Re: bushfire and weather thread

by horace Thu 17 Jan 2013, 23:07

bad fires in west gippsland (close to melb)...a few houses lost but no injuries or worse reported...30C minimum overnight

by JGK Fri 18 Jan 2013, 04:58

45.8 C in Sydney today. Highest ever recorded.

Will the Australian side reach the temperature.

by horace Fri 18 Jan 2013, 05:08

JGK wrote:45.8 C in Sydney today. Highest ever recorded.

Will the Australian side reach the temperature.

i blame ljh for both...yesterday one of my cigars self immolated...ljh has served as a dire role model for those tories who run CA

by skully Fri 18 Jan 2013, 05:09

Shit!! Glad I'm up the coast. It's a balmy 28 with a lovely sea breeze blowing.

by Red Fri 18 Jan 2013, 05:12

Notice the five day forecast for Sydney and part of NSW doesn't make pretty reading. Bit like the scoreboard actually.

by Big Dog Fri 18 Jan 2013, 05:22

We actually had some rain today. Not enough to make a difference to my tanks but at least the grass stopped crackling when you walk on it.

by Red Fri 18 Jan 2013, 10:48

A body of a man has been found in a burnt out vehicle in one of the bushfire hot spots in Gippsland.

by Brass Monkey Fri 18 Jan 2013, 15:31

Still ent left work! Bout 8 inches of snow. Gonna have to walk for an age, without my hat and gloves. Terrible state of affairs.

by Big Dog Fri 18 Jan 2013, 19:33

Brass Monkey wrote:Still ent left work! Bout 8 inches of snow. Gonna have to walk for an age, without my hat and gloves. Terrible state of affairs.

Your'e not on Ilkley Moor i hope.

by Brass Monkey Sat 19 Jan 2013, 11:13

Would never go up that way without a hat.

by Growler Mon 21 Jan 2013, 11:03

Plenty of snow overnight here in Lincolnshire.

Couldn't help laughing this morning when I let the dog out. He was bouncing around the garden trying to avoid having his dangler dragging in the snow Very Happy

by Brass Monkey Mon 21 Jan 2013, 12:36

Not surprised. Couldn't think of much worse.

by Demelza Tue 22 Jan 2013, 06:39

We must be the only wet patch over the entire British Isles! It's been snowing as little as 8 miles away but, all we've had is RAIN!!!

by lardbucket Tue 22 Jan 2013, 11:37

So Cronishland is the UK's wet patch ...

by Basil Tue 22 Jan 2013, 19:35

It's fecking snowing again!

by skully Tue 22 Jan 2013, 20:02

That Global Warming is a bitch.

by Brass Monkey Tue 22 Jan 2013, 20:55

Basil wrote:It's fecking snowing again!

I wish for snow, ATM. It's all the most treacherous of ice round here... Have to walk like you're shitting yourself or you're down like Frank Bruno v Mike Tyson.

by skully Fri 25 Jan 2013, 00:37

Australia, you crazy biatch. Currently Eastern Victoria is ablaze with dangerous uncontained fires, while Rockhampton is surrounded by floodwaters after 300 mm of rain overnight.

by simkat Fri 25 Jan 2013, 01:19

Yes, my husband and son are stuck in Rockhampton. They went there yesterday to pick something up and now they'll probably be there all weekend. I wish I had gone with them yesterday. Sad

by skully Fri 25 Jan 2013, 03:09

Eek, that's no good, sk. So they are safe and well, just marooned?

by horace Fri 25 Jan 2013, 03:24

crazy day again here in melbourne

last 24 hours there has been a northerly gale off the desert...now there is a southerly gale off the southern ocean