Weather where you are?

Sheer luxury! Thirty five and windy in the Adelaide Hills. wat outside brush-cutting a fire break when the whirly bit on the Stihl disentigrated. Off to Balhannah to get a new one :(
 
I don't know if it is us getting older or the weather being more extreme but heat never worried me much but these days you can get beyond the hydration curve so easily and once it starts you go down fast and it can kill or damage you for life. I am seriously thinking chilled camelback in the tank bag this year, never left home without one offroad but I think its time for the road bike now as well. Did some Tassie days without carrying and regretted it especially where we did that bushwalk with riding gear on.
 
You need one of those posters firies have on their dunny doors, helps you monitor your piss colour and hydrate to suit.
 
Looks like some areas of the South Island will be in full on drought before Christmas...
Wettish spring, I've mowed the lawns (ha) twice now and they're browning off already. Usually not till mid December.

If we don't get rain, this summer may be worse than last - where the fire danger got higher here than we've ever seen it.
 
31c and breezy on Magnetic Island, been here for 4 days awaiting machine parts from Sydney.... it's pretty tough to take, snorkelling on a reef, did a fishing charter, drank lots of wine and beer, and sit here at an outside bar waiting for my lunch to be put in front of me, while downing Schooners.

Once I've had lunch, I'll head back to my villa pool and perv... oversee the female swimmers... It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.  :P
 
A rainy day in Tasmania:

I was intending to ride to the Ross Motorcycle Show on Sunday (Tassie midlands - about 150 km away). It's an annual event and I usually ride one of my bikes there. The previous evening I prepped the Benelli ready to go - checked battery, oil, tyres, fuel, etc. But when the time came to set off in the morning, it was raining. Being a wimp I took the car instead. I figured if I was driving the car anyway, I might as well hitch the empty bike trailer in case some unfortunate soul on his old classic clunker breaks down on the side of the road and needs rescuing.

It's the one day in the year when old buggers drag rusty, wheezing old things like BSA slopers and flat tank Nortons out of the shed and take them to the show. A lot go on trailers or in vans, but there are a few purists who actually ride their old rattlers. Pretty much every year I see some old contraption that's died on the side of the road, with the rider standing next to it looking dejected.  I'm usually on a bike myself so can't offer much more than moral support.

This year it would be different. I had the means to scoop them up off the side of the road and transport them and their ailing motorcycle back home.

As it happened, the little bit of rain we had in the morning held off for most of the day so the show itself was not disrupted. But it turned into a torrential downpour later in the afternoon when people were on the road home. There was about 10 minutes when I could hardly see the road in front of me with the wipers going on high speed. Traffic on the highway slowed down to about 50kph because of the poor visibility. The rain was heavy enough to knock birds out of the sky.

Just as I was wondering how much water you need to drown Lucas electrics, I received a phone call from a mate to tell me that some other bloke's bike had conked out. He gave me the location and when I got there, sure enough it turned to be a bike fitted with Lucas (Prince of Darkness) electrics - a Silver Jubilee Bonneville with its electrical system totally non-functional. To be fair, I don't know whether it was actually rain-related or some other issue. Nobody seemed keen to perform detailed diagnostics in the pouring rain, so we just loaded the bike on the trailer and got going ASAP.

His mates on a Brough Superior, a Vincent Rapide and a Triumph Hurricane made it home OK.

It was an interesting day.
 

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Bloody hell, not yet summer in Adelaide and the temp is 38 with high humidity, feel as if I'm in the Northern Territory!
 
We mexicans (Victorians, for those who are from other than Oz  8)  ) have been given our very own Weather thread by Marty in Sydney - dire forecasts of Noah-like floods!!  :o :o :o :o
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
We mexicans (Victorians, for those who are from other than Oz  8)  ) have been given our very own Weather thread by Marty in Sydney - dire forecasts of Noah-like floods!!  :o :o :o :o
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Every time it rains now it's a "weather event" and apparently the end of the world ::)

Mind you, Melbourne needs to do something about that drainage, seems to flood on a sun shower :o
 
Shajota said:
Mind you, Melbourne needs to do something about that drainage, seems to flood on a sun shower :o
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They tried that many many years ago. Now, what were Melbournes southern suburbs, are known as Tasmania.

Looking at the radar for said southern suburbs, looks like Tassie is about to sink.
 
chrisk said:
Looking at the radar for said southern suburbs, looks like Tassie is about to sink.
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Yes, it's been a bit soggy here since last weekend. But we've had a long dry spell so anyone with a dam or water tank will be happy. The frog pond in the reserve next door to my house has been dry for a couple of years, so maybe this will put a smile on the frogs' faces too.
 
With reference to my previous post about the poor frogs having no water in their pond, you can all stop worrying.

The recent rains have delivered an abundance. When I go outside in the evenings now, all I can hear is a gazillion frogs happily croaking away. It's nice to hear them again after a couple of years of silence. I presume they survive the dry periods by burrowing into the mud at the bottom of the pond and going into hibernation.
 

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Dellortoman said:
With reference to my previous post about the poor frogs having no water in their pond, you can all stop worrying.

The recent rains have delivered an abundance. When I go outside in the evenings now, all I can hear is a gazillion frogs happily croaking away. It's nice to hear them again after a couple of years of silence. I presume they survive the dry periods by burrowing into the mud at the bottom of the pond and going into hibernation.
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Yes.

You are partially correct.

Frogs hibernate to escape the freezing temperatures of winter. Their heartbeats and breathing slow, their body temperature drops to nearly match the outside temperature, and they pass the time in a state of dormancy or torpor. Aquatic frogs hibernate under water and take in oxygen from the water through their skin. They spend most of the winter lying on top of the bottom's mud or partially buried in mud, regurgitating their last meal and consuming it again.

You see Cam, it's the difference between a Frogologist and a Mechanical Engineer .......... Frogologist's don't consider reciprocating mass, just regurgitating mess.
On the other hand, a Spring Peeper Frog ............. well that's another story.
 
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