Celebrating Positives (offset of the Gripes Thread)

[nomadpete]

We - Marty & I - are 43 degrees south which means interesting weather is the norm. Since this is not the Gripes thread, I  failed to mention the (one) warm day was accompanied by gusts of 40kts+ and rain showers. Which has been  cycling daily for a couple of months, without the sunshine. All next week is expected to be the same.

Edited yesterday at 06:03 AM by nomadpete
FFS fix

[facthunter]

Called the "ROARING 40's". Strong westerly winds.  Nev

[old man emu]

I wish you Southerners and East Costers would share a bit of that wet weather into my neck of the woods. It's been dry here for a lonhg time. Tonight's weatehr radar suggests a bit of light rain (<5mm) might arrive, but there doesn't seem to be indications of greater falls. Perhaps Central NSW is heading for a drought.

[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, old man emu said:

I wish you Southerners and East Costers would share a bit of that wet weather into my neck of the woods. It's been dry here for a lonhg time. 

Be careful what you wish for......

 

 

 

But I  hope you get some gentle rain. We can easily spare it.

[nomadpete]

12 hours ago, facthunter said:

Called the "ROARING 40's". Strong westerly winds.  Nev

I'd never thought much about that old saying about "roaring 40s" before.

 

But now I realised that 40 degrees south also = 40 kts. Which sure does roar through our trees.

 

And I just re-read David Lewis's book 'Ice Bird' about sailing around antarctica. He tells me 50 degrees south = 50 kts.

[facthunter]

NO reason for that to be. It does move with the seasons. Sailors used it to advantage  when Sail was the go.  Nev

[pmccarthy]

We are sitting by Rocklands Reservoir in the Black Range. It is cool, but ok by the campfire.

[onetrack]

It looks like the kind of place that sovereign citizens would hide out in. 👮‍♂️

[old man emu]

5 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Be careful what you wish for......

Absulutly poured down! I counted at least 10 raindrops on my car's windscreen this morning. I had to throw a bucket of water over the screen to join up the drops so I could use my wipers.

[onetrack]

You might get something in the next week or two, OME - there's a series of tropical NW/SE cloudbands forming across Australia, with Kalgoorlie copping it yesterday from one of them.

Kalgoorlie recorded its heaviest-ever October rainfall - 60mm. However, official weather records only started in Kalgoorlie in 1939, which surprises me, as official weather records usually start in the mid to late 1800's.

 

https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/vast-northwest-cloudband-brings-record-rain-to-was-largest-inland-city/1890923