Weather where you are?

Minus -4C at the house, but nowhere near as much snow as Jo or Piet have had and I live in the hill country.
Watched the news with all the traffic jams on the Autobahns, some several K's long, and wondered how the drivers in the golf carts would cope with the cold once the batteries went dead. Does someone with a gas or diesel powered generator (very eco!) charge them back up?
 
Gerald said:
Minus -4C at the house, but nowhere near as much snow as Jo or Piet have had and I live in the hill country.
Watched the news with all the traffic jams on the Autobahns, some several K's long, and wondered how the drivers in the golf carts would cope with the cold once the batteries went dead. Does someone with a gas or diesel powered generator (very eco!) charge them back up?
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I would just say, come warm your hands on my stack, baby
 

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Business trip DC this week... -4C with maybe 5cm of snow and the city grinds to a halt. Felt positively balmy after leaving -40 in Calgary last weekend. The Dulles airport doesn't mess around with snow clearing... check out the throw reach on this baby
 

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Only indirectly weather related, but how is the fire season going in Australia this year? We haven’t seen much coverage so far, but that doesn’t really mean anything.
 
The only thing certain about the weather is uncertainty. Western Oz copped a hiding but thankfully not huge house damage numbers but so far the predicted extreme heat hasn't arrived in the east. It was supposed to be hell on wheels for months.The latest never heard before thing is what is called an Ocean Heat Wave, average sea temps off the east coast are high, resulting in more than average evaporation and rain plus crazy humidity. Today was supposed to be day 2 of a 40-plus heat wave. Until lunchtime it was cloudy and after lunch, it's now bloody hot and insanely humid. My go-to winge is wouldn't it be nice to get 2 days of pleasant weather in a row? BTW both my car and room AC are fucked, good timing or what
 
Alzero said:
Only indirectly weather related, but how is the fire season going in Australia this year? We haven’t seen much coverage so far, but that doesn’t really mean anything.
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Drove through the Pilliga today, I didn’t know it’d been cooked. Almost 100klm of burnt forest either side of the highway, who knows how far either side it went.

Not heavily populated, so no surprise it wasn’t wide public knowledge….. although the Pilliga Yowies would have been pissed off!

Meanwhile, another cyclone up north. Head down Shajota! Hope you’ve got plenty of dark beer stocked
 
Non-stop steady rain in Bright, Vic (surrounded by mountains) ... no sign of fires, and green grass everywhere I've been in the state this summer. Cycling today in warm gentle rain. This new Cat 2-3 up north will no doubt bring loads of rain behind it ... like the last one, only about a month ago!
 
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Non-stop steady rain in Bright, Vic (surrounded by mountains) ... no sign of fires, and green grass everywhere I've been in the state this summer. Cycling today in warm gentle rain. This new Cat 2-3 up north will no doubt bring loads of rain behind it ... like the last one, only about a month ago!
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My mate in Mission Beach said the cyclone was a fizzer.
 
chrisk said:
My mate in Mission Beach said the cyclone was a fizzer.
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Yep, overhyped and catastrophised ad nauseam even while it was a low.
Following on the radar it was evident it didn't have much structure and wouldn't build much power. Travelled to the coast and broke up extremely quickly. Couldn't understand how it got to cat 3 and I see now they are saying with further analysis will probably confirm it never did (of course away from the drooling media, who are aghast when a tree goes over)!!
Anyway, it is what it is - we live in a world where everything is dramatic and "unprecedented", we don't have summer anymore we have heat waves, a decent storm becomes a rain bomb, they talk about weather up the "whole East Coast" completely ignoring the 2000kms+ north of the Qld SE corner, etc etc. Gives me the shits and doesn't help in the future when an area will get an actual severe cyclone..................
Apologies for the rant -
Away from all that, for those in Aus, happy Australia day, hope you can enjoy a quiet shandy somewhere. 🍻 (Stole this pic from somewhere, quite like it!!)
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In my day it was always referred to as The Pilliga Scrub, or that's what the locals called it. My Great Uncle cut Railway Sleepers in there since returning from WW2.
 
Vegetation is a bit like animals (and people :eek:). The lovely looking (to humans) stuff is generally prized and the less pretty is not really worried about. There are big campaign here now regarding swampland and old growth disorganised forest, well after the eight ball on those.
 
Been a few fires my side of the South Island already. While the west coast - the side facing australia - has had rather a lot of rain
Looks like it's going to be a hot dry summer locally with probably more fires than usual.
Pleased I'm no longer living out in the country. That area is overdue for a fire.
 
For January 26th we should be between -10C and -20C here on the North Shore of Lake Huron for the next week or 2 but it's presently +5C and what little snow we have is melting.

I always said the North Shore of Lake Huron has the most moderate climate in Canada but this is unusual.
 
Allot of Hi-Power Snow Machines in front yards for Sale here on the North Shore of Lake Huron - No Body is buying them - Why NO SNOW.
 
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