Crikey it’s wet

[pmccarthy]

Wish it was wet now. Choppers and fires around us. Blowing a gale.

[facthunter]

 A taste of HELL. Nev

[pmccarthy]

I can’t believe choppers can fly in this wind.

[pmccarthy]

Heading our way.

[old man emu]

It's been so dry at my place since April that there is hardly anything in the paddocks to carry a fire. I'm even noticing that trees in the paddocks away from the creeks and gullies are starting to die.

[facthunter]

Heat, visibility,  gusts and lack of Oxygen are a problem for Aircraft. It's easy to overstress the Aircraft and have insufficient LIFT and power. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

1 hour ago, pmccarthy said:

Heading our way.

Stay safe.. hope it doesn't reach your property 

[facthunter]

Stay SAFE. Easier said than done in this RAW Country. Top half Flooded. The rest burning.. Nev

[red750]

Should change the thread name to Crikey it's Hot. Top temp today 42.9°, 44° at Tulla. They had to unload some cargo from some planes, they were too heavy for the heat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Density altitude. Worse at Alice Springs where the runway is at 1100 ft asl. Nev

[pmccarthy]

Dozens of houses lost in Harcourt and Sutton Grange, including my daughters. We are OK due to a wind change.

[facthunter]

VERY SAD  to Hear. I know the Area well. Great stress for Many in such times. Keep safe. Nev

[nomadpete]

Well I arrived back in Tassie and stepped off the plane into 29 degree heat (yeah I don't expect you lot to call that 'heat').

A total fire ban was imposed all weekend due to heat and expected wind up to 100kph. 

 

Tassie being tassie, whilst heatwave and wind stoked the fires ravaging the mainland, we got a cool weekend - dead calm and rain. CRIKEY IT'S WET!

 

Thankfully only one vegetation fire down our way and it started in the middle of the night. Promptly dealt with by a couple of crews.

Wilder fires are the new norm.

 

 

Edited January 10 by nomadpete

[facthunter]

Over 42 degrees in Sydney. Warmer seas Mean More ENERGY. . Lightning starts Fires. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

The Otways have gone from being on fire to intense flooding all within a week: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/car-swept-out-to-sea-in-wye-river-flash-flooding-20260115-p5nucc.html

[facthunter]

Typical Otway's. The Low Bush that grows there is a real fire Hazard even down to the sand and water. Nev

[old man emu]

It's still dry here. The other day I watched cloud move in and for a few minutes copped very strong winds and a downpour. At the end of those few minutes everything calmed down and the sky cleared.

[facthunter]

NOW it's FLOODED Big. What a change in so short a time? Coastal Western Victoria is a bit like that. Rarely Desert Dry. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

True, but I can't ever recall it ever resulting in cars being washed out to sea before.. 

[facthunter]

There's a few Rivers down along the Coast road where People CAMP and park cars. Maybe the  "New Normal" has changed. This will affect your flying also. Planning.  Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

There goes my next flight to Apollo Bay airfield (one needed to be approved to fly into there).

 

[old man emu]

Although I'm not getting any rain, I'm getting strong winds. It is strange. The wind seems to start about 10:30 pm and blows strongly until about 9:00 am the next morning. Then it weakens and goes calm for most of the day. When it is blowing, the wind speed is high enough to break limbs from trees.

[onetrack]

Here on the Left Coast, we've been getting a lot of very strong and constant winds, the last month to six weeks. You get periods of strong winds, then you get periods of relative calm. There was a long calm period in late Spring. The strong winds are caused by very deep depressions coming up against very strong high pressure systems. 

[facthunter]

Any time the Isobars are close together the Winds will be strong at that Location. HIGH pressure systems are More likely to be Over large Land Masses Perth was always Known as the WINDY city.  The Most  challenging Landings I've done 'Wind Wise' are there.. Nev

[onetrack]

Yes, reputedly the 3rd windiest city in the world. I don't mind the winds - at least the air comes from the huge, largely unpolluted ocean areas, of the Southern and Indian Oceans.

 

But I do find any strong constant winds in the wheatbelt, annoying and intrusive.