Weather where you are?

First snow storm of the season here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Electrical power outages, people forgetting how to drive, and generally complaining about the winter weather. Riding season likely done as forecast is temps around freezing mark for the next week. The good news I have been focused on putting my Corsa back together. Fired it up yesterday to check I hooked up all the wires right, sinc the carbs, etc. Only engine work was valve shiming. As per advice on the forum I turned it over many many many times with the starter (plugs out and grounded) to get the oil to the head, as engine had been out of frame, oil cooler disconnected etc.  A few more days to tidy up the wiring, fiddle with the mounting hardware for the Executive Bags (man those are some feat of Italian engineering!) and get the newly painted body work back on.   
 
G'day MotoJouni,
Yes, our months are the same as the rest of the english speaking world and summer runs from around the beginning of December until the end of March.
Stupid as it may sound, Father Christmas usually turns up sweating in full regalia while the rest of us stand around the barbie (BBQ) in t-shirts, stubbies (shorts) and thongs (flip-flops) sucking on a cold one or three (drinking beer).
Christmas down under, you wouldn't want to be anywhere else  :D :D.
 
Legs said:
G'day MotoJouni,
Yes, our months are the same as the rest of the english speaking world and summer runs from around the beginning of December until the end of March.
Stupid as it may sound, Father Christmas usually turns up sweating in full regalia while the rest of us stand around the barbie (BBQ) in t-shirts, stubbies (shorts) and thongs (flip-flops) sucking on a cold one or three (drinking beer).
Christmas down under, you wouldn't want to be anywhere else  :D :D.
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Thanks, that's interesting, this is really information almost no-one knows here  :)
Must experience that some day, Christmas down under, I think I still have some decades to do that :). I will tell greetings to father christmas how dork he is and buy him some t-shirts and stubbies since I live here quite near him and see him quite often anyway ;)
 
MotoJouni said:
Does the father christmas come on December and wears a t-shirt, shorts and sunglasses there? :)
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He does, but is usually on the piss by the time he gets here, lucky the reindeers can navigate him home. Not sure if being in charge of a sleigh is a DUI offence....
 
Out at 05:30 this morning clearing a rock slide in thunder, lightning and hale. Adelaide; beautiful one day, pissing down the next.
 
Legs said:
Christmas down under, you wouldn't want to be anywhere else  :D :D.
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Remember mum storing candles in the freezer before positioning them on our christmas trees.  Coming from cold and wintry Germany, she wasn't used to have them melt and droop because of the prevailing 100?+ (still ?F back then!) temps... :D

piet
 
Beautiful clears sky, not a breathe of wind -1 Celsius.
Fucking Gritters are out.
End of the Laverda season for me it seems. BUGGER!!!!
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Calgary weather temperatures drop 43 Celsius between October 28 and November 4, 2017, from 24 C to -26 C. Bloody hell

https://globalnews.ca/news/3844300/calgarys-temperature-dropped-43-degrees-in-1-week/?utm_source=GlobalCalgary&utm_medium=Facebook

my Triumph Spitfire car got caught out by the rapid weather shift, is now frozen into a snow drift......

Paul LeClair
 
Paul LeClair said:
my Triumph Spitfire car got caught out by the rapid weather shift, is now frozen into a snow drift......
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The Spitfire does that every year!
I would get a tree branch and give it a damn good thrashing until it bucks it's ideas up!  :D
 
sfcpiet said:
Coming from cold and wintry Germany, she wasn't used to have them melt and droop because of the prevailing 100?+ (still ?F back then!) temps... :D

piet
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I have the occasional droop issue after a few beers, but, there's no way I'm putting it in the freezer. :o
 
Little to do with weather I suspect, but this incident made me think of our forum mate helicopterjim who has been contributing to this thread with his accounts of flying around dousing forest fires.

A very experienced helicopter pilot crashed and was killed at Hobart Airport yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-08/rotorlift-roger-corbin-pilot-killed-in-hobart-airport-crash/9128098.

I didn't know him well but he was a member of the Italian Motorcycle Club of Tasmania (as am I). I'd met him a few times on ride days and had been to his bike shed a couple of times. Only man cave I ever saw that had a helicopter parked on a helipad outside! He was a nice bloke and a family man with a wife and 3 girls. Very sad.

No news on what caused the crash yet. He was training a student pilot at the time. I'm not an aviator, but it seems to me the problem with aircraft is that you can't pull over to the side of the road if something goes horribly wrong. They just fall out of the sky.

Jim, I hope all your landings are ones you can walk away from.
 
You could visit Tom Hatrick (Mikuni Oz, 93 Ingham Road, Townsville) and buy some Mikuni stuff.

Beautiful day here in Hobart. 28?C and sunny. Nice day for a ride but I'm otherwise committed - off to the blood bank shortly (making a deposit, not withdrawal).
 
Dellortoman said:
A very experienced helicopter pilot crashed and was killed at Hobart Airport yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-08/rotorlift-roger-corbin-pilot-killed-in-hobart-airport-crash/9128098.
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Bugger ...... checked with an Australian pilot friend of mine and he knows him from many fires ...... well known fellow. Very sad news.

Went to an end of season debrief meeting today held by the forest service here and for the crazy, hectic year we had there was only one accident in the district. The pilot was injured but not sure how he has fared since. Other than many incidents and several close calls ...... this is better than expected result for such an out of control season. No lives were lost due to any of the fires and for the millions of hectares burned the number of structures lost was in the hundreds ....... and over half were farm outbuidings ..... not homes.

Hope to heck that next year we have less fires and even less incidents .......
 
Blimey, I think I'm suffering from heat stroke. It's 30?C here with not a breath of wind or cloud in the sky. I was mucking about under the bonnet of my car trying to fix a little problem. Car was parked in the sun because it won't fit in my shed. It being a dark colour, the bonnet and mudguards (fenders) in the sun got too hot to touch and the sweat was getting in my eyes and dripping off my nose. I got a massive headache and started to feel a bit unsteady on my feet so retired indoors with a bottle of water and the air-con on full cooling. Feeling a little better but still got the headache. Reckon I'll have leave it until the evening when the car is in the shade to finish the job.
 
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