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Being Finnish, I start wishing for death when it gets above 25 degrees Celsius unless it's in a sauna. I suspect my body would just shut down if I had to deal with heat like that. Fortunately we're sitting on some 40cm of snow and all's well in the world. 
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Super blizzard apparently hitting the Prairies here in Canada tomorrow. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ne...stormwatch_city 20-40CM of snow in Winnipeg - going to be a fun weekend it looks like!
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Vintersorg posted:Super blizzard apparently hitting the Prairies here in Canada tomorrow. Looks like it'll juuuuuuust miss clipping Saskatoon, woo. Drivers here have been absolutely horrible this winter on clear days, they basically shut down in a nervous fit if it snows. Worst drivers of any city I have ever been to. Absolutely atrocious. Nobody should ever move here.
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lt_kennedy posted:I've been loving this horrifying purple spot of death heat that's been hovering over most of the center of Australia recently This is what I always imagined would happen if a giant hole formed in the ozone layer and let everything in.
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You do acclimatise to some extent to it though. This is my first Australian summer (I'm from the UK) and over the last 6 months we've adjusted to higher temps. Anything under 20*c feels 'cold' now, 25*c is pleasantly hot and 30*c and above is hot. People here start pulling out heavy winter coats and scarves if the temperature is in the teens. Tuesday when it hit 42*c in Sydney was the hottest day I've lived through and it was interesting. It was a really dry heat, Sydney is usually humid so that was really noticeable. I could feel all the moisture evaporating from my skin and breathing in hot air is unpleasant. You find yourself taking shallower breaths and moving slowly. It really is like walking into a huge oven. I was reading some reports about people living in Oodnadatta in SA where it's been over 45*c for a week now and they've basically turned nocturnal, getting up at 4am to go shopping and do stuff and then hiding indoors during the day. It's going to stay very hot in Australia for up to another week yet, a lot of inland towns are going to come close to 50*c. Meteorologists are saying that the late, and so far, weak monsoon season is the reason the heat cell over central Australia is persisting so long. Even tropical cyclone Narelle that is currently at category 4 and hovering off the western coast isn't cooling the heat cell down. Link to article in SMH here.
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Master Stur posted:This is what I always imagined would happen if a giant hole formed in the ozone layer and let everything in. It looks like someone is holding a magnifying lens there, and we are the ants.
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I hypothesize that, some day soon, the hardy survivors of Australia's new Heat Age will swarm over the rest of the planet like a plague of locusts. Emboldened by their resistance to new new, rising temperatures and careless disregard for poisonous animals, I can only hope that they will stop by my neck of the woods so we can reminisce about the days where tornadoes were not made of fire, and that frozen water once fell from the sky.
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Oh God, the koalas. If I have to see those little burned paws again....  Is there any way we here in the States can donate to help those who have been affected by the fires in Australia?
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I don't think you can over state how Australia is getting absolutely hammered at the moment. There's probably going to be a whole bunch of deaths by the time the summer is over. In 2009 we lost 200 people and 700+ homes, this is in a country with about the same landmass and 10% the population of the USA. Here's a national geographic article "This year has seen hundreds of fires in virtually every Australian state, with 130 in this week alone in the country’s most populous state, New South Wales, according to the Guardian (Jan. 8, 2013)." And some pretty space pics of our country burning off. I used to work out in the outback and up in the Pilbra region in Western Australia where it gets stupid hot. I remember we were doing a vegetation survey one time in 45 degree weather with moderate/high humidity. We were absolutely soaked in sweat and walking around like astronauts do on the moon. We had a car nearby so we could get water and not carry all the gear for the day. We'd walk 100m, bang a picket into the ground, stop for a minute to recover and do it again. Every time the wind picked up I'd start shivering as the sweat evaporated. About 3pm everything went to poo poo and a massive lightning storm came out of nowhere and dumped a poo poo ton of rain and blew all our work away. We called it a day and had a beer. And that is why I don't live in Australia anymore.
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I get pretty bitchy above 95°F/35°C, but this summer will be the first time in 5 years I've had a car with working A/C and without leather seats. I can't imagine 50C though. The highest I've ever seen here is 43°.
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Vintersorg posted:Super blizzard apparently hitting the Prairies here in Canada tomorrow. We're having a super blizzard too! http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfou...-snow-1.1109200 It's pretty crazy because instead of the usual 50-60cm December total, we got about 8cm. So it's like we're getting it all at once now plus interest. Looks like this storm might break the old 24 hr snowfall record (79 cm I think).
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SouthLAnd posted:I get pretty bitchy above 95°F/35°C, but this summer will be the first time in 5 years I've had a car with working A/C and without leather seats. The worst part wasn't 50C, though, it was getting back into the car to drive back to the hotel. A car that had been cooking in the hot sun for hours on top of 50C ambient. Ugggghhhhhh Thank god for AC. grover fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2013 around 01:05 |
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Worst I've experienced was 45C. And it was humid. loving Newcastle weather. Dry heat is so much more bearable than moist heat, even if you can feel the moisture wicking away on your tongue. And yeah, everybody wear your sunscreen and a hat. Our national melanoma rate is already high enough, and I swear if you went to the beach and listened really hard you could hear people sizzling in the sun like not-so-quite smoked bacon.
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grover posted:The worst part wasn't 50C, though, it was getting back into the car to drive back to the hotel. A car that had been cooking in the hot sun for hours on top of 50C ambient. Ugggghhhhhh
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This line of talk reminds me that I need to get my car tinted before Texas summer comes along.
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Picnic Princess posted:loving Australia, holy hell. I've been in a desert at 42C, I can't even fathom even higher than that. Hopefully you guys cool off soon, even if it's only down to 35. It was 42C in Sydney City a few days ago! City centre, not outback Also, when Australia gets really hot it becomes extremely dry. 40C here I can handle, the 30C in the Tropical locations destroys me Powershift posted:I was surprised when i was in australia in 09 and it hit 43*C. I was laying on my bed with a 2 liter bottle of ice on my chest and a fan blowing on my trying not to die. I figured aussies would be a little better aclimated to it, but my aussie roommates were doing about as poorly. Makes me wonder how they would handle -40*C Anything below 35 I'm fine. Once it goes above that, everyone I know is out for the count and spread out over a couch
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In Pennsylvania it has been cold. But we had a few inches of snow one time. My entire winter is wanting for snow to come, and then getting pissed off from all the snow on the ground when it does snow. I can't win.
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It's been a very mild winter in northern IL so far, especially this January. We're actually getting a nice thundershower here at the moment, thankfully. It's shaping up to be the most precip we've gotten in a month or two, and we need every bit of it. 
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 fire services report a huge dust storm off the coast of Western Australia
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Lux Crownguard posted:
This is from a new michael bay movie, right?
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Helith posted:You do acclimatise to some extent to it though. This is my first Australian summer (I'm from the UK) and over the last 6 months we've adjusted to higher temps. Anything under 20*c feels 'cold' now, 25*c is pleasantly hot and 30*c and above is hot. People here start pulling out heavy winter coats and scarves if the temperature is in the teens. Nonsense, I'm in Sydney too and Tuesday didn't feel like 42 degrees at all. I put that up to the nice cool breeze we had all day. It certainly wasn't as bad as New Year's Day in 2006 when it hit 44 degrees and I was stuck in a car driving home.
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Ignimbrite posted:Worst I've experienced was 45C. And it was humid. loving Newcastle weather. I was living in Newcastle during the 2009 heatwave when it was 38-45C for two weeks with no relief. I had a poky little apartment on the west side of the building where it got the full sun during the day with no air-conditioning except for a dinky little electric fan; it was seriously like a goddamn oven. Luckily, you could always find two or three pubs open on my street, and their air-con is always sublime.  Octy posted:Nonsense, I'm in Sydney too and Tuesday didn't feel like 42 degrees at all. Crazy talk. I'm a dog-walker and my clients won't tolerate their dogs going un-walked for even a day, so I was out in the open at midday and I could feel every one of those 42 degrees. (I'm in the Darlinghurst area, no idea where you are.)
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hobbesmaster posted:This is from a new michael bay movie, right? it's legit, it was shown on Sunrise (Channel 7) this morning
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Lux Crownguard posted:it's legit, it was shown on Sunrise (Channel 7) this morning I know, heres a website from TWC: http://www.weather.com/news/dust-st...tralia-20130110 That must have been terrifying to witness.
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hobbesmaster posted:This is from a new michael bay movie, right? That photo is pretty incredible, but that's not the first time this has happened. Back in 2009, this insane dust storm took over our entire eastern seaboard. I remember waking up at 6am, it was freezing cold (it was mid-spring if I recall), the sky was blood-red, and I couldn't see more than three metres out of my window. I'm not usually a hysterical person but for a few minutes I honestly thought something apocalyptic was going on.    (These were taken in Sydney, I got them from here.) I love this country. Avshalom fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2013 around 04:20 |
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Psalmanazar posted:Tasmania lit on fire a few days ago, they're in recovery mode. This has all been pretty crazy, the fires got close to where my family live, but missed them. They were without power and phones for a while but everything seems to be ok now. They help run a cafe/museum/shop out in that area, and are making a point of staying open to help supply the locals with essentials. Good people they are. The next town over got pretty badly hit, losing a whole bunch of houses and a school. It was just luck with the wind that meant the fires didn't make it to their town.
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Starting at 6:45 this morning, and two more times at 3 hour intervals, I got flash flood warning texts from the WEA system. drat handy.
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Avshalom posted:That photo is pretty incredible, but that's not the first time this has happened. Back in 2009, this insane dust storm took over our entire eastern seaboard. I remember waking up at 6am, it was freezing cold (it was mid-spring if I recall), the sky was blood-red, and I couldn't see more than three metres out of my window. I'm not usually a hysterical person but for a few minutes I honestly thought something apocalyptic was going on. Apocalyptic weather every few years, weather above 50C and every single animal is poisonous and trying to kill you. The english really knew how to choose their penal colonies didn't they.
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jejeje posted:We're having a super blizzard too! That is uh a lot of snow. Is that somewhat typical for NL or is this a freak event? Like in the States I think we only see 40 inches of non-mountain snow in the lake effect areas and that usually takes several days for the right conditions to happen. But maybe I am forgetting somewhere.
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Octy posted:Nonsense, I'm in Sydney too and Tuesday didn't feel like 42 degrees at all. I put that up to the nice cool breeze we had all day. It certainly wasn't as bad as New Year's Day in 2006 when it hit 44 degrees and I was stuck in a car driving home. I'm curious too as to whereabouts in Sydney you are because in North Sydney there wasn't a cool breeze at all. In fact that was the whole reason that central Sydney reached those temperatures, the winds were coming from the northwest bringing the hot air from central Aus instead of from the sea. The wind was hot that day where I was and I could well believe it was 42c. Next time we have those conditions I think I need to come to where you are so I can catch the cool breezes 
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Christchurch, New Zealand has got in on the act with a spate of wild fires and the hottest night ever recorded in the city (which is not that hot, but still). Why? Well, according to one report "A blob of extremely warm air from the Australian outback crossed the South Island overnight on Wednesday and intensified as a result of the foehn effect". "Blob" is clearly a technical term.
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Helith posted:I'm curious too as to whereabouts in Sydney you are because in North Sydney there wasn't a cool breeze at all. In fact that was the whole reason that central Sydney reached those temperatures, the winds were coming from the northwest bringing the hot air from central Aus instead of from the sea. The wind was hot that day where I was and I could well believe it was 42c. Inner West. There was definitely a slightly cool breeze in the late morning. I talked about it to someone who was in the city at the time and he felt it too. Then again, twelve foot high ceilings and a pool to swim in might have mucked up my sense of the heat. 
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Octy posted:Inner West. There was definitely a slightly cool breeze in the late morning. I talked about it to someone who was in the city at the time and he felt it too. The breeze was hot, like a hairdryer. On the porch, feeling the wind that came from between two shaded parts of the house, the wind 'chill' factor was overbearingly hot. Normally with wind rushing past it's thermal loss. The heat isnt the crazy thing though. Sydney's weather sucks because it will be 43c one day, literally 21c 9 hours later. Cold enough to wear a jacket. Then back up to 35c. Compare month's max min to Brisbane's. Brisbane is a nice flat line. Not too hot, never too cold. Sydney is loving cold n loving hot in the space of a week.
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nimh posted:The breeze was hot, like a hairdryer. On the porch, feeling the wind that came from between two shaded parts of the house, the wind 'chill' factor was overbearingly hot. Normally with wind rushing past it's thermal loss. Well, I don't know what to tell you. Seemed cool to me.
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Octy posted:Well, I don't know what to tell you. Seemed cool to me. Maybe you had some cooling air being closer to the ocean. Im in north west suburbia, porbably air coming straight from the baking, asphalted, deforested areas like Kellyville
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nimh posted:Maybe you had some cooling air being closer to the ocean. Im in north west suburbia, porbably air coming straight from the baking, asphalted, deforested areas like Kellyville I do live near a bay. Not close enough to see the water, but it's a fairly short walk. Lots of trees in my suburb too. Now tomorrow is going to be fun - 39 degrees. I'm sure it was forecast for 34 when I checked it last.
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Octy posted:I do live near a bay. Not close enough to see the water, but it's a fairly short walk. Lots of trees in my suburb too. How hot was it where you are today? It's been around 40 C here in the outer West today (still 39 C). Friday and Saturday were always predicted to be hot. Tomorrow's forecast for here has changed from 42 C to 45 C so perhaps yours way revised upwards by a few degrees, too. So far, I am preferring this to the heat-waves of previous years where we seemed to get more days in a row of extreme heat and it was more humid. We seem to be hitting maximum temperature late in the day, too, which is better than hitting it at mid-day and staying there for hours before dropping.
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Lolie posted:How hot was it where you are today? It's been around 40 C here in the outer West today (still 39 C). I just checked the weather report and it said it was 31C today (as of about ten minutes ago). I don't know where that measurement was taken, because it has got to be at least 37 in the east where I am, I'm melting in my seat like a slab of butter left out on the asphalt. Tomorrow may kill me yet. Fun fact: I walk through Centennial Park most days, and on that 42C day, at one in the afternoon, I counted at least ten joggers.
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^ People are completely mad to exercise in heat like that. If it's the sun they're after there's plenty of that early in the morning when it's still reasonably cool.Lolie posted:How hot was it where you are today? It's been around 40 C here in the outer West today (still 39 C). Think it got to about 31-32.
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Can someone in australia see if its possible to cook sous vide in like a bucket of water left outside?
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