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Post by Ratty on Jun 12, 2020 5:16:00 GMT
Water freezes on windscreens?  I have to travel a few hundred miles North to experience it Ratty - but it is true. Of course, in your case due to your antipodean location you would need to travel South to experience the effect  To be truthful, in an age gone by, we lived about five miles from the Brisbane CBD, near the bottom of a steep hill and I had to clean ice off the windscreen of my trusty Morris 1100 a few times. Cold hole, The Gap. |
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 12, 2020 10:42:03 GMT
I have to travel a few hundred miles North to experience it Ratty - but it is true. Of course, in your case due to your antipodean location you would need to travel South to experience the effect To be truthful, in an age gone by, we lived about five miles from the Brisbane CBD, near the bottom of a steep hill and I had to clean ice off the windscreen of my trusty Morris 1100 a few times. Cold hole, The Gap. Morris 1100 -- those were the days. Now the well fed German 'Mini' is bigger than the 1100 and probably even as big as a 'Maxi' |
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Post by Ratty on Jun 12, 2020 11:20:37 GMT
To be truthful, in an age gone by, we lived about five miles from the Brisbane CBD, near the bottom of a steep hill and I had to clean ice off the windscreen of my trusty Morris 1100 a few times. Cold hole, The Gap. Morris 1100 -- those were the days. Now the well fed German 'Mini' is bigger than the 1100 and probably even as big as a 'Maxi' Don't sell the Morrie short, Naut. I drove 'her' (ze?) home from Brisbane to Ipswich on the first day of the 1974 Brisbane floods .... grille-mounted distributor and all. |
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 12, 2020 11:42:09 GMT
Morris 1100 -- those were the days. Now the well fed German 'Mini' is bigger than the 1100 and probably even as big as a 'Maxi' Don't sell the Morrie short, Naut. I drove 'her' (ze?) home from Brisbane to Ipswich on the first day of the 1974 Brisbane floods .... grille-mounted distributor and all. I remember that and the amount of WD-40 you had to use. Then I got a Mini Countryman (the real one) and learnt I had to carry a 2ft length of 2by2 wooden batten to occasionally remind the tank mounted fuel pump to start - the famous SPIV test that fixed so much... (Short Period of Induced Vibration) |
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 12, 2020 13:10:36 GMT
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Post by nemesis on Jun 12, 2020 13:36:17 GMT
[/quote]Morris 1100 -- those were the days. Now the well fed German 'Mini' is bigger than the 1100 and probably even as big as a 'Maxi' [/quote]
Our old family car was a Rover100. Lovely red leather bench seats in which 8 of us could squeeze in for a family outing. Saw a restored one in recent years and could hardly believe it was so small.
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 13, 2020 19:06:59 GMT
"Meteorologist: “Can’t See Any Evidence” …Asks WMO What’s The Basis For Forecast Of “Another Record-Breaking Summer”?
On May 26, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) issued a press release warning of “another record-breaking heat season” for the northern hemisphere this summer, along with the potential of the COVID-19 pandemic amplifying the health risks of the hot weather.
Media outlets picked up the WMO warnings and spread panic stories of mayhem and climate breakdown among the public.
But veteran Swiss meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann, citing models from the ECMWF, doesn’t see any evidence of another “record breaking summer”. He tweeted:"More here> notrickszone.com/2020/06/13/meteorologist-cant-see-any-evidence-asks-wmo-whats-the-basis-for-forecast-of-another-record-breaking-summer/
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 14, 2020 1:50:04 GMT
It has been cooler than normal and windier than normal in the upper Midwest. Corn is looking rather ugly. Everything is behind. Growing degree days just not being produced.
Just looked at NDAWN and we are 50 GDD behind the 5 year average. The 5 year average is a cooling average.
My black walnuts are still expanding leaves. Spuds in the ground for over 20 days and not up. Normal is 12 days.
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 14, 2020 3:51:15 GMT
Here, the grass and the weeds took off like gangbusters about two weeks ago and appear to be headed toward the moon. I won't miss them.  |
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Post by acidohm on Jun 14, 2020 7:00:44 GMT
It has been cooler than normal and windier than normal in the upper Midwest. Corn is looking rather ugly. Everything is behind. Growing degree days just not being produced. Just looked at NDAWN and we are 50 GDD behind the 5 year average. The 5 year average is a cooling average. My black walnuts are still expanding leaves. Spuds in the ground for over 20 days and not up. Normal is 12 days. When was the last time you had a good growing season Sig?? Im sure you've had a bad 3 years at least? I hope not to be rubbing salt into a wound, just providing information here....but UK is having good conditions. Saturated ground early in the year led to substantial warmth/sun in spring. Currently showery, plantlife is getting everything it needs.... |
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 14, 2020 12:05:52 GMT
It has been cooler than normal and windier than normal in the upper Midwest. Corn is looking rather ugly. Everything is behind. Growing degree days just not being produced. Just looked at NDAWN and we are 50 GDD behind the 5 year average. The 5 year average is a cooling average. My black walnuts are still expanding leaves. Spuds in the ground for over 20 days and not up. Normal is 12 days. When was the last time you had a good growing season Sig?? Im sure you've had a bad 3 years at least? I hope not to be rubbing salt into a wound, just providing information here....but UK is having good conditions. Saturated ground early in the year led to substantial warmth/sun in spring. Currently showery, plantlife is getting everything it needs.... Has been awhile. The upper Midwest has been cooling for over 20 years. The most pronounced is the cooler springs. Pretty soon it will switch to summer. It is the abrupt change that is most noticeable. Seems once summer hits, always a race to beat winter. That has had abrupt entry for a number of years now. |
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Post by Ratty on Jun 14, 2020 12:31:16 GMT
[ Snip ] Has been awhile. The upper Midwest has been cooling for over 20 years. The most pronounced is the cooler springs. Pretty soon it will switch to summer. It is the abrupt change that is most noticeable. Seems once summer hits, always a race to beat winter. That has had abrupt entry for a number of years now. Did you feel this in ND, Sig? Abrupt Climate Change |
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 14, 2020 15:35:39 GMT
It's summer in Calgary excellent weather for a stampede (to Florida)
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 14, 2020 19:56:20 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 15, 2020 4:31:12 GMT
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