The Weather Thread
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- mad94d
Yeah, 42C tomorrow, 43C Saturday, 44C Sunday. Our turn
Not as bad as you guys though, I hope
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I want to give England a big hug, its so cool to see you guys all excited about snow. Even though I absolutely detest it on occasion, you don't really realize how special it is until people who normally don't get it... Do.
Its dreadfully cold here again today, parts of the state are in a windchill advisory. The good news is that the sun is out, and thats nice for a change, but we've still got another day or so until the warm temps come back. It will be above freezing (and sunny!) tomorrow, and for that, I am very excited.
Its dreadfully cold here again today, parts of the state are in a windchill advisory. The good news is that the sun is out, and thats nice for a change, but we've still got another day or so until the warm temps come back. It will be above freezing (and sunny!) tomorrow, and for that, I am very excited.
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More snow is expected and guess what?
The grit has run out!
This country is hilarious, we get about 4-5 inches and everything goes mental. The emergency services has received 15,000 calls this week purely for reports of people throwing snowballs. There was a clip on the news of a guy in a BMW 3 series spinning the wheels up like mad trying to get moving. Everyone seems to think that revving the engine hard is the way to go.
Then there's that girl who was killed by sledding down the hill at 50mph. The entire country is made up of bloody idiots.
Having said that, I refused to go into work today as it was too dangerous to get my car off the drive. I have to head off to work at 4.30am and it was snowing very heavily when I woke up. There was a thick layer of snow over last night's ice. No way I'm driving a tiny, light hatchback in that weather!
The grit has run out!
This country is hilarious, we get about 4-5 inches and everything goes mental. The emergency services has received 15,000 calls this week purely for reports of people throwing snowballs. There was a clip on the news of a guy in a BMW 3 series spinning the wheels up like mad trying to get moving. Everyone seems to think that revving the engine hard is the way to go.Then there's that girl who was killed by sledding down the hill at 50mph. The entire country is made up of bloody idiots.
Having said that, I refused to go into work today as it was too dangerous to get my car off the drive. I have to head off to work at 4.30am and it was snowing very heavily when I woke up. There was a thick layer of snow over last night's ice. No way I'm driving a tiny, light hatchback in that weather!
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After weeks of dry, warm temperatures (low to mid 80's), and the warmest January ever, we finally arrive at mid 60's with rain.
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I do believe that S.A. had a share of 28 of those deaths according to wiki
But I am not trying to start an "i'm better than a Vic" arguement. Also I do not wish to see any fires again, and I hope we don't
wiki also states the last heatwave we had (last week for 10 days) there were 100+ deaths recorded due to the heat. This is a shame, especially when some of the deaths were aided by the power shortage's.
Heatwave - South-eastern Australia - 100+ - January 25 to February 4, 2009 -2009 Southeastern Australia heat wave. Nine day heatwave with Adelaide recording a record* six consecutive days over 40 °C (104 °F) and a record high of 45.7 °C (114.3 °F) with a record overnight minimum of 33.9 °C (93 °F) on January 28
Here's wishing every one can try and stay cool this weekend and please be careful with the extreme heat.
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Sissy's I'm going to run an marathon or two.
To be perfectly honest, I don't know how any one can die because of heat unless they're stupid. 76% of houses have Air-Con, and if you don't and you're clinging to dear life just go and hang out in the freezer section of a super market or something,
To be perfectly honest, I don't know how any one can die because of heat unless they're stupid. 76% of houses have Air-Con, and if you don't and you're clinging to dear life just go and hang out in the freezer section of a super market or something,
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Looking outside my window now, I can tell you exactly what has happened around most of Lincolnshire. Last night the slush which was formed due to people using the paths and the slush the trucks turned up has frozen and then a little bit of snow has fallen on top. If this gets us off school then this is ridiculous. As Moglet said earlier, this whole country has fell apart since the occurence of snow. Yesterday morning none of our local main roads were gritted at all, and today they proably won't get gritted again. The paths need gritting too as they are way to slippy to walk on without falling over. It's just stupid.
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I thought that supermarket's fridges ran on generators (When the power goes out obviously), or all the food would go stale?
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Ash wednesday was around about the time I was born. *EDIT* Actually I was a baby then.
Yep, they have backup generators, otherwise they would be throwing out many thousands of dollars of meat and other produce
Anyway if I had no air (but come on, air con is a necessity in this heat and A/C units could be bought so cheap these days) and was suffering I would just stay in a cold shower if it came down to it.
Yep, they have backup generators, otherwise they would be throwing out many thousands of dollars of meat and other produce
Anyway if I had no air (but come on, air con is a necessity in this heat and A/C units could be bought so cheap these days) and was suffering I would just stay in a cold shower if it came down to it.
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It's probably the most fun, but I don't want to take my car out as I don't trust the other drivers on the roads round here!
It better not snow tomorrow, I'm meant to be test driving the Abarth 500!
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Psssh, it already feels warm-ish today. I was pleasantly surprised walking to my car this morning, and I'm looking forward to the walk back to her after my final class.
I believe the news said 34 today, mid 40s tomorrow (but windy). We'll be sticking above the freezing level for the next week or so, and I'm pretty much giddy!
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We should be in the 50-60 range with rain. Finally, the ice will be off my drive and hopefully I can wash the salt off my car without feeling like I wasted my time 15 minutes later.
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