Weather where you are?

You did the right thing leaving early when it gets that bad nothing except major weather changes can stop it. Good luck mate.
 
6 38 am local, Pacific. Home survived the night. Fires on ridge 1 1/2 - 2 miles East. Bulldozers grouped at fire station 1/2 mile away ready to go to work as needed. As someone noted on here, it's as much about the wind as anything else. Mercifully they were not strong overnight. Woke up at 4 am with the thought that I had left Italian registration papers for one of the bikes that is not yet registered but I just checked and they are in my backpack with passports. Phew.
 
sonomalaverda said:
Fires on ridge 1 1/2 - 2 miles East. Bulldozers grouped at fire station 1/2 mile away ready to go to work as needed. As someone noted on here, it's as much about the wind as anything else. Mercifully they were not strong overnight.
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The dozer guard is brutal to the environment if you go by modern regulations ...... but pretty much the most effective way to stop a fire. The air tankers and helicopters are great if it's not windy but when it's rockin' and rollin' in the wind then the smoke lays down on the head of the fire so not much chance of direct attack there ...... and the wind makes the fire intensity pretty much unstoppable. Back fires can work but not when it is windy. It is a tough situation and at this point the best hope is Tanker 1 ...... also known as Mother Nature or aka RAIN. Doesn't look like much chance of that in the next week.

Hoping all is okay for you ....... the whole situation sucks.
 
Apparently we have an 'Ex' Hurricane on the way to the UK.
I bet old Fish Face is making sure it isn't called  hurricane either! (UK centric comment about a much maligned weather forecaster).
 
SimonR501 said:
I bet old Fish Face is making sure it isn't called  hurricane either!
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Is this the gentleman in question?

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helicopterjim said:
Is this the gentleman in question?
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Yes! 
In 1987 he dismissed a viewers concern about a hurricane being on the way and predicted a bit of rain and wind. There was some serious devastation!

The town of Sevenoaks became Oneoaks overnight.

He never lived that one down!
 
First snowfall of the season here in "Winterpeg" as it is often called (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). It wont stay, and forecast is for mid to high teens C this week. I think this is the first year since 1982 I did not ride a Laverda. I am down to just the Corsa in the Laverda stable, and the restoration is taking longer to complete than it should based on unforseen/unrelated circumstances.  Had some good rides and a  nice 4 day trip on my Tupperware 1000 (Suzuki Vstrom 1000) though and looks like another ride or two will happen. November is coming....a month I detest...too cold for motorcycles and not enough snow for snowmobiles. Weatherwise we had a relatively quiet forest fire season locally, though a few northern communities (fly in only) had to be evacuated for a couple of weeks due to smoke from fires. Hopefully the California ones get contained soon. We had no serious spring flooding and no tornados. Farmers had a bumper crop based on excellent weather.  Likely all this good weather will mean a cold snowy winter!
 
Since Wednesday last week we have been under mandatory evacuation and our road closed to only emergency traffic. At 03h00 on Saturday the house 2 lots over ( Grant, less than 100 yards from where you slept .....) was burned to the ground by a flying ember from the fire line 1 1/2 miles away. Evac lifted earlier today so we will go home tomorrow. Expecting soot and smoke and wind damage but we are so much more fortunate than many others hit by this spate of Northern California fires.

We even had a fire crew from Australia come all the way over here and help. Effing amazing and so appreciated by everyone here. World class mates, world class effort.

Many thanks for all the comments on the forum and the support. As well as knowing more now about how fires are fought than I ever imagined I would, I am truly humbled by the selflessness of firefighters and how communities close and far can come together and help one another

First job is to clean up the home and garden, then see who else needs help, then take the bikes out for a ride.

ALEX
 
What a lot don't realise is that Volunteer Fire Fighter standing at your place is probably a local whos own house is also threatened at the same time. They do great work.
 
Autumn changed to winter in one night, snow everywhere and going to freeze.

Some spoke work with my 1984 finnish 50cc trial bike.
I suppose to assemble the wheels now with spike tyres,
no need to put the standard trial tyres back first.
 
32 in Adelaide today, winds gusting to 100kph and dry lightning strikes predicted. First Total Fire Ban of the season >:(
 
Legs said:
32 in Adelaide today, winds gusting to 100kph and dry lightning strikes predicted. First Total Fire Ban of the season >:(
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Australia, that's interesting country, never been there. I may even have relatives there since my great-grandfather lived there between world wars, no idea who they might be if they exist.

I have wondered a couple of things since I was on primary school and never got an answer to them.

I guess your months are named similar to all english speaking countries (names may have no more detailed meaning), in finnish some months are named according to what happens in that time of year and therefore the names would actually sound funny south from the equator. For example "June" is called "Summer month" in finnish.

Is the season there called summer what is on about December to February and is it called winter about from June to August?

Does the father christmas come on December and wears a t-shirt, shorts and sunglasses there? :)
 
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