Crikey it’s wet

[facthunter]

YOU can still get these temps in March where you are. Nev

[onetrack]

Had a ripper thunderstorm from about 3:30 to 4:00PM today, we got a hammering with around 16mm of heavy rain. Very nice to be cooled down, after the temperature peaked at just over 40° at around 2:30PM.

[nomadpete]

Yeah. We had summer for a couple of days last week. Shorts & tee shirts.

Sunday the grey came back with wet air. Four degrees this morning!

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Four degrees this morning!

Farrrk.. You need to move here.. Balmy 8 degrees.. Lovely motorcycling weather.

[red750]

The last couple of days have been quite hot. So much so that I went and bought a small face fan that can sit beside the computer.

 

Today was our Men's Shed Christmas barbeque. It is overcast and the wind is so cold it would freeze the medals off a brass general. Fortunately the snags had been cooked by 10:45, so I had mine and was home by midday. My hanky was so wet you could wring it out.

 

 

 

 

[onetrack]

Nomadpete will no doubt be pleased to hear, that our minimum temperature last night, was a pleasant 23.8°!  And today is going to be a very pleasant 34°.  😄 

[facthunter]

Greasy SNAGS. No thanks. Dog only KNOWS what is in them and what it will do to your HEARTeries.

  O/T, Pleasant is what One becomes used to.  Ambient temps Above your Normal Body temp you have to be careful, A bit of activity always warms you up. It's easier to WORK in cooler temps.. After Wednesday, Here in South Vic we will get 37 degrees.  That's the heat from North Of Adelaide. Nev

[onetrack]

I used to work in 42° to 45° temps in the W.A. Goldfields when I was in my 20's and 30's. Plenty of water is the order of the day, even to splashing it on yourself to keep cool. The hottest day I can ever recall was the day in late February, about year 2000, when I went to an on-site agricultural auction on a farm near Eneabba ("Eenie-abba"). The area around Eneabba is large areas of scrubby sandplain, not much to offer by way of shade.

 

Eneabba recorded 48° that day, and there was a Northerly blowing like a furnace wind all day. The auctioneer was red-faced and the sweat poured out of him, but he kept going. The buyers were regularly running to a nearby concrete tank, which was situated slightly raised, and which had a tap about knee height. That tap and outlet was in constant use, all day! 

 

I can't stand major heat like I used to when I was young. I find I sweat more easily and more profusely now, than I did when I was younger. I call it a day when it starts getting close to 37° and 38°, and I set up an umbrella or portable gazebo when I have to work in the open, and it's over about 30°.

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[red750]

10 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Greasy SNAGS. No thanks.

You weren't invited.

[red750]

Here is the group around the barbie. Many didn't/couldn't come, particularly from the Thursday and Friday groups.

 

 

[facthunter]

Oyen used to record the Highest Temps in Victoria. NW Vic not far from Sea Lake and South of Mildura. .  Nev

[red750]

This is the fan I bought, only mine is black. About 9 inches high. $14. 3 speeds. Keeps the face and neck nice and cool. Rechargeable battery, plugs into a USB port or charger.  

[onetrack]

I went through Ouyen in May 2024. The Mallee bakery/cafe there is brilliant, I bought the best roast beef/salad roll there, that I've eaten in a long time. Fresh and tasty.

[facthunter]

Long way to go for it though. It wasn't THAT far from my Vineyard. Nev

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

Ambient temps Above your Normal Body temp you have to be careful,

That's a basic principle of thermodynamics. Heat moves from high to low. Normal adult body temperature is 37C. If the atmospheric temperature is less than 37C, heat flows from our bodies and we are cooled. Above 37C and heat flows into out bodies and we get hot. At 37C we just feel miserable. Humidity affects our cooling, as our means of cooling is to evaporate water from our skin and breath. If the humidity is high, then the evaporation rate is lower than if it was low. At the moment I'm sitting in 34C air temperature and 19% humidity. I simply feel warm. I do have a fan circulating the dry air in the room. I really cannot understand why people would think that a climate where the air temperature is around 30C, but the humidity is 80% or more is a pleasant climate. 

[onetrack]

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Long way to go for it though. It wasn't THAT far from my Vineyard. Nev

 

Yeah, I flew one way to Melbourne on May 6th, 2024 (a Monday), got picked up by a mate from Echuca (Strathallan, actually) - we drove out of town via Kilmore, stopped at a little place called Pyalong, to pick up a little 4 tonne Fiat truck I'd bought from a bloke there.

 

From Pyalong, we went to Echuca, where I stayed 2 nights with my mate and his missus, and did some minor maintenance on the truck, and loaded it up with 4 tonnes of Cat parts I'd previously bought from a bloke at Yarra Glen, E of Melbourne - which parts I'd already had delivered to my mates place at Strathallan, as the seller of the parts had sold his property at Yarra Glen, and I had to get them off the property by April 30th.

 

I left Strathallan on the Wednesday morning, travelled through Echuca, Cohuna, Kerang, Lake Boga, and Swan Hill. North of Swan Hill at Piangil, I struck out W to Manangatang and Ouyen, and then headed to the S.A. border.

Just before the border at a little place called Panitya, I headed N (to avoid border quarantine station holdups - I had no fruit or food aboard, anyway), and then W onto the Browns Well Hwy, turning N to head to Loxton.

Once through Loxton, it was on to Berri, then NW to Morgan and Burra. From Burra, I cut NW through Spalding and Gulnare to Crystal Brook - where I camped the night in the Railway Hotel.

 

Next morning I was on the road again to Pt Augusta, and then Westwards on the Eyre Hwy. I stopped at Eucla on the Thursday night, and stayed in the Motel.

Friday morning I was off again, in Norseman by 4:00PM, and then N onto Coolgardie, and then W towards Perth.

I stopped at Southern Cross that night (about 8:00PM) and stayed in a cabin in the local (Council-run, and highly recommended) Caravan park.

 

Saturday morning, I was off again, heading N to Bullfinch, where I turned West, and ran through Mukinbudin, Bencubbin, Koorda, Cadoux and Wongan Hills - and then to my yard in Calingiri - where I arrived just after midday, having done 3350 kms in just 3-1/2 days, in a 47 year old Fiat truck!

But the old Fiat ran like a champ, and never gave me a spot of trouble in the entire trip. It does 98kmh top speed officially, and I was often cruising over 100kmh.