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Well, in contrast to the above reports, we have balmy conditions here and a nice new moon. My mate reckons perfect conditions (after some nice fresh flushing rain) for getting a mud crab so wants me to get the tinny going. After talking tactics on a Sunday arvo, took this pic from my back steps, I thought the detail came up rather well:unsure:
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Shajota said:
Well, in contrast to the above reports, we have balmy conditions here and a nice new moon. My mate reckons perfect conditions (after some nice fresh flushing rain) for getting a mud crab so wants me to get the tinny going.
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Swarm of mysterious worms filled with 'green goo' baffles fisho dad and daughter

Robert Norris and his 17-year-old daughter were looking for mud crabs in a Queensland creek when they found themselves witnessing something they did not expect.
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Paul LeClair said:
Sunday morning, January 14, 2024. Another "Extreme Weather Alert", minus 35 to minus 45 Celsius this morning, windchills to minus 55 Celsius or colder.....

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About 30 years ago when I was on the way to visit my parents in Montana where it was -55 degrees Fahrenheit / -48 Celsius. On the way there in northern Idaho while putting gas in my car a guy rides in on a 1980's Yamaha 750 V twin at -27 degrees Fahrenheit / -32 Celsius. It was his only transportation as his wife was in Utah to visit relatives with their only car and went in to labor. So he needed to get to Utah ASAP. He only needed to go about another 5 miles where a friend with a car would take him the rest of the way. He probably had on every piece of clothing he owned and looked like the Michelin man. He had probably ridden about 20 miles in this temperature.

I got back in my car and turned the heater up as high as it would go!
 
1200ts said:
About 30 years ago when I was on the way to visit my parents in Montana where it was -55 degrees Fahrenheit / -48 Celsius. On the way there in northern Idaho while putting gas in my car a guy rides in on a 1980's Yamaha 750 V twin at -27 degrees Fahrenheit / -32 Celsius. It was his only transportation as his wife was in Utah to visit relatives with their only car and went in to labor. So he needed to get to Utah ASAP. He only needed to go about another 5 miles where a friend with a car would take him the rest of the way. He probably had on every piece of clothing he owned and looked like the Michelin man. He had probably ridden about 20 miles in this temperature.

I got back in my car and turned the heater up as high as it would go!
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I’m confused, when we in the colonies, moved from F to C when I was a boy, the “general” conversion was, say 30C add 30 = 60F…. 39C add 30 = 69F

So minus 55F doesn’t equal minus to 48C on the above approximation.

Now don’t tell me my Science teacher at school was full of shit!
 
Last Brass Monkey Ride I had a not-very-pleasant catch-up ride after spending a few hours fixing a blown-out front tyre so I was following Will in his car and trailer on a fast cooling night, this was mid-winter for approx 130ks wearing day-temperature suited riding gear and a poorly aimed headlight. I was using his Car lights to see so didn't want to pull over to put on more layers, I just wanted to get it over and thought it would be ok, not too smart. I was fast getting very cold and was really happy to get there in one piece. In the open straight bits on the top of the big hills heading to Walcha, we were cruising at 120kph. I don't know what that temperature and wind chill had gotten down to but it was a pretty bad experience. So the next day at breakfast the lady Pub owner announced it had got down to - 11c later that night so it must have been at or below 0c during that trip.
 
Online converters, they have them for everything including languages. The currency ones are not that accurate in the real world
 
chrisk said:
I’m confused, when we in the colonies, moved from F to C when I was a boy, the “general” conversion was, say 30C add 30 = 60F…. 39C add 30 = 69F

So minus 55F doesn’t equal minus to 48C on the above approximation.

Now don’t tell me my Science teacher at school was full of shit!
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All in the maths Chris. This is probably easiest explanation I have seen...........(Note key crossover point -40f = -40c!!)
Fahrenheit degrees are smaller, so as you change temperature in any direction, the absolute value of your temperature value “grows” faster in the Fahrenheit scale (you need more of these smaller units to fit into the same temperature interval).
Normally the crossover point would be at 0, but because the two scales don’t have the same zero point (0 C = 32 F) the crossover point is instead at -40. I.e. -40 C and -40 F are the same physical temperature.
So below -40 C or above 0 C, the Fahrenheit temperature will always be larger in absolute value (a bigger number, ignoring the minus sign if there is one).
 
Shajota said:
All in the maths Chris. This is probably easiest explanation I have seen...........(Note key crossover point -40f = -40c!!)
Fahrenheit degrees are smaller, so as you change temperature in any direction, the absolute value of your temperature value “grows” faster in the Fahrenheit scale (you need more of these smaller units to fit into the same temperature interval).
Normally the crossover point would be at 0, but because the two scales don’t have the same zero point (0 C = 32 F) the crossover point is instead at -40. I.e. -40 C and -40 F are the same physical temperature.
So below -40 C or above 0 C, the Fahrenheit temperature will always be larger in absolute value (a bigger number, ignoring the minus sign if there is one).
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Maybe we could make it sound better using Kelvin? Minus 40c is 233 Kelvin.
 
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