How's The Weather By You?

A downright cold wind here kept a nice sunny day well short of being perfect.

But I think GW must be taking affect because the half naked fashion posers at Flemington (Melb Cup) weren't shivering and standing under umbrellas this year.
 

First hail storm of the season. Biggest hail I've seen too, not as massive as some get but bigger than the usual.

Another storm heading in now but it doesn't have that 'green' look to it so just water in this one I think.

'There are many hailstones, but these ones are mine.'

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Found one obvious dent (right in the eye-line, of course). There will be more ..... they will show up when it's clean and in different light. :(

Considering the size of the hail, it's a miracle there wasn't more damage.
 
Gassspppp! Not the Kluger! I was tossing up whether to back mine out in it, but nah, couldn't do that to her. (Couldn't afford to do without a car either, they'd just write her off for market value and she's worth a lot more than that to me.)
 
Jillaroo said:
Let's hope there's no more, as long as you are safe cars can be fixed
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I was eating chicken breast on fricasseed bacon and sipping a Toohey's Old. No way I was going to interrupt that over a car. ;)

I'll check for other damage in the sunlight tomorrow but I expect I'll be able to show you the "damage" when next we visit Coffs.
 
Diwundrin said:
Gassspppp! Not the Kluger! I was tossing up whether to back mine out in it, but nah, couldn't do that to her. (Couldn't afford to do without a car either, they'd just write her off for market value and she's worth a lot more than that to me.)
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Before I had checked, I sent my wealthy son (the one who wasn't eating with us at the time) a text offering a near-new, slightly hail-damaged Kluger for sale. The offer has since been withdrawn .....
 
This Summer, around Sydney, we had temperatures and winds to extreme, temperatures up to 42C, winds up to 90 km/h.
And a lot of Bush fires!
But lately it is cooler, today 18C, light breeze.
In February 2014, I'm going to Europe, there is Winter!!
 
Here in Charlotte, NC, we will have a high of 70 today and tomorrow, with temps dropping 10+ degrees for the rest of the week. But, darn it, every day shows rain or very cloudy....so depressing!
 
TWHRider said:
We have been under a Tornado WATCH since late morning. Right now (2:00 PM Central) it is around 74 F, sticky and the air is quiet.

The birds are still flitting around the feeder so I'm not worried. When I see them disappear and the outdoor silence becomes deafening, I know it's time to put my purse, keys and blood pressure medicine in the interior closet - lol lol lol
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Keep us updated. The birds are a good sign.
 
TWH; hope you are ok!!!! We've been hearing on the news about the tornadoes in Illinois, Tennessee and other places. Hope you are safe - this seems unusual for this time of year, but you never know.

Was 73 this morning here; terribly windy all night...then dropped to 50's and has settled now. Storms went north and east of us this time.
 
Fingers crossed for all of you in harm's way .....

When I heard about the storms this morning (Oz time) and thinking that it is an odd time of year for tornadoes, I started reading up and found this interesting article:
When and Where Do Tornadoes Occur?


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Figure 4. Hattiesburg, Miss. is typical of the southeastern United
States with no discernible annual cycle for tornadoes, even though
the total number of tornadoes for the year is only 20 percent less
than Lubbock.

Learn a new thing every day?
 
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'Tis a dark and stormy afternoon' here, 1.45pm and lookin' 7pmish, and gettin' darker but it seems the worst of it will pass to the south.

Hope that Tornado thing went okay for everyone??? Storms a very minor excitement compared to those things.
 
Hope you and yours stay safe TWHRider. I know they delayed the football game in Chicago today, and made all the fans go indoors until there was no longer a threat. Our weather here has been getting cooler, but still sunny and warm enough for just a sweatshirt outdoors. Only snow right now is in the mountain areas.
 
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