Extreme Weather
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@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Get. Fucked.
Yikes.
Was hail in Howard just west of us earlier, but no reports it was that size.
Nasty storm heading our way currently:
Hopefully the Hervey Bay Dome does its job (local name for the weird phenomenon that storms from virtually any direction blow themselves out - or lose all intensity - just before reaching the Bay. It's quite common and quite uncanny.)
Don't like the black shadows in those radar images.
Just the usual spring storms ...
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Interesting in the central west of NSW where they'd just been pounded again.
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
@NTA said in Extreme Weather:
Maude is on the Hay Plain and it's very fucking flat out there. Water has nowhere to go
You lie. There's nothing on the Hay Plain.
There's a metric fuckload of water right now.
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good times at moment in the North Island...
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@taniwharugby That must be some sort of record. I don't think we've had a 1-20 yr event for at least 2 weeks.
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@dogmeat said in Extreme Weather:
@taniwharugby That must be some sort of record. I don't think we've had a 1-20 yr event for at least 2 weeks.
Old terminology. "Annual Exceedence Probability".
Old "1 in 20" is now 5% AEP. So people don't say stuff like that.
(I recall back jn the early 80s Southland copping a second "1 in 100 year flood" 2 weeks after the first ...).
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was shocked to see over the last week how warm the european winter has been in some places, ski fields closing in January is huge!
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@Kiwiwomble And yet across the pond it was so bad that friends on a skiing trip in NW USA couldn't go outside. Resorts closed to prevent people dying.
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Yes, it's all a bit strange up here weather wise at the moment.
Across Europe the snow has all been washed away by rain, the few resorts which are open are completely rammed, with hour long queue's for the lifts. Fuck that. We were debating risking Tigne in first week of April, taken that off the table now. It will be a choice of shit conditions, or huge queue's. No interest in either.
As for the UK ... after a belting summer of no rain and genuine warm comfortable weather, followed by a mild Autumn (6th November, I was having a beer outside in a t-shirt at 10pm ...) we had a huge freeze for two weeks in December where the temp didn't get above zero. And although there has been a large step up in rain, I wouldn't say it's been THAT wet. Yet, every time it rains now there is flooding / standing water everywhere. Seems the water table is ridiculously high.
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Almost not really one for the "Extreme Weather" thread, but crikey it's been mild this summer. Extremely mild.
Especially overnight.
So far have missed any real humidity. Still got duvet on the bed (in normal summer even the sheet gets kicked off), fan (no aircon in bedroom) only on 2 (not buffeting the fuck out you on 3) and often times having to wear tee shirt.
Current temp of 25.3deg and 72% humidity (8pm) seem normal, but it's just so comfortable.
Unseasonably so.
May get warm and damp as Ex-TC Ellie drifts past over the next few days (after royally fucking up the Kimberley - worst ever floods over there), but seems as if La Nina and Indian Ocean Dipole, instead of drowning Qld (like it did to the Murray-Darling, Vic etc), has kept us cool.
@MajorRage am convinced anthropogenic climate change is a thing (just don't tell @ w i n g e r), but have my doubts about the solutions proposed by the extremists.
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