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Legs said:
Snow melt and potential flooding are not one of the things we encounter during a heat wave in Aus:oops:
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Local to me on the Canterbury Plains, it can be. If we get a warm wet spring, the snow melt from the Southern Alps which goes into the aquifers under the plains can raise the groundwater level to the point that it takes very little more to flood. The broad shallow rivers here don't cope well with a big surge after rain if the groundwater is already high.
October is the month we watch nervously for rain on top of the melt. We've been flooded four times in 20 years in Octobers.
 
Him and a lot of other people including our Aussie politicians, doesn’t make much difference now, Aussies still the odd man out when it comes to climate change.
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We're getting heavy frosts followed by nice days. Good enough yesterday PM that i painted a freshly blasted exhaust system outside in the sun.
A job i hate. I've been keeping it inside in the warm and dry till I had a good enough day to do it.
Same today. water line in was frozen till about 10AM, Very nice now, just waiting for the word to go and collect fork seals then it's another job I hate done.
 
Well, It is 92F here at the Rancho, we had 4.5 inches of rain over the weekend. Had two showers since and it feels like Houston humidity here. Usually 98 to 105F this time of year with no rain! Cows are fat, lots of grass for a change!!
 
SFCRex said:
Well, It is 92F here at the Rancho, we had 4.5 inches of rain over the weekend. Had two showers since and it feels like Houston humidity here. Usually 98 to 105F this time of year with no rain! Cows are fat, lots of grass for a change!!
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Yeah, spring and early summer we had grass up the wazoo (technical farming term) but mid-late summer turned to drought.
People were buying in stock to fatten on the promise of a good year. Wrong....
The seasons are out of wack.
And of course in the South Island we got the missing rain all in one lot a few weeks back. Still drying out.
 
GregT said:
Yeah, spring and early summer we had grass up the wazoo (technical farming term) but mid-late summer turned to drought.
People were buying in stock to fatten on the promise of a good year. Wrong....
The seasons are out of wack.
And of course in the South Island we got the missing rain all in one lot a few weeks back. Still drying out.
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Yeah, kinda that way here too. Was really dry first of the year, was really sweating feeding stock this summer, then bang, 3-4 inches of rain last of May, first of June, cool weather all month and now 4-5 inches of rain over 3 days! This is fall weather here. It is a strange year for sure!
 
So this is not a very pleasant post but British Columbia has just been through a record setting heatwave. One small town made the news three times ..... and then a fourth time.

First was a new hottest temperature recorded in Canada at 46.1 C ..... the old record was 45.0 C in Saskatchewan 84 years ago.
The next day they broke the record with a 47.5 C measured.
The third day was another new record at 49.6 C.

The fourth day they had close to same high temperatures and a 70 km/hr wind. Something sparked a fire and within a matter of minutes the town was no more.

Very sad.

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