Weather where you are?

helicopterjim said:
............ and here I thought you were dialectic ....... or is that dianetic?
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For a minute I thought you meant "Dalek: An emotionless "master race" utterly without
pity (Read: pitude), compassion or remorse ..............
 
Australia the lucky country  :o
Peregian (Persian? FFS ABC!) Springs, QLD, last Monday night during strong winds and ferocious bushfires that created a hell of a burning ember attack.
https://youtu.be/SyRVcNYBbLU
Lucky to have all the emergency response teams and police service that take action and work together.
No lives were lost. And only one residential house lost! WTF! Yes, only one house. Lucky ay.
We are truly grateful to have these people that are always willing to selflessly put themselves at risk to help others.
Grazie Mille  (notworthy)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-11/queensland-bushfire-police-video/11502162
 
Yep, reckon this bushfire season will be another challenge for all the firies in this sunburnt country. Hopefully there will be no casualties.

The loss of Binna Burra Lodge up in the Lamington National Park has been a great tragedy.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-11/queensland-bushfire-emergency-binnna-burra-lodge-gold-coast-fire/11499472
The rainforest burns  >:D
 
The last time i saw footage of ember atack like that was canberra and they lost 400 houses then so luck last couple of days

 
Firies are truly courageous going into situations that are so potentially deadly. Fire season is looking very bloody scary this summer. Don?t believe in climate change? Don?t worry - you?ll warm to the idea!
 
No bushfires here in the Lombardia mountains between lake Idro and lake Iseo, just having a nice week at sunny 23 degrees doung some enduro/ trial rides with my tiny Beta Alp 200
Andre
 
early fall here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Last weekend it was mid twenties C, great rides both Saturday and Sunday. This current weekend, first snow of the year, been snowing for two days, bloody hell. Forecast for next week is for everything to melt and to go back to high teens C.

Our summer growing season is just too short. Lost lots of unripened tomatoes from my garden last night to the freezing temps and the snow.....

Paul LeClair
 
now the local news is on about a "historic snow storm", although most of the snow will likely be outside of Calgary, thankfully. Slightly depressing from a motorcyclists point of view, the riding season is clearly coming to an end for another year.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/winter-storm-could-bring-60plus-cm-of-snow-blizzard-like-conditions-possible/ar-AAHYWAX?li=AAqARMz

Paul LeClair
 
The way the weather gets reported was become pretty hysterical and not in a good way. We occasionally get these things called East Coast Lows in Sydney. That's a storm where it rains hard for a couple of days, it's not Armageddon. Its a storm, they happen. The problem is when really serious weather is predicted they have run out of hyperbole on typical weather and people stop paying attention.
 
Weather here is starting to show signs of summer being not far away. My fruit trees have finished blossoming and are now in leaf.
If I was a wealthy dude. I'd spend summers here in Tasmania and go to Queensland (or maybe the northern hemisphere) during our winter.
 
It's heating up in the bush, 29c today and a predicted 34c next weekend. Once it hits the mid-30s around here it will stay there and higher for the next 3 or 4 months. Still as dry as a dead dingos donger out here, touch of country flavour. And no rain in the foreseeable future, there are lots of towns with good-sized populations close to out of water. Talk of building more dams, very helpfull in 15 years. If it happens. Dryest habited continent on earth and getting dryer. Sure we can handle a population of 50 million, just don't use any water and thats fine.
 
I spent most of today slinging gear and cement to 9000' up on Mt. Waddington so they could build a remote camera system to watch the glaciers movement. Luckily it was only -6 and blowing 25 kts so having the door off for vertical reference meant I wasn't frozen to the core ........

.......... and it was cement. The water came up separately. Not sure how well it will set up at the -12 forecast for tonight.
 
helicopterjim said:
.......... and it was cement. The water came up separately. Not sure how well it will set up at the -12 forecast for tonight.
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We used insulated formwork and insulation blankets on concrete pours in Antarctica. The cement reaction is exothermic, so concrete makes its own heat. Insulation blankets keep the heat in and stop it freezing while there's still free water in the mix. Once all the water is used up in the reaction (after a few days), it's safe to remove the insulation.  If freezing of wet concrete does occur, it'll be fucked. They'll have to dig it out and re-do it.
 
Dellortoman said:
We used insulated formwork and insulation blankets on concrete pours in Antarctica. The cement reaction is exothermic, so concrete makes its own heat. Insulation blankets keep the heat in and stop it freezing while there's still free water in the mix. Once all the water is used up in the reaction (after a few days), it's safe to remove the insulation.  If freezing of wet concrete does occur, it'll be fucked. They'll have to dig it out and re-do it.
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Well ..... they did use warmish water ..... and yes, they put insulated blankets on. We will find out tomorrow morning.

If we have to redo it then that;s just another 2000 pounds of cement to fly up ........ I'm okay with that ....

I should have been done in warmer weather ...... and could have if it were not for government bureaucracy that takes months to get approval for a project and doesn't consider weather.
 
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