Oh, the weather outside is...
- Thread starter Valka D'Ur
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We were supposed to get snow this week but I hear its been called off.
I don't see much value in snow. It can be romantic during Christmas, but for me this is certainly not enough when compared to the difficulty of walking outside. When it snows it usually means I cannot go for my usual 1 hour walk, and if it snows for days the streets are filled with mud eventually.
I suppose it isn't that much of a problem if you live in US-style suburbs and use the car for everything in the first place, but in the city center... snow is just problematic.
I suppose it isn't that much of a problem if you live in US-style suburbs and use the car for everything in the first place, but in the city center... snow is just problematic.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
No that !!! is a lot of snow ! 
hobbsyoyo
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It's only fun to drive in when there are no other cars or buildings around.
Snerk
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Heat is chaos, cold is order
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Heat is chaos, cold is order
Sounds like a passage from Necronomicon or The Black Grimoire or Norwegian Metal Band !
It's only fun to drive in when there are no other cars or buildings around.
It's still fun
Josu
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Has not stopped raining since my last post in this thread
We can't stop here; this is Basque country.
Josu
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Yesterday and the day before the temperature was around 20C. I got a bunch of yard work done, and we had fun playing outside. Today we are expecting to get rain and then a significant snowfall with an accumulation of 5-7 cm and a temperature of about -10C by tonight with winds in the 50kph range. We all have the day off, so we'll stay inside, hoping to get enough snow to be fun, but not enough to mess with our evening activities - piano lessons and my son's basketball game.
Won't be too bad around me tomorrow but everything from the Shoalhaven 3 hours south of Sydney to the Hunter 3 hours north of Sydney is under Catastrophic fire danger tomorrow. They only added Catastrophic to the scale after 170 people died a decade ago in Victoria.
We're talking an area of maybe 6.5 million people, with a lot of urban fringe and regional towns very exposed, being preemptively warned to get away from at-risk areas tonight or early tomorrow.
"Catastrophic" means if a fire starts it's going to be incredibly dangerous, the fire will tavern faster than information. The warning level is don't even wait for specific locality advice, be packed in advance if you're in a fire prone area. If you're in a Leave as soon as you can if there's fire. It's also advised that you can't defend your home at all, and help may not come if there's fire.
They've closed about 600 schools, declared a state of emergency putting the boss of the fire service in charge of a lot of government powers. There's dozens of fires around, though there's currently not even any fires south of Sydney. Regardless they've still shut down hundreds of schools just precautionarily, because things could get dangerous very quickly if a fire starts. So they don't want any risk of children needing to be moved through fire risk areas.
One idiot with a cigarette, one arsonist, an electric spark, a lightning strike. Doesn't take much.
It's only November, it's not even a very strong El Niño year, but it's been dry and it's windy, and 3 people died immediately the north of the Catastrophic area on Friday. Those fires up north are about to get going again, and there's a couple of sizable towns there:
I think they're telling people on those towns on that second map (Coffs Harbour has 70 000 people) to get as far away from bushland as possible now before things pick up tomorrow. Advice like "do not be west of the highway".
It hopefully won't get this bad, but it's looking grim up there. Here's a vivid description of what an urban fringe next to a forest full of bomb trees can experience in these conditions.
We're talking an area of maybe 6.5 million people, with a lot of urban fringe and regional towns very exposed, being preemptively warned to get away from at-risk areas tonight or early tomorrow.
"Catastrophic" means if a fire starts it's going to be incredibly dangerous, the fire will tavern faster than information. The warning level is don't even wait for specific locality advice, be packed in advance if you're in a fire prone area. If you're in a Leave as soon as you can if there's fire. It's also advised that you can't defend your home at all, and help may not come if there's fire.
They've closed about 600 schools, declared a state of emergency putting the boss of the fire service in charge of a lot of government powers. There's dozens of fires around, though there's currently not even any fires south of Sydney. Regardless they've still shut down hundreds of schools just precautionarily, because things could get dangerous very quickly if a fire starts. So they don't want any risk of children needing to be moved through fire risk areas.
One idiot with a cigarette, one arsonist, an electric spark, a lightning strike. Doesn't take much.
It's only November, it's not even a very strong El Niño year, but it's been dry and it's windy, and 3 people died immediately the north of the Catastrophic area on Friday. Those fires up north are about to get going again, and there's a couple of sizable towns there:
I think they're telling people on those towns on that second map (Coffs Harbour has 70 000 people) to get as far away from bushland as possible now before things pick up tomorrow. Advice like "do not be west of the highway".
It hopefully won't get this bad, but it's looking grim up there. Here's a vivid description of what an urban fringe next to a forest full of bomb trees can experience in these conditions.
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Lexicus
Deity
I have an online friend from Leftbook who lives in NSW and she thinks the fires are likely going to spread to her area in the next few days. She posted today that she is getting asthma flare-up from all the smoke.
Let's burn the fossil fuel executives alive. This will create some carbon emissions, unfortunately, but so worth it.
Let's burn the fossil fuel executives alive. This will create some carbon emissions, unfortunately, but so worth it.
Josu
Emperor
Raining.
Again.
Forecast says that won't stop at least in next five days
Again.
Forecast says that won't stop at least in next five days
Well, we got the anticipated cold snap and about 5 cm of sticking snow, with a nice layer of ice underneath. Piano lessons and basketball were cancelled last night, although orchestra met for a while. The roads were nasty - I don't think anything was plowed or salted. The kids are off school today, though I am not. I walked to work today to avoid driving as the roads continue to be bad. The windchill was -20C, so I wore my winter coat and long underwear. The long underwear bottoms were great, but I should have worn my fall coat instead. Now we get a slow warmup back up to near 10C by the weekend.
