Weather where you are?

A couple of weeks ago I was driving “The Barkly” highway

There were fires every few kilometres. A strong NW wind was pushing them in the scrub/cattle grazing land.

On the uhf I heard a few comments about ‘dry lightening’

Further down the road was a triple trailer road train ”crate” (a livestock truck) that had done a trailer wheel bearing, crawling along the highway.

The ‘dry lightening’ was in fact burning grease dropping down and lighting up roadside grass every time old mate tried to pull off the road.

I question the term ‘dry lightening’.
Until a few years ago, I’d never heard of it before
 
There used to be lots of stories about 4-wheel drives going off track and hot exhaust catching the Spinafex under the truck on fire. A lot of the big fires in Eastern Oz 4 or 5 years back were caused by dry lightning, according to the Firies. When you have a Fire come out of the middle of a huge wilderness with no access to people or out of the Unused at the time, Live Fire Military range, definitely no people near Lithgow and Storm cells about, it's 2 and 2. Just saw we have another East Coast Low forming off Sydney next week. It's just non-stop rain since Christmas, and to rub it in, big rain now causes big vegetation growth, and that means lots of fuel for next year's Fire Season.
 
Vince said:
There used to be lots of stories about 4-wheel drives going off track and hot exhaust catching the Spinafex under the truck on fire. A lot of the big fires in Eastern Oz 4 or 5 years back were caused by dry lightning, according to the Firies. When you have a Fire come out of the middle of a huge wilderness with no access to people or out of the Unused at the time, Live Fire Military range, definitely no people near Lithgow and Storm cells about, it's 2 and 2. Just saw we have another East Coast Low forming off Sydney next week. It's just non-stop rain since Christmas, and to rub it in, big rain now causes big vegetation growth, and that means lots of fuel for next year's Fire Season.
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Speaking of which, how’s Legs goin?
 
This year's Snowy Run starts with us heading to South Oz from Sydney and then back via The Snowys. It's 12 days of the best roads down that way. Time for a change.
 
WOW! What a big drop in temperature across Canada within the last couple of days. From Hi-20's and Mid-30's to single digits - It's warmer in Northern Siberia right now ;o)
 
Laverda SF said:
WOW! What a big drop in temperature across Canada within the last couple of days. From Hi-20's and Mid-30's to single digits - It's warmer in Northern Siberia right now ;o)
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There was an unusual late fall type storm that moved in over Western Canada, which dumped 130 yr old record breaking rain to the southwest. My rain collection sistern I’ve set up over the years from rain water off my garden shed has been bone dry since early July, was filled in 4 hrs hard rain, 80 imperial gallons! Forecast the next 2 weeks are back to full summer, slightly above average of 23c in coastal Vancouver, much higher in the inland desert, at least 35c.
 
Hotter than hell in a rainstorm here in DaNang. Oppressive muggy heat, but it cools a bit at night and is fine for outdoor dining. It rained off and on the last couple of days. The real rains start in November.
 
Alzero said:
Hotter than hell in a rainstorm here in DaNang. Oppressive muggy heat, but it cools a bit at night and is fine for outdoor dining. It rained off and on the last couple of days. The real rains start in November.
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So have you decided to live there permanently ;o)
 
Laverda SF said:
So have you decided to live there permanently ;o)
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No, only until the first week in January. Then 2 months on a Thai island up near Burma, med check in KL and back to California to cull our stuff and pack for shipping to France. We want to be well clear of the US before it gets even crazier and especially before the elections.

And then I can buy an A2 bike! And make a Laverda mechanic rich when I do a freshen up on my RGS. I’ll have two years before I can ride it. ☹️
 
Alzero said:
No, only until the first week in January. Then 2 months on a Thai island up near Burma, med check in KL and back to California to cull our stuff and pack for shipping to France. We want to be well clear of the US before it gets even crazier and especially before the elections.

And then I can buy an A2 bike! And make a Laverda mechanic rich when I do a freshen up on my RGS. I’ll have two years before I can ride it. ☹️
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Great Expectations I wish you Best - I hated reading that Dickens Novel but it was mandatory in my education where I would sooner read Lord Dunsany and Tolkien then I read The Matrix by Sophia Stewart in the late 70's which blew my mind ;o)
 
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How could you hate a story with a character like Magwitch in it?
I also hated most of the books we had to study (which our mum, an english teacher, said we were so lucky to get) and have read many of them since and I totally agree with her, fantastic novels, but wasted on me as a kid.
 
Tippie - I suppose you like Shakespeare too - Been there and always hated it too - I would sooner be reading the Columbia Desk Encyclopedia or Popular Science - Each to his own but it was a challenge for me to convince my English Teachers that I actually read what was in the course correct-ilium ;o)
 
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