Hot today 104 degrees and expect to be triple digits all week.

Here comes the pain.

The Bureau of Meteorology has urged Aussies to brace for a heatwave that will hit every mainland state and send temperatures into the 40s.

www.news.com.au/national/weather/australia-weather-mainland-braces-for-sweltering-heatwave/news-story/ef611a1b5fa79a9539714e3f48a60b08


Yippee!

Meant to be 42c (107.6 f) today, thankfully I have a very short walk to work but can seeing it being incredibly busy. Definitely not going anywhere beforehand.

It's odd. Warning for heat waves and it's been overcast and raining every now and then since the alert.

The humidity is high, as you'd expect.

Any of you blokes in FNQ?

I was on holiday there a month ago, Port Douglas is a beautiful place.

FNQ is obviously underwater at the moment.

This could easily be a political thread. The new QLD Premier is on TV right now talking about renewables.

This will likely be eaten up by Sky After Dark, as the easiest way to win over country folk is flying into the storm, quite figuratively. The easiest way to lose their support, is to play on - politics as usual.




" Take dingy. Go to Mum's. Kill Bazza—"Sorry"—grab Shazza, go to the Euramo, have a nice cold XXXX, and wait for all of this to blow over. " 

" the driest, hottest summer on record " - BOM.

(Sydney Airport)

We had a massive storm here (yeah, so much for the " hottest, driest summer on record " it's been cold and wet) and it's astonishing how quickly the local community Facebook pages turned into conspiracy theory cooker propaganda, and how many people believe the recent rain events in Australia are a result of seeding, weather control and chem trails.

What has happened to people? It's like the pandemic turned half the world into idiots.

Jan 2, 2024 21:43:59 GMT NATH45 said:

We had a massive storm here (yeah, so much for the " hottest, driest summer on record " it's been cold and wet) and it's astonishing how quickly the local community Facebook pages turned into conspiracy theory cooker propaganda, and how many people believe the recent rain events in Australia are a result of seeding, weather control and chem trails.

What has happened to people? It's like the pandemic turned half the world into idiots.

I blame the Internet being too popular. It was better before the Internet was cool.

Flood alert for the majority of the state once again.

September BOM prediction : " driest and hottest summer on record "

Revised BOM prediction : " it will rain for weeks... "

The snow and cold have reached us. -23C today as a high. -37C overnight. Friday night it's supposed to reach -41C overnight. Though really anything past -30C is just stupid cold.

Goodness. Here's me thinking the 2-4C in the UK is cold...to me anything past 0C is just stupid cold :lol:

Note to self: invite Emperor to Winnipeg in February to "hang out" with me and Lony to watch him freeze to death.

Surely taking a single step outside would cause you to freeze to death in those kind of temperatures? It's incomprehensible!

Jan 10, 2024 17:46:36 GMT Emperor said:

Surely taking a single step outside would cause you to freeze to death in those kind of temperatures? It's incomprehensible!

We BBQ still in -30. :lol:

You know it's bad when it's a balmy -9C in Winterpeg. 

We got a foot of snow yesterday and are being forecast another 15 inches on Friday. I don’t live in Winnipeg so I don’t know what to do with all this snow and neither do the snow plows.

Jan 11, 2024 0:59:45 GMT mikec said:

We got a foot of snow yesterday and are being forecast another 15 inches on Friday. I don’t live in Winnipeg so I don’t know what to do with all this snow and neither do the snow plows.

Truth be told, we actually don't get that much snow. The problem is that any snow we get in between November and March stays on the ground because it's always so damn cold, until it finally melts in April. The accumulation of 5 months of snow makes it seem like we get more than we actually do. 

But yeah...snowed a bunch the past few days. Hooray. 

We got about 10cm in 2 days which is the normal snowpack we hope to get in November, so it's late this year by a bunch and less snow than we usually have by now. I'm not complaining. but it will have ramifications in the Spring/Summer.

As my dad would say it's 'colder than a witch's tit' out today. It's -37 right now and they say tonight it's supposed to go down to -47. I'm supposed to have tickets for some string quartet thing but I am thinking it might get cancelled which is fine since my car is pretty much a solid block right now.

It's fricken cold here! -35 right now.

Jan 12, 2024 17:50:59 GMT CM Punk'd said:

It's fricken cold here! -35 right now.

I hear ya. Just downright disrespectful out.
 

It’s cold!

Jan 10, 2024 17:50:19 GMT iron maiden said:

Jan 10, 2024 17:46:36 GMT Emperor said:

Surely taking a single step outside would cause you to freeze to death in those kind of temperatures? It's incomprehensible!

We BBQ still in -30. :lol:

You know it's bad when it's a balmy -9C in Winterpeg. 

You jinxed us iron maiden !! Our balmy -9c turned into -37c when I was shovelling snow and left for work this morning.

This weekend is going to hit -7 F (-22 C). Boo.

Jan 12, 2024 20:25:44 GMT Gyro LC said:

This weekend is going to hit -7 F (-22 C). Boo.

Yeah I get it here on my mountain midweek… gonna really be cold

Jan 12, 2024 20:25:44 GMT Gyro LC said:

This weekend is going to hit -7 F (-22 C). Boo.

-13F here. I’m not doing any metric conversions!

Jan 12, 2024 21:57:48 GMT mikec said:

Jan 12, 2024 20:25:44 GMT Gyro LC said:

This weekend is going to hit -7 F (-22 C). Boo.

-13F here. I’m not doing any metric conversions!

-25C

Jan 10, 2024 17:46:36 GMT Emperor said:

Surely taking a single step outside would cause you to freeze to death in those kind of temperatures? It's incomprehensible!

You're not far off. It's brutally cold. You feel it in your bones within seconds of stepping outside unless you are properly dressed.

When it gets this bad I drive with winter gear on (or multiple layers with insulated underwear/undershirts) when I am outside of the city because if the unthinkable happens and I crash, if I am knocked unconscious and my vehicle shuts off, I will freeze to death before any help will arrive. I used to travel to remote camps in northern Saskatchewan by plane and they required that all passengers dress in winter gear in case of an emergency landing for the same reason. They wouldn't let you on the plane unless you were wearing a winter coat, hat, gloves and boots at a minimum.

My work vehicle doesn't have a block heater because my old boss was a fucking moron (I'm getting one installed next week, just in time for the cold snap to be over), so I have to remember to start my truck every couple hours while on site so it doesn't freeze. Last thing I want is to be stuck here when work is over. I remote start it so it runs before I go to bed and in the morning I just cross my fingers and hope it starts. So far so good. I'd rather be stuck at home than at work.

My kids stayed home yesterday and today. Mrs RT got their homework on Wednesday and said fuck this. We weren't the only ones either. A lot of students stayed home yesterday and today from school. Once it dips below -20C they cancel any outdoor activities, which is awesome in the winter, having 30 young kids with coughs trapped inside for 8 hours. Today some schools closed and some bus lines were canceled. A lot of districts just said fuck it, stay home.

Winterpeg finally starting to live up to it's nickname and I fucking hate it.

A comparatively balmy 45F here. We're supposed to get a lot of rain tonight though so that's not cool.

Living through our blizzard warning till tomorrow. Chiefs tickets are ridiculously cheap for tomorrows game (maybe 75% cheaper than they’d be for a regular season game), but the drive is keeping me from going through with it. Bummer.