Isn't it funny how soon we forget what happened last year............

Submitted: Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 19:52

ThreadID: 65618 Views:4170 Replies:12 FollowUps:36

This Thread has been Archived

Willem

I am talking asbout the warm weather, which happens late January to mid March every year

Today at 7pm CSDST it is stil 40°

2008 We had 10 days of 40° heat here where I live in the Southern Flinders Ranges 538 metres above sea level. 'Twas then when we decided to buy two airconditioners. The media went to town in Adelaide exclaiming record heat levels (just about the real birth time of the Climate Change debate)

2007 I measured 14 days of 42° plus. We nearly expired. Had to move the beds away from the walls as the metre thick stone walls were hot to touch!

2006 We had two days over 35° through summer

2005 We had no days over 35°

2001 I recorded 48.6° in the shade under our back verandah!

BUT THEN in winter...........................

2005 Minus 10° for three days running

2006 Minus 8° for a number of days. Pipes burst, icicles everywhere

2007 A few days of Minus 5°

2008. Not that many days below minus 5° but in August we had six weeks or thereabouts where the daily temperature did nor reach above 8°. Plurry cold!!! I swore that I would not spend another winter here....lol

It's just another one of the weather cycles that we experience in our life time. Drought and extreme temps in the south of the Continent and mobs of rain in the north!

Cheers

Back Expand Un-Read 0 Moderator Share

Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 19:58

Reply By: Member - Axle - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:06

Reply By: Motherhen - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:19

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:19

Then there's the march flies, and the earth tremors.

You could be here -

Image Could Not Be Found

The water is still rising.Peterborough never looked like that!

Motherhen

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

AnswerID: 347138

Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:02

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:02

Don't you believe it Motherhen! The Borough has had a metre of water through the Main Street on a number of occasions.

It will cycle this way again one day :-)

Cheers

FollowupID: 615308

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:07

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:07

Was that in the big melt after the last ice age Willem??

Mh

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615311

Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:09

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:09

Hmmmm yer on something as well???

FollowupID: 615315

Follow Up By: bushy04 - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:41

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:41

Motherhen is that a caravan on the smaller of the bridges?
It is quite a photo, vechiles at each end level with the timber line.
Regards Bushy.

FollowupID: 615320

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:51

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:51

It looks like structure at both ends - i haven't been there. The photo doesn't have a very high resolution, and was borrowed from an ABC website where people display their pics of current topics.

Mh

Who doesn't believe it has really rained in Peterborough for years

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615322

Follow Up By: Axel [ the real one ] - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:44

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:44

Bushy04 + Motherhen . each end of the smaller bridge has a roofed over shelter with benches ,rubbish bins ect , small bridge is not part of the H/way and is used mainly as a fishing platform.

FollowupID: 615342

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:59

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:59

Thanks for the clarification Axel

Mh

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615358

Follow Up By: Willem - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:17

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:17

Motherhen

Peterborough Floods

FollowupID: 615371

Follow Up By: Willem - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:25

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:25

And
2007 rain

and
more

Want more...just Google it :-)

FollowupID: 615373

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:45

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 13:45

Unreal, Willem. 1941 must have been something to see. What is the average rainfall? You have certainly picked a place of climate extremes.

Mh

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615376

Follow Up By: Willem - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 20:18

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 20:18

Motherhen

The official average rainfall is 300mm per year

My measurements show:

2008 249mm
2007 375mm
2006 240mm
2005 371.5mm

Mainly winter and spring rains although they don't always come at the right time for the wheat growers!

Cheers

FollowupID: 615453

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 20:29

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 20:29

Around 12" in farmer language - not a lot. Probably still suffering low rainfall to counteract the dunking in 1941!

SA is an amazing state; much of it desert or semi desert, yet people are still farming.

After the cool days, suddenly last two days here have been hot, and it's heating up more, so any relief we can send your way will be short lived, if it gets there.

Mh

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615457

Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:35

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:35

To you both how many pints to the inch?

FollowupID: 615466

Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:37

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:37

POINTS.....

FollowupID: 615467

Follow Up By: Motherhen - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:42

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 21:42

Hi Richard - Glad you corrected your typo! 100 if my memory bank is wokring in this dreaded heat.

Mh

Motherhen

Red desert dreaming

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615469

Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 22:05

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 22:05

Mh you win money in the post.. ;-)

found this as well BOM

Cheers

Richard

FollowupID: 615476

Reply By: Isuzumu - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:20

Reply By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:35

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:35

Willem
Why not send an email off to the most incompetant Polly the useless ill informed jump on the band wagon tuppence Wong, and oh wow is she wong , I'm sure she could explain all the Climate change BS to you, and of course Baldy would back her up...
It makes me wonder why there was so much snow down south around Orange last year, Daughter sent some pics, sent chills up me spine it did,

.

gift by Daughter

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

AnswerID: 347143

Follow Up By: Isuzumu - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:44

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 20:44

like to check out her kitchen Doug bet it not all green hahaha

FollowupID: 615289

Follow Up By: Member - Mfewster(SA) - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 21:40

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 21:40

Nope, the climate change forecasts are right on the button. The wet bands are all moving south as per the warming models. The top end of Oz is getting warmer and wetter while the rain bands down south have been pushed further south leaving the south warmer, and drier. Snow in an area means zilch, the only thing that counts is averages on a global scale. That's the difference between climate and weather.

FollowupID: 615304

Follow Up By: Willem - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:19

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:19

Yeah Climate Change is there alright. Has been there for Eons. Its not something that Al Gore or Penny Wong thought up 5 minutes ago. Everything in this world changes constantly.

Not sure if the weather is related to your model Mfewter as the proponents say that the change will be there by 2050 or thereabouts. We have another 41 years to go gradually.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years time you will be able to cry victory if this is the case. Methinks that we are just going through another cycle and have been since the time of the Big Bang.

Next time the Big rains come to South Australia all the hooha about the drought, global warming et al will be forgotten.

FollowupID: 615317

Follow Up By: Member - Mfewster(SA) - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:46

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:46

Willem, of course it's true that climate change has always been there. But that misses the key point which is always overlooked by those that argue against the data. It isn't the fact that it is changing again, but the speed of change that is the critical factor. Change at the current rate is unprecedented, apart from times where there was an impact event, or something similar. Where this happened the results were catastrophic. We are getting changes now that (in geological time terms) approaching impact events, but without an impact event type cause. Where change happens at this kind of rate, the Earth's biological systems can't adjust and we have major extinction events. And our species with its reliance on energy and agriculture is looking very vulnerable.

FollowupID: 615321

Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:59

Sunday, Feb 01, 2009 at 22:59

Mfewster
Do you really understand what an Impact can do. I think you should visit my Impact webpage, have a look at the huge amount of research I have done on the subject over the last 6 years and in particular read the section right at the bottom of the page , then look for the report about Manicouagan in Quebec, another good read too is "The Day The Sands Caught Fire" actually good 4x4 part in it too, both down the left side

Impact webpage

.

gift by Daughter

Lifetime Member
My Profile My Blog Send Message

FollowupID: 615323

Follow Up By: Member - Mfewster(SA) - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:22

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:22

Doug, indeed I do understand what an impact event can do, I have been fascinated by them for a long time. And I have read and appreciate the info on these events on your site. You of all people should therefore understand the significance of the current changes. In geological time, a few hundred or a thousand, years are no more significant than the instant of an impact. What we have in place are changes that will have consequences similar to an impact because they are taking place at a rate (in geological time) that doesn't allow the Earth's biological systems to adapt. Incidentally, this year's southern state heatwave and drought is especially interesting because it has happening in a non El Nino period. Yes, we have had cycles of this type of weather before. In this part of the world they have usually been linked to the El Nino cycle. This being part of the low El Nino cycle, we might expect the droughts to have broken and to be having a cooler wetter period. Perhaps, relatively, this is a cool wet period down south. Should be real fun in SA when we enter the dry El Nino period again. As I am sure you know, the El Nino cycles run around 11 years and appear to be related to the sunspot cycle.

FollowupID: 615333

Follow Up By: Breakerman - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:02

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:02

I think Doug T. is right. I'd rather take his ideas and sources seriously than that stupid, arrogant and misinformed majority of the world's scientists. There must be something in it for them, I reckon. Probably on the take from someone. I' m sick of experts. Know alls!!!
Breakerman.

FollowupID: 615335

Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:30

Monday, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:30

I was reading somewhere the other day Mfewster that the first health warning about cigarettes came out some 400 years ago, yet even today millions still put there familes thru hell before they move on ahead of their time.