So How About the Weather....

nanoboy said:
Any snow from this storm?
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Currently a few inches are pouring from the sky, yes. School has been canceled for the day. Yesterday was a 90 minute delay for school because all the roads, parking lots, and driveways had completely iced over when it snowed a little Sunday night. It had all melted by the time I got home from school.

~Thylo:cool:
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Currently a few inches are pouring from the sky, yes. School has been canceled for the day. Yesterday was a 90 minute delay for school because all the roads, parking lots, and driveways had completely iced over when it snowed a little Sunday night. It had all melted by the time I got home from school.

~Thylo:cool:
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First snow storm for the season. Cool!

I am not looking forward to our first 40C (100F+) day of the season. It's usually preceded (and followed) by a few very hot, dry days, which inevitably lead to bush fires. The really big ones burn for days and weeks, with much destruction. Indeed, back in 2009, 175 people died in bushfires, not an hour's drive from Melbourne. The sad part though, is that many of the fires were lit by arsonists.
 
nanoboy said:
Indeed, back in 2009, 175 people died in bushfires, not an hour's drive from Melbourne. The sad part though, is that many of the fires were lit by arsonists.
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was that the Black Saturday bushfires?
 
I have to say that the weather in Melbourne currently is atrocious and not at all summery. I was in Canberra last week with 30+ days mostly, and to come back to wet, windy, ridiculously changeable home was not nice. Hence I shall not be spending Christmas here, but somewhere hopefully warmer and drier.
 
In Michigan we have had snow for a while. Today we got five inches and tomorrow we are suppose to get five more inches, and then on Saturday six more inches!! Thank God for snowmobiles.
 
zooboy28 said:
I have to say that the weather in Melbourne currently is atrocious and not at all summery. I was in Canberra last week with 30+ days mostly, and to come back to wet, windy, ridiculously changeable home was not nice. Hence I shall not be spending Christmas here, but somewhere hopefully warmer and drier.
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may I suggest Namibia? I wonder if anyone on here has been there yet?
 
zooboy28 said:
I have to say that the weather in Melbourne currently is atrocious and not at all summery. I was in Canberra last week with 30+ days mostly, and to come back to wet, windy, ridiculously changeable home was not nice. Hence I shall not be spending Christmas here, but somewhere hopefully warmer and drier.
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I'm loving summer. Every cool wet day we have reduces the chances of us having a catastrophic fire season. My lawn is still green too, which is great.
 
JBZvolunteer said:
In Michigan we have had snow for a while. Today we got five inches and tomorrow we are suppose to get five more inches, and then on Saturday six more inches!! Thank God for snowmobiles.
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Oh very cool. What's the snow depth at the moment? Post a pic!!
 
I have been in Namibia ;)

The weather here in Toamasina, Madagascar is hot and dry, about 35 degrees celcius and although it rains in the rest of Madagascar, it is dry in the wettest part of Madagascar, at least until sunday...
 
Here in Essex UK we are having our 3rd morning in a row of freezing fog It's not as thick this morning, and you can look at the sun through it. Everything has a coating of frost, no snow yet It hasn't even rained since the 23rd of November But yesterday I checked a clients weather station and the Gage showed 2mm of water, purely from the mist and dew.
 
dean said:
Here in Essex UK we are having our 3rd morning in a row of freezing fog It's not as thick this morning, and you can look at the sun through it. Everything has a coating of frost, no snow yet It hasn't even rained since the 23rd of November But yesterday I checked a clients weather station and the Gage showed 2mm of water, purely from the mist and dew.
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I saw some amazing pics of the London fog. I never saw any fog when I lived there a few years ago.
 
nanoboy said:
I saw some amazing pics of the London fog. I never saw any fog when I lived there a few years ago.
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It tends to be a seasonal thing especially autumn and some times spring, I spoke to soon on the dry spell, it is pouring down this morning, but only a little misty.
To back track afew posts, I remember when we were in Sydney 12 years ago this month the fires raging i the state spoiled our last weak as the smoke was everywhere and killed all the views and sunshine.
i recall at the times the environmentalists getting hard time by refusing to allow the natural burns that the forests etc used to suffer so clearing the ground of some of the dead wood. which meant when the fires started they burnt far hotter and deeper than the historical flash burns. Was anything done about it? the regular burning I mean.
 
dean said:
It tends to be a seasonal thing especially autumn and some times spring, I spoke to soon on the dry spell, it is pouring down this morning, but only a little misty.
To back track afew posts, I remember when we were in Sydney 12 years ago this month the fires raging i the state spoiled our last weak as the smoke was everywhere and killed all the views and sunshine.
i recall at the times the environmentalists getting hard time by refusing to allow the natural burns that the forests etc used to suffer so clearing the ground of some of the dead wood. which meant when the fires started they burnt far hotter and deeper than the historical flash burns. Was anything done about it? the regular burning I mean.
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There are controlled burns in Victoria. I think that although we are getting better at it, we still haven't mastered it, and don't have the resources needed for us to really be prepared for a rough fire season.

This coming Thursday will be 38C. Today, however, will only be 20C. In Melbourne, it's all about the wind direction: northerly from the centre of the continent means hot weather, and southerly winds from Antarctica mean cold weather.
 
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