, there would be many different types now

Unfortunately, as attested by some Wookie links, the ASIO building is clad in some very bog-standard glass that shatters easily. This however, in know way gives any indication of the veracity of other Wookie proclamations.

the glass has already been falling off that building – do some research

miltary rorts are part of australian history

the fort on bare island in sydney was cobbled together by a shoddy contractor (probably someones mate)

CrazyNeutrino said:

wookiemeister said:

Peak Warming Man said:

That’s pretty hot.
It’s because the ASIO headquarters are made of glass.

air con bill must be enormous

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

double glazed, triple glazed etc

any light energy falling through the glass will be converted to heat

appox 50% of the sun’s energy is visible light, the other half heat

if you’ve got say 1KW m2 of energy falling through a window you’ll need to remove at least 500W of that energy depending on the sunlit area

even direct light heats allows heat to penetrate

i can feel windows in the shade all day being hot to the touch

CrazyNeutrino said:

Would you rather ASIO headquarters to be a giant concrete block or even underground surrounded by a enormous concrete block

ChrispenEvan said:

aren’t there different types of glass now that don’t let so much heat/light through

special glass has been around for decades.

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-low-e-heat-reflective-windows-work.html

looking at the graph at the bottom its only 4 times better than plain old glass