Weather where you are?

helicopterjim said:
Atmospheric fucking river. Just a new name to a weather event that has been happening forever. We used to call it the Pineapple Express in BC ...... but if you want to make something sound "Epic: and :Unprecedented" then give it a new name.

Jim
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Oh, like anti wrinkle cream.
Same snake oil, but every few months it is advertised as: All new formula. :rolleyes:

Or the petrol that cleans and protects with every tank. :rolleyes:
 
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Another thunderstorm in Sydney is been 100% a wet La xxx summer and it's not over yet, so many Cyclones as well up north. The last time this happened half of Brisbane went underwater and a lot of North Queensland blew away. Plus this

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Hi Jim and all

same here, warmed up from the bloody minus 30 C to minus 40 C of the last few weeks, just above zero to day and everything is melting into an ugly mess.

funniest thing I heard today on the radio about the last few weeks of bloody cold..... the Calgary Zoo has a great penguin house and exhibit, and one of the highlights at the zoo is the daily Penguin Walk, they take a bunch of the big King penguins out for a supervised stroll around the zoo, much to the delight of visitors. Problem has been that for the past few weeks IT HAS BEEN TOO COLD TO LET THE PENGUINS OUTSIDE...... now that it has warmed up they are starting the daily Penguin Walk again. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-...of-2022-celebrates-10th-anniversary-1.5734590

Paul LeClair
 
It might be too cold for the keepers and visitors but I doubt it's too cold for the King Penguins considering they winter up on the plateau a good distance from the coast in the Antarctic and that gets even colder. Splitting hairs and skin anyway, anything below -5c is not for me.
 
I reckon you're thinking of Emperor penguins Vince. They look very similar to King penguins except the Emperor is a bit bigger.
It's Emperors that spend the Antarctic winter huddled together on the sea ice close to the Antarctic coast. They're the only Antarctic animal to spend winter out of the water.

No species of penguin ever gets up as far as the Antarctic plateau. Penguins that breed on mainland Antarctica choose exposed rocky coastal areas for their rookeries. Occasionally a penguin will wander too far inland from the shore and get lost. They won't survive if they can't find their way back pretty quickly. I've found a couple of dead (frozen solid) Adelie penguins miles from their rookeries in the Vestfold Hills near Davis Station.

King penguins (like all other Antarctic penguin species except Emperor) spend winter feeding and fattening up at sea. They only come ashore mostly on sub-Antarctic islands in summer to breed. I doubt they'd be as tolerant of extreme cold as Emperor penguins. They'd normally live in temps around 0 C and might occasionally see temps as low as about -10 C during the Antarctic summer. So I reckon Calgary's -30 to -40 would more than likely kill them if they spent too long outside.
 
I read something recently that mentioned a ‘Wolf moon’ putting in appearance around now.
I’m now back in IOM after my briefer than intended trip away, but it’s a barmy 10C today. So much for deep winter.
 
Its either too wet or too hot to ride, 2 nice days in a row would be a good change. My suburb got 130mm of rain in one night last week. It's a wet summer here
 
Hold on to your hats gentlemen, here we have a middlewind speed of wayy over 40m/s - strong hurricane. Everything is shut down and secured.
Kind regards,
Jacques
 
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