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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? We don't know what that is.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 13:46 |
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Psalmanazar posted:We don't know what that is.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 16:43 |
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Sorry Australia, you had a good run. But all good things have an end.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 17:49 |
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I'm headed for Darwin and Cairns at the end of May. Do you Aussies expect your apocalypse to at least be over by then?
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 18:06 |
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grover posted:It's the clear wet stuff you used to find in oceans and rivers and sometimes falling from the sky. Oh that. We only use that for maintaining vast expanses of green grass under the burning gaze of the southern sun.
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Uncle Jam posted:Sorry Australia, you had a good run. But all good things have an end. As an Okie, I extend my grizzled hand and sympathies to you Aussies when the oil dries up and you're forced to get decked out in sports gear and protect your dwindling gazzoline supplies much like us. Not sure about the dyed mowhawks as a fashion statement, though, but I like the razor boomerang thingy.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 18:58 |
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I changed it to C to fit in with all the ausheat talk, but it works just as well for F talkers: It's below freezing until Tuesday, and even then it's just freezing. I'd trade the baking death that Aussies have for this in a heartbeat.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 19:13 |
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Real answer: Sous vide is a way of cooking food at a constant temperature that's supposed to be AWESOME to cook a steak. Basically, instead of grilling a steak until the center reaching 50-65C or whatever your preference, you'd vacuum seal it and drop it in a 50C bucket and the entire cut of meat will be absolutely perfect, like a center-cut prime rib. Then a quick drop on a hot greased pan/a few passes with a flambe torche (or in your case the roof of a car) for the maillard reaction to turn the outside nice and tasty brown, and voila, perfect steak! Would be interesting to see if you could actually cook a perfect steak by just letting it sit in a bucket of water, and then tossing it on the roof of your car for a few seconds. If you try it, make sure to put it on youtube! 
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 19:22 |
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The Entire Universe posted:I changed it to C to fit in with all the ausheat talk, but it works just as well for F talkers: That's because the temperatures you posted are t-shirt weather!
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Pleads posted:That's because the temperatures you posted are t-shirt weather! That's because you're a Canadian and Canadians have evolved to make do with t-shirts and beer fat in handling the Arctic chill.
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grover posted:Would be interesting to see if you could actually cook a perfect steak by just letting it sit in a bucket of water, and then tossing it on the roof of your car for a few seconds. If you try it, make sure to put it on youtube! And no need to vacuum seal, you can just toss that poo poo in a ziplock and squeeze all the air out. Works great for any meat and veg, plus eggs. Japanese women soft-boil eggs sous vide in hot springs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen_tamago Perhaps australians can start doing the same, but in puddles outside their house.
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When I refill my evaporative cooler, the first bucket of water from my bathtub tap is always hot. Finally I've found a use for it!
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The Entire Universe posted:I changed it to C to fit in with all the ausheat talk, but it works just as well for F talkers: Yeah, as said above, this looks rather toasty. Total t-shirt weather, especially after a week or 6 months of -25 or colder.
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The Entire Universe posted:
You're joking right? The temperatures for next week are downright balmy for January in Nebraska.
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| # ? Jan 12, 2013 23:41 |
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So from what I'm reading about the situation in Australia, a lot of people see the need to do something, but the coal lobby makes it very difficult to legislate on global warming or anything like that (kind of akin to West Virginia). Is this right?
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:So from what I'm reading about the situation in Australia, a lot of people see the need to do something, but the coal lobby makes it very difficult to legislate on global warming or anything like that (kind of akin to West Virginia). Is this right? Pretty much. Look up Gina Rinehart. She's hilarious. Looks like we're in for a bit of rain later. I think the last time it rained properly was on Christmas Day and it feels like forever since then.
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Been walking around in a regular T-shirt since yesterday. Feels more like late spring than winter really here in NC. Temps are in the 70's and the humidity is making it just that much worse. It snowed pretty good the first year we owned our home here (2010) and I didn't have anything to deal with it so I planned ahead when spring came. Now all the stuff I bought (snow shovel, car chains, snow boots/gloves etc.) is sitting collecting dust. Everyone can't believe how warm the winter has been last year and this year. Everyone is so use to snow every winter here from what I've been told when I talk to people. At least I have the gear when I do need it I suppose. I haven't had a chance to keep up with the weather stuff the past few months but maybe the other weather goons can chime in and answer this. Has there been any talk about if this years severe weather will kick off to an early start? Edit: ... Record high temperature set at Greenville-Spartanburg SC... The high temperature today at the Greenville-Spartanburg international Airport was 73 degrees. This breaks the previous daily record high of 70 degrees which was set back in 2000. Just read that the west coast is seeing temps 20°F to 30°F below normal while the east coast is seeing 20°F to 30°F above normal  .
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The Lord Bude posted: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. Holy balls. I l lived in Brisvegas up until last year. I can't imagine how loving surreal that would be. A friend has a clunky old ghetto AC and we've shoved it in a window and hung blankets to seal up the. doorways. I may never go home again.
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the black husserl posted:And no need to vacuum seal, you can just toss that poo poo in a ziplock and squeeze all the air out. Works great for any meat and veg, plus eggs.
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kicktd posted:I haven't had a chance to keep up with the weather stuff the past few months but maybe the other weather goons can chime in and answer this. Has there been any talk about if this years severe weather will kick off to an early start? People try to draw comparisons between climate trends, El Nino/La Nina, and other things, but the atmosphere is too complex and dynamic to correlate long range climatology with mesoscale events. Anything beyond the next 240 hours or so is getting close to speculation. We still aren't very good at modeling the long-wave trough/ridge patterns that drive our weather systems. Anyone telling you that this will be a busy/slow year for tornadoes or that you'll have a huge outbreak sooner/later is just flipping a coin. As far as averages are concerned, Patrick Marsh does some of the best statistical analysis out there. Check out this video to see how tornado probabilities shift and intensify as the year progresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdR9kpQyuA
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kicktd posted:Just read that the west coast is seeing temps 20°F to 30°F below normal while the east coast is seeing 20°F to 30°F above normal  We're looking at nothing above 10C for a high in the Las Cruces/Alamogordo/El Paso area until at least Thursday. All the locals are in like three layers of clothes but I agree with the other folks about this being t-shirt weather. It's awesome, but there's been high wind and icing warnings all over the place in the southwestern US on and off over the past few weeks.So if you happen to be driving around this part of the country, you might wanna see if you're heading into an area with 40-60+mph gusts and ice all over the bridges or giant dust storms or all three.
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kicktd posted:Just read that the west coast is seeing temps 20°F to 30°F below normal while the east coast is seeing 20°F to 30°F above normal Don't worry, we'll be rid of that warmth once the front blows through! Here in Illinois we're even getting ice to sweeten the deal! 
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Obsurveyor posted:You're joking right? The temperatures for next week are downright balmy for January in Nebraska. I grew up somewhere other than Nebraska, where <60ish is cold. Still haven't gotten used to it, 5 years later. But I'll take the weather, people in Florida are basically Jersey shore washouts or horrible meth cooks.
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Helicity posted:People try to draw comparisons between climate trends, El Nino/La Nina, and other things, but the atmosphere is too complex and dynamic to correlate long range climatology with mesoscale events. Anything beyond the next 240 hours or so is getting close to speculation. We still aren't very good at modeling the long-wave trough/ridge patterns that drive our weather systems. Anyone telling you that this will be a busy/slow year for tornadoes or that you'll have a huge outbreak sooner/later is just flipping a coin. Does this answer for severe weather also apply pretty accurately for predicting temperature trends (or rather the lack of ability to predict)? Like so far we seem to be having a mild winter in Tennessee, does this make the rest of the winter likely to be mild as well or is it totally unrelated?
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kicktd posted:Just read that the west coast is seeing temps 20°F to 30°F below normal Sounds about right.
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kicktd posted:Just read that the west coast is seeing temps 20°F to 30°F below normal while the east coast is seeing 20°F to 30°F above normal UCI goon checking in... and it's going to be above average (about 70ºF) or so after these next few days.
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Picnic Princess posted:I'm headed for Darwin and Cairns at the end of May. Do you Aussies expect your apocalypse to at least be over by then? the heat should be over by then, and the cyclone season should be finished too, so yes you should be safe. On the other hand, you will be in (or near the end of) the "wet season" where it rains heavily every day for weeks non-stop. Apart from the usual threats from deadly snakes and spiders, black mould growing on everything will probably be your biggest problem. grover posted:sous vide that reminds me...it was so hot yesterday in my backyard (near Cairns), a foot-long giant skink jumped into a bucket of water and started doing laps...   I left him in there all day to keep cool and let him out again after dark
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 4 seasons in 1 day? let's do this.
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Just wait until next weekend, Nebraska.
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(Copied from D&D) Siding Spring Observatory (which is actually more then a dozen telescopes) has been evacuated due to a bushfire that has gone through it. The telescopes themselves should be fine, as after the destruction of the Mount Stromlo observatory in 2003 there was increased clearing around the buildings. About 8 hours ago  3 hours ago  1 hour ago  Amanda Bauer is running blog updates on what they know - The ANU 2.3m telescope is online and showing 20'c - Skymapper is not responding. - The 22m MOPRA radio telescope is not responding - Last webcam footage - Staff members housing, the astronomer lodges and/or the dining hall may be on fire based on webcam footage at 10pm Brad Tucker is also monitoring the webcams and site sensors - multiple site buildings on fire, and he "I fear for the 40in and Uppsala." - I think this would be the old ANU 40 inch telescope and the half metre Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope. He's currently providing updates to the RFS, as the whole site has been evacuated, and they still have access to multiple webcameras to gauge how bad the fire is there. One minor point of interest, is he is doing all this from his holiday spot in San Francisco. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26dyM-oK0uY evilbastard fucked around with this message at Jan 13, 2013 around 14:54 |
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Omaha goons, I understand. It's 2 Fahrenheit/-17 Celsius here in western Oklahoma. My heater is dying rapidly and I'm in a poorly insulated trailer. I heard from a friend in Miami, FL that it's 85 there. If I didn't have to be at work, I'd be on a plane to Florida without a second thought.
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evilbastard posted:(Copied from D&D) You didn't include one of the most interesting images from that series:  The bottom graph shows the temperature at the site, and you can see when the fire reaches the site there is a spike of over a 100 degrees.
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The Entire Universe posted:I changed it to C to fit in with all the ausheat talk, but it works just as well for F talkers: I'm assuming the top was a current temp for Saturday in Omaha and NOT Friday's forecast, since Friday was about 50 F in Omaha... Either way, about 20 F is not bad for January in Nebraska. I'll keep 20 F over melting roads, thank you. edit: Derf. Since you posted it Saturday, it's definitely the current temp for Saturday.
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evilbastard posted:Siding Spring Observatory That's a shame, even if the telescopes themselves are fine, the observatory will probably be knocked out of commission for a few months until new facilities can be constructed. The fire is going to have some interesting effects on NEO and comet surveys. If I remember correctly, Siding Spring is the only survey looking at the far southern sky. In US news, southern Illinois is starting to get a little bit of ice accumulation.
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Helicity posted:People try to draw comparisons between climate trends, El Nino/La Nina, and other things, but the atmosphere is too complex and dynamic to correlate long range climatology with mesoscale events. Anything beyond the next 240 hours or so is getting close to speculation. That's one reason I don't really count on anything anyone forecast past the next couple of days for that exact reason. I've been reading both sides of the debate for awhile and it seems a lot of people assume that an above average winter means an above average severe weather season. I'm not sure why or how that connection is made and even though last year was an above average winter for a lot of places it seemed a bit mild for severe weather, to me anyways and maybe I'm wrong as like I said I've been out of the game for awhile so I haven't quite caught up yet.
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It's probably a symptom of our planet overheating which will eventually kill us, but, for the moment, it's pretty nice having the windows open in the middle of January in Ohio.
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This Australian summer has broken me, I've acclimatized to all these warm days so well that now that it's only 28C and I'm looking for a jumper.
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Much cooler day today. Its only 30.5C here at Archerfield, QLD @ 1000hrs. Midnight was 25.2 C We'll probably get an afternoon thunderstorm. We're still a far way off the 1940 maximum of 43.4C but the blistering nights where the temperature doesnt drop below London-nana-killing level is troubling. The after 3 days of these firestorm temps the swimming pool feels like bathwater. Kommando fucked around with this message at Jan 14, 2013 around 00:11 |
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Black bucket and a 40+ day I will legitimately do the sous vide thing (I'm in Perth) and post pics
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