Weather where you are?

Fires in Madeira this Christmas/new year which is pretty unusual for this time of year. We didn?t experience any rain in the two weeks, when we would normally expect at least a few wet days.
 
A couple of years back Indonesia had crazy fires as well, a mate who spent his life as a pro firey volunteered to help organise the locals around there Oragatan area as the fires were threatening their habitat. This is so tough on the wildlife, with diminished areas and huge pressures without major fires
 
forecast is for the temperature to hit minus 41 Celsius here overnight tonight. It is so cold out everything is kind of crunchy, extreme cold alerts issued by the weather networks, warnings as to how fast exposed flesh will freeze, etc. Happens every year around this time, every year it is yet another shock at how extreme this weather is. I filled the bird feeder to the top again tonight with high energy cracked sunflower seeds, hordes of birds flocking to the feeder, don't know how they survive these temperatures....

Paul LeClair
 
chrisk said:
Pffftt. He wouldn't work in an Iron Lung.
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Actually I reckon he quite likes a bit of hard work. Good luck to him shoving the whole royal thing (he's gonna need it - the paaprazz will absolutely LOVE this - even after what they did to his mum!). Deep down he obviously believes it's a toss, same as we all do.
 
A C-130- Hercules leased from Coulson Aviation in Canada has crashed whilst bombing fires in New South Wales Australia, the crew of three were killed. :'(
 
Its just tragic, for pilots to have to come all this way and then be killed fighting our fires is just so sad.


 
Legs said:
A C-130- Hercules leased from Coulson Aviation in Canada has crashed whilst bombing fires in New South Wales Australia, the crew of three were killed. :'(
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Very tragic ........ horrible winds and a duststorm rolled in this morning. We parked all the aircraft based out of Cooma and were waiting for the winds to let up. Then we heard they had launched the air tanker ..... without a bird dog as it was too windy and the bird dog wouldn't fly in these conditions. We thought they were crazy ....... turns out it was worse than crazy.
 
Jim: Have you "reveled" to our Aussie Mates what "The crack of 90" is ?

I do need a copilot next week.
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Sign him up man!

Right now it's 0C for late January on the North Shore where normally should be -20C - Can't complain ;o)

Harry's a Greener - Bet he will go for it. Call him Jim, considering he's a qualified military trained helicopter pilot !

This is what Canada is all about and you are in the pilot seat.
 
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