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Hit Manly beach in Sydney on Tuesday, did not feel like 40 degrees at all. A lot of people were saying it would be too hot for the beach, but it was actually cloudy so you didn't feel the sun pounding down. Around 1pm the heat and crowds started to pick up, but for a "hottest day of the year" it wasn't too bad.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 06:45 |
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Ssthalar posted:Jesus loving christ! The roads are melting!
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 06:52 |
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Current models are predicting TC Narelle to track right around the NW Australian coast, past Perth and around the SW (although as a deep low at that point) (For non-Aussies that would be the second time in a year a cyclone has gone that far south yet is supposed to be one of those "once in 50/100 years" things) Followed almost immediately by another TC developing near the NT border and making landfall near Broome. Looks like its going to be an interesting week... ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at Jan 11, 2013 around 07:40 |
| # ? Jan 11, 2013 06:54 |
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Hottest I lived through was a 44'C day here in Melbourne. That was really, really uncomfortable. Going outside was like opening my oven.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 07:07 |
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the black husserl posted:Can someone in australia see if its possible to cook sous vide in like a bucket of water left outside? Not quite sous vide, but there was a picture in one of our newspapers a few days ago of someone trying to cook eggs in a cast-iron pan on bitumen. It wasn't quite hot enough, but I bet if you had cracked the egg straight onto a car roof or something it would have cooked perfectly. 
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 07:10 |
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It got upto 48.7*C at my girlfriends place on the Eyre peninsula (South Australia) last week, can't remember which day Thursday maybe. Thankfully we just got the A/C fixed and reinstalled the day before and then a cool change in the evening dropped the temperature in half.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 07:19 |
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I'm in Adelaide and I sit in my underpants in my bedroom in front of an evaporative cooler when it's hot. It's fine except for the 5-10 days a year when it's hot and humid. South Australia seems to be getting off lightly this season, few fires, weather's been mild at about 30°C all week in Adelaide. Not looking forward to next Thursday, forecast says 39°C and afternoon showers. PS: ° is Alt+0176
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 07:53 |
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Dudes! posted:The roads are melting! They actually do melt to some degree and then when you finally get rain the roads become treacherous.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 08:20 |
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Tuesday (in the shade): (note it was still +36.5c at 4am) Tomorrow's forecast:  The good news is that I'm going out to photograph a football (soccer) game in the morning. Extra sunscreen is called for. Oh yeah. And more bushfires. Lots of bushfires.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 09:17 |
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Lolie posted:They actually do melt to some degree and then when you finally get rain the roads become treacherous. What they said. When I was a kid, I really enjoyed it when the roads melted. I lived in the outback where they weren't as well sealed (  ), and I'd run around the neighbourhood popping tar bubbles like it was bubblewrap....you make your own fun in the country.
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slinkimalinki posted: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. I had to look up what the Foehn Effect was on Wikipedia and was treated to this gem: quote:Furthermore, they are notorious among forest dwellers who find all their carefully hidden supplies, cooling in the river, have been washed away due to the river flow doubling in just a few hours. For anyone that doesn't know, foehn winds are a form of downslope winds. Air moving up a mountain slope will have its water condensed and fall as rain. As the air continues to move over the crest of the mountain and down the other side, the air is extremely dry. Hot dry air is one of the best ways to fuel a fire.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 12:55 |
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Goetta posted:That is uh a lot of snow. Is that somewhat typical for NL or is this a freak event? Definitely not typical, it is the most snow we've had in one snowfall since 1943. Usually we get 3 or 4 big storms per year that drop 25-30cm each. This was one of our hottest spring/summer/fall seasons ever, and meteorologists warned that there might be some strange things going on this winter due to that. I'd say an almost snow-less December and then a massive storm like this counts as strange. The city has said they won't declare a state of emergency though, since they have decent capabilities for dealing with snow. Pretty much the whole Avalon peninsula (most populated area) lost power this morning, but about half of the customers had gotten it back by 10:30am, including my parents house where I'm riding out the storm.
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Kanfy posted: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. I feel the exact same way. The winters in the northeast US have been depressingly lacking snow, but I prefer cold to hot weather 9.9 times out of 10. My ideal climate is one that is "baseball weather" for 6-7 months and then snowing for the rest of the year.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 18:33 |
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Oh jesus, Lismore today is going to be 40*c with 96% humidity today. No AC in my house. I am going to die.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 18:37 |
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There are some interesting photos coming out of St John's via Twitter
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 19:00 |
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Corridor posted:Oh jesus, Lismore today is going to be 40*c with 96% humidity today. No AC in my house. I am going to die. From what I've been reading, the whole reason we're stuck in this weather pattern is that the wet season hasn't started yet. 96% humidity sounds like rain might be on its way. gently caress the far North Coast though - I'd rather live through the 45 C we're expecting here today than anything above 30 C in Lismore.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 19:04 |
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Corridor posted:Oh jesus, Lismore today is going to be 40*c with 96% humidity today. No AC in my house. I am going to die. Are you sure about that? Because that would correspond to dewpoint of about 38 degrees C, and the world record dewpoint was 35 degrees set at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on July 8, 2003.
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Zeta Taskforce posted:Are you sure about that? Because that would correspond to dewpoint of about 38 degrees C, and the world record dewpoint was 35 degrees set at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on July 8, 2003. The RH in the region was very high overnight, but it typically drops dramatically during the day as the temperature rises. For some reason, the last readings were about midnight. http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/observations/nswall.shtml#NR
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Zeta Taskforce posted:Are you sure about that? Because that would correspond to dewpoint of about 38 degrees C, and the world record dewpoint was 35 degrees set at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on July 8, 2003. Sorry, I got some numbers wrong. 94% humidity and 38*c. Dew point of 22 or something. No wind. But seriously, I am going to die. Lolie posted:From what I've been reading, the whole reason we're stuck in this weather pattern is that the wet season hasn't started yet. 96% humidity sounds like rain might be on its way. gently caress the far North Coast though - I'd rather live through the 45 C we're expecting here today than anything above 30 C in Lismore. It was 30 the other day and it was loving unbearable. Apparently there's rain tomorrow but before that there's a glorious day of hell awaiting me. Right now at 6:30am it's pleasantly cool and slightly breezy.  Mother Nature toys with me.
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Corridor posted:Sorry, I got some numbers wrong. 94% humidity and 38*c. Dew point of 22 or something. No wind. I used to go and hang out at the Square all day when I lived in Lismore and it got that hot. Go spend the day somewhere that has commercial air-conditioning. I honestly feel your pain. Even though I grew up in a desert region, in any other place I find high temperatures pretty much intolerable.
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Wki posted:
That's the winds that I keep referring to as Chinooks. That's the local Native word for "Snow Eater". I giess the story goes that the winds were thought to be a spirit that would consume all the snow. In winter, the winds will raise our temperature above freezing and melt everything. In the summer they're not as noticable for obvious reasons and not a lot of people here realize they even occur then.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 19:49 |
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Dudes! posted:The roads are melting! I seriously hope you are joking, but deep in my heart, I know you are telling the truth. 
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 21:10 |
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56F in Detroit right now, less than a week ago it was sitting around 12-25F. Middling-to-hard rains periodically last night and throughout the day. All that nice snow that was on the ground is done, as is the ice.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 22:01 |
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Goetta posted:There are some interesting photos coming out of St John's via Twitter Pretty sure that picture has been circulating on the internet for about ten years or so.
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Shima Honnou posted:56F in Detroit right now, less than a week ago it was sitting around 12-25F. Middling-to-hard rains periodically last night and throughout the day. All that nice snow that was on the ground is done, as is the ice. I've been driving around with my windows down like it's summer. This is great.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 22:08 |
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It started raining about five minutes ago but it seems to have stopped. It's all dark clouds outside though.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 22:19 |
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Yeah, it's very overcast here in Western Sydney, which is unexpected. When I got up this morning there was a heat haze and the light was a funny colour. It's already over 35 C up the central coast so we're probably still going to get the extreme high today but at least the cloud cover is keeping it comfortable for now. What I hope we don't get is just a little bit of rain - that will just make it steamy without cooling everything down.
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 22:33 |
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Things are strange here in Memphis as well. 72 was the high today yet the high on Monday is supposed to be just above freezing. So confusing
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| # ? Jan 11, 2013 22:38 |
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Clouded over on the North Shore too and it feels a little cooler and fresher. It was at 30c by 9am. We'll see how hot it does get. Hopefully the winds from the coast will be strong enough to keep the northwest hot wind at bay.
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Woah, big clap of thunder just now. Let's hope it heralds some rain because lightning, extreme heat and tinder-dry ground fuel are a bad combination.
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Time Cowboy posted:Pretty sure that picture has been circulating on the internet for about ten years or so. Similar pictures have been around for awhile, but that could have been taken today. Here's one from today that my next door neighbour took:  It's mostly basement doors that get like this, which is pretty bad if you happen to live in a basement apartment.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 00:01 |
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Grey skies in the east too. Please please please let there be a storm 
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 00:17 |
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BoM has revised the expected Sydney maximums downwards. They're now predicting 39 in the West (we'll only hit that if the cloud breaks up - it's around 30 now) and 31 in the city. We had a sprinkle of rain a while back. As long as the clouds keep the heat at bay, I don't care much if we don't get rain (because if we get rain, we need to get a lot of it). Sydney radar isn't showing anything significant in the way of storm cells. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR713.loop.shtml#skip
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 00:24 |
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 Here's a pic of the fires this week (sourced from http://sentinel1.ga.gov.au/Sentinel/imf.jsp )
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 04:25 |
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The temperature in the outer West is dropping now after a high of ~38 C. I never thought I'd be grateful for an "only" 38 degree day. The revised 7 day forecast is for a few days of around 30 before the temperature starts rising towards 40 again from about the middle of next week. drat we need the wet season to start soon. It's amazing we haven't had much worse fires than we have so far after two very wet summers.
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I'm halfway between Newcastle and Cessnock and it peaked at 46.7°C (116°F) at about 3:20pm. It was 30.6°C (87°F) right in on the coast (Newcastle Nobbys on the NSW observations list) and 40.8°C (105°F) at Cessnock. Holy gently caress it's hot. At least it's fairly dry as well, my weather station doesn't read below 10% humidity and it was showing nothing. Now it's dropped to 43.7(110°F) and the humidity's up to 25%. Tonight is going to be another poo poo nights' e: Oh yase, 10 degree drop in about the last half hour, I was outside with my feet in the pool so I barely noticed the difference but it's so much more bearable now. Ignimbrite fucked around with this message at Jan 12, 2013 around 05:30 |
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Maelstrm posted:
Living near the city centre it's hard to believe the entire country is on fire.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 05:21 |
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I did some light work in a 50C building once (read tin shack with steam heating on pipes for chemical production in mid summer). Even acclimatized to 40C temperatures I quickly lost all thought capacity, as I was completely befuddled by how to clean off my boots with a hose. After that shift I had lost so much salt I couldn't go to sleep until I ate 2 jars of salsa and a bag of chips. I can't imagine a whole area full of everybody being 50C. Every part of me was yelling that there were far better places for me to be.
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Got some snow here in the San Joaquin Valley, CA this evening (no accumulation) - a fairly uncommon (about once every 10-15 years) event. Snow/ice caused the Grapevine (portion of I-5 that runs north of LA into central California) to close overnight, stranding hundreds of cars for about 16 hours. FYI NWS is seeking comments on this new way of showing the graphical forecasts. http://preview.weather.gov/graphical/
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Octy posted:Living near the city centre it's hard to believe the entire country is on fire. Here in Brisbane we've been able to smell the fires in the air for a few days now. According to the paper, there are currently 1 million square kilometers of land in the state of Queensland alone on fire. (photo taken from the courier mail: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...f-1226552339377)
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