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Post by twawki on Sept 19, 2008 4:40:57 GMT
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Post by twawki on Sept 19, 2008 4:45:06 GMT
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Post by Acolyte on Sept 19, 2008 5:44:17 GMT
For a real laugh about how AGW is making Australia uninhabitable, check out Australia's Variable ClimateScroll down past the 'discontinued' to the poster - I printed it out & put it up in the work kitchen & got very surprised reactions - most people simply think that if enough 'authorities' say something it must be true. Here's the small version of it...
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kaz
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Post by kaz on Sept 19, 2008 12:09:29 GMT
Hi Acolyte, I downloaded the poster, very intersting...and I guess the main observation I can see is this.....what average!!! we are either in drought or in drench and there are very few years where we are ever "average". I'm also very glad that I am not a farmer. Thanks for the link.
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Post by Acolyte on Sept 19, 2008 12:46:19 GMT
It's interesting how you can see the el Nino events - red in the East seems to correspond to them. But when you stand back from the picture & get an overview, the red east ISN'T concentrated in the latter years of the 20th C at all.
Anyone else have a similar set of pictures for other countries?
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Post by kiwistonewall on Sept 20, 2008 3:45:16 GMT
While the official position is that Australia is warming, this shows that the minimums have been colder than expected over most of Australia. I still think the "mean" is a very poor indication of temperature. If the temperature was 5C all day except for a burst of sunlight which raised it to 15 for 2 hours, the mean would be 10. We all "see" and feel that it is colder, but we have a crude measure of temperature over a day (high+low)/2 = mean, which is no measure of how "cold" or "hot" it is (at least to plants, animals and humans!)
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Post by twawki on Sept 20, 2008 8:09:11 GMT
so kiwi i know you feel colder but the records say what you feel is wrong and you need to trust the records because er umm hmmm well er ummm
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Post by kiwistonewall on Sept 20, 2008 8:40:20 GMT
Well I might fly back to NZ and catch the Summer Snow! since they intend to reopen on Christmas day as they think the snow will last until then. A Kiwi White Christmas. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10533086&ref=rssThe Kiwi is an aggressive little bird, which can't fly, has a kick like a mule, and (so it can poke its beak into everything) has its nostrils on the tip of its beak. Like most New Zealanders, proud to be a Kiwi! ;D
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Post by twawki on Sept 21, 2008 3:08:02 GMT
it will be interesting to see if it all melts during summer
we got our hottest day of the year yesterday - 30 d celcius - gee I remember years ago when we used to easily get over 40 d c - repeatedly
will be interesting to see what the next few months bring with the SOI still strongly positive
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Post by mhr3501 on Sept 22, 2008 14:06:29 GMT
The headline reads "S Africa faces 'winter wonderland'; snow, coldest September temps in recorded history". The headline links to... www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20080921084615870C810928From the article... "Parts of KwaZulu-Natal were transformed into a "winter wonderland" after snowfalls blanketed several areas of the province. Temperatures plummeted into the low teens, with residents of Kokstad and Giants Castle waking up to 0C. Durban experienced its coldest September night in recorded history on Friday night."
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Post by douglavers on Sept 22, 2008 23:18:41 GMT
Quote from The Australian:
"Conditions have been similarly extreme on the other side of the continent, although in the west the mercury has been plummeting. Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Mark Paull said Perth experienced its lowest September minimum on record yesterday when the temperature dropped to a mere 1C at 5.54am. The overnight minimum is expected to climb to normal spring levels -- about 12C -- by Thursday."
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Post by twawki on Sept 25, 2008 13:24:23 GMT
Winter returns to Western Australia Jessica Trevena, Thursday September 25, 2008 - 18:02 EST
A slow moving cold front has dropped temperatures more than 10 degrees through southwest WA and brought the best rain in months.
Perth recorded 21mm to 9am this morning plus another 12mm today, their best rain in 2 months.
Albany, on the southern coast has recorded 10mm in the same period. They also recorded a maximum today of just 13 degrees, 4 below average and a massive 14 degrees less than the 27 degrees they recorded on Wednesday. Perth reached just 17 today, more than 8 degrees less than the 25 degrees recorded yesterday.
Rainfall totals southwest of about Geraldton to Albany were the best since July, with widespread falls of 15 to 30mm.
Further rain is expected tonight, with another 10 to 20mm likely in some areas by Friday afternoon. Rain will also spread inland to the Central Wheat Belt, most of which has so far only seen small totals of less than 5mm.
- Weatherzone
© Weatherzone 2008
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Post by Acolyte on Sept 25, 2008 20:33:30 GMT
Well, if the jarrah isn't too dry, here's what we do... It's gotta be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide & 30 cubits high, OK?... ;D
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Post by kiwistonewall on Sept 25, 2008 22:17:19 GMT
Do we have to put a couple of cane toads on board? Can't we leave them behind?
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Post by Acolyte on Sept 25, 2008 22:47:33 GMT
Do we have to put a couple of cane toads on board? Can't we leave them behind? Look at it this way... we're gonna be in this boat, crammed in with snakes 'n things, & we're gonna be bored. lick a cane toad & boredom goes away in a nice rush of pretty colours - then once we have dry land, we kill the toads... ;D
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