How's The Weather By You?

24deg celsius here70+ far today 42 celsius last Thursday,so its nice to have a few days break from the heat.
 

Pappy said:
Minus nine degrees up north at the old campsite. Brrr. 47 degrees here this morning in Florida. Cool, for sure, but going back up to 70s Saturday. Now let's see....where did I put my long pants?
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Pappy, you have to be thinking "not fair!" Your temps this morning were just a tad higher than ours. It's ridiculously colder everywhere it seems. 40's is cold for us, and with it being much lower for you guys will cause the east coast to be screwed to the wall on citrus prices. For sure, it would be highly unlikely for us to see 70's again 'til spring....the beauty of moving to FL.

I feel so bad for those in blizzard conditions with no end in sight. Our power was out for a couple hrs last night due to an accident. I can't imagine how awful it would be not knowing if or when it's going out and how long it may be before it's back on due to ice.
 

Was almost 60 F degrees today and sunny, temps dropping now and 2-4 inches of snow predicted, starting after midnight.
 
Pappy said:
Minus nine degrees up north at the old campsite. Brrr. 47 degrees here this morning in Florida. Cool, for sure, but going back up to 70s Saturday. Now let's see....where did I put my long pants?
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47?!?

You mean I'm going to have to schlep my winter coat down there? I thought I could just leave it in the Goodwill box when I leave ... :(

Maaaaan ... do trailers even HAVE heat?
 
Wow Warrigal, that's waaay too hot for me! Hope you're doing okay in the hot summer weather there. Seems like just yesterday you were posting photos of the fires by you. We've had a lot of drought and hot conditions for quite a few summers now, and they always encourage wildfires in my area. Luckily it doesn't get much over 100% for any length of time.
 
I'm in Sydney where the weather is much more tolerable.

It's only 27 degrees C here (81oF)

There are some fires on the go at the moment.
It wouldn't be Summer if there were not but not near me and not at Oodnadatta either
because there's nothing there to burn but scorched dirt.
 
That could be why Oodnadatta never became a metropolis. It's just a gas station with a few houses scattered around. It and Innaminka only existed as a bivouac for the repair crews for the overland telegraph and train line. I can't believe anyone still lives there. Tourists passing through needing fuel I suppose.

Had to smile that the only people they could find to interview were UK and US tourists, the locals had all gone to ground apparently.

Dry heat isn't all that hard to cope with but 45C is the highest I've experienced.
54C in a bone dry climate isn't as lethal as in a humid one, humidity at that temp would stew your lungs.

Mum and I went swimming in the hot springs in Lightning Ridge at dusk on a 40C day. The water was 41C so we didn't even notice the difference. We were fine with it, no ill effects at all.
Their pool looks a lot better now. Back then it was a concrete tank sunk in the ground full of hot green weedy/algae water and surrounded by nothing more than bare dirt. They've tarted it up a bit these days I see.
(We were told nobody swam in the little one, it was a tad cooler and the locals used it to exercise the greyhounds.) Talk about hot dogs.

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We don't have 'hot' cornered, plenty of places on the planet that get hotter for longer than here, I think the UK media make a bigger deal of whatever's going on here than it merits usually. Those fires they mention got a few seconds on our News, no big deal either.
 
SifuPhil said:
47?!?

You mean I'm going to have to schlep my winter coat down there? I thought I could just leave it in the Goodwill box when I leave ... :(

Maaaaan ... do trailers even HAVE heat?
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I brought my winter coat down 14 years ago and it is somewhere in the closet, or did I give it to Goodwill? Leave it up there Phil. Hoodies are very popular down here and you can always use your hoodie to rob a gas station if things get rough.

My camper has propane heat and here in Fla. We have a combo heater, air conditioner. Only have to heat, cool 11 hundred square feet, so my bills are quite reasonable.
 
TWHRider, hope you, hubby and the horses stay safe in that frigid weather. It's rough living your lifestyle, but you guys have it together will all the precautions that need to be taken. Will be thinking about you, and hoping things don't get too bad. It's been lightly snowing here since last night, a couple of inches on the ground, it's been around 16-18 degrees all day.
 
Thank you TWH, I feel I've just had a bucket of water thrown over me. The full gravity of the situation over there finally hit me when I remembered you're in Tennessee! That is one serious weather system. It's being described, by people like me who can't really get their heads around it as a 'polar vortex' (?).
All I can think of is "The Day After Tomorrow." with the great SFX of the skyscrapers turning to frost from the top down. And a book I read about Mammoths being dug out of a glacier somewhere, still intact, with grass in their mouths and no injuries. The only conclusion the scientists could draw was that a weather system must have brought the jet stream down to ground level and snap frozen them where they stood!

Coincidentally, the usually very lightweight, weekend radio host is regaling us with facts and figures and stories from over there as he seems to know that like himself, we don't, in the main 'get' blizzards, sleet and long term intense cold.

Some OZ members live where it snows, and sleets, for a few days or weeks a year. But to the rest of us that's the stuff we see in movies. Where I lived we got 2 or 3 at most subfreezing overnight temps, best/worst was -7C but you had to be up early to see that. By 10am the frost was gone, the sun was shining and the temp was up around +12C. The most damage sustained was a split garden hose if you left too much water pressure in it.
I thought it was too damned cold to stay there! What a wuss! Now I see why my Canadian friend kept laughing and saying "no, this isn't Winter."

So a renewed, be safe to all of you. Even those in Florida! As TWH mentioned not everyone is geared up to withstand that kind of weather.
 
TWHRider said:
The U.S. weather is going to tank in record ways, pretty much no matter where one lives.

Panama City FL is predicted to have highs of right at freezing -- there goes the fruit prices.

Our high for Monday will be 8F with a low of 1F, putting our wind chill well below zero.

It is not a healthy situation for any of the southern states that aren't "built" for it.

This weather is nothing to make light of; beginning Sunday thru Tuesday it will hit my area in record breaking ways. I am not the Piggy in the straw house waiting to be blown down - we are taking every precaution for ourselves and the horses that we know how to take, and then some.

Sunday night or Monday night could be the last nights for a lot of homeless or elderly that don't have heat and are too proud to go to shelters. Check on your friends and neighbors.

Sunday we will wake up to rain that will spin backward, into freezing rain, then snow. No winter maintenance on our road, we may be iced in for a few days depending which direction the wind blows in.

The generator actually started, is full of fresh gas; my chainsaw is back running (thank you ethanol for both chain saws quitting--errrrrr; stock tanks are heated and full of water in case the frost frees don't want to work and we have to hand carry water into the barn.

Doors under all the sinks will be left open for warm air to circulate and the spigots will be left dripping all night. I'll pay the water bill anytime over burst pipes.

I think Mr. TWH is bringing up a "house safe" portable propane heater to run on low in the kitchen/dining area for the purpose of keeping the floors warm so pipes don't freeze. Nothing is wrapped and we're on a crawl space.

http://t.news.msn.com/us/historic-freeze-could-break-midwest-temp-records

Historic freeze could break Midwest temp records

This in Nebraska, the place caught on fire and this how putting the fire out went on January 3rd.
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Sunlight streams through the windows of a building which caught on fire in Plattsmouth, Neb., Friday, Jan. 3, 2014, and the water sprayed on it by fire fighters froze. Much of the American northeast and the midwest are suffering from sub-freezing temperatures.
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No, TWH, we're not built for this, and the areas you referred to are beyond desperate. I'm just hoping the homeless are lucid enough to seek shelter. I don't mean in any way to make light of the situation, but global warming sounds good for a few weeks to get through this over the top mess!

My thoughts are w/you and your horses, know you're worried sick.
 
Yep, it was only 118F and that, believe it or not, is considered normal for a day or 3 in those regions every few years or so. Always was!
It also drops below zero in winter overnight but that won't make a headline. It's in a desert, that's what happens in deserts.

Regular 50C temps register at the opal mining town of Coober Pedy which is why it's almost invisible. They live underground and just have sheds at ground level for air transfer and exits. Some have swimming pools in the sheds and 3brooms homes with mod cons under them.
Even the motel is underground, gouged out of the softish rock in which opal is found. It's 25C all year round down there, perfect. No air-con required. It's all about adapting to conditions isn't it?

The UK media in particular have a set on OZ, they resent us winning cricket matches I think, and portray it as Hell on Earth at every opportunity.
Blink hard before you swallow anything about OZ from those rags, especially the Guardian.

As for city records, I distinctly remember a stretch of 4 consecutive days when Sydney was 110f, and didn't drop below 90f at night. That was at least 55+ years ago so I find some of these recent 'records' a bit puzzling.

I only remember it because we were staying in Muswellbrook at the time, where it was even hotter, but considered normal, and were chuckling about the flapping of the city folk. We stopped laughing when we got home and found everything in the garden had karked and the fridge exploded pink fluffy mould over Dad when he restarted it and opened the door. That bowl of plums left in the bottom of it to ripen had gone ballistic in the heat. siiiiigh.

It's just not hotter now, I don't care what the figures and 'the science' tell us. People in the Hunter Valley used to throw mosquito nets over the clothes lines and sleep on the ground in heatwaves to get out of their hotbox houses which all had corrugated iron roofs and air-cons and insulation weren't invented yet.

Technology has lulled us into thinking things haven't been so bad lately but are suddenly getting worse. They're really not. There's just more media with ever greater means to fill our heads with it.
 

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