Ah, nice to see you Jex. I don't suppose you're going to offer up any superlatives about me too whilst everyone else is at it! Lol.
How’s the weather?
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I just think of that pic of Esox in that barrel? looking thing. Got to find the thread that's in
And now for something completely different, i.e. the original topic of this thread: weather. 
Here we are on the 8th of December. Normally, I would be looking out my window at a winter wonderland with lots of snow...but this year is really weird...
In a typical year, once the snow has started in earnest, say early November or even late October, that's pretty much it for thawing. Temps would usually remain below freezing for the balance of the winter, or if an occasional blip of warm weather raises the mercury above freezing it is for a very short time and barely affects the accumulation of white stuff.
This year...starting in November we have had at least three significant snowfalls of several inches apiece...but each has been followed by several days of warmth that caused all the snow to disappear. Right now the temp on my deck sits at +3C, and it's been above zero for the last 72 or so hours. It's actually raining! Virtually all our snow is gone, and it will be completely gone by tonight at this rate.
I can't honestly say I'm disappointed...I know there is plenty of winter still to come...but this is very strange...
Here we are on the 8th of December. Normally, I would be looking out my window at a winter wonderland with lots of snow...but this year is really weird...
In a typical year, once the snow has started in earnest, say early November or even late October, that's pretty much it for thawing. Temps would usually remain below freezing for the balance of the winter, or if an occasional blip of warm weather raises the mercury above freezing it is for a very short time and barely affects the accumulation of white stuff.
This year...starting in November we have had at least three significant snowfalls of several inches apiece...but each has been followed by several days of warmth that caused all the snow to disappear. Right now the temp on my deck sits at +3C, and it's been above zero for the last 72 or so hours. It's actually raining! Virtually all our snow is gone, and it will be completely gone by tonight at this rate.
I can't honestly say I'm disappointed...I know there is plenty of winter still to come...but this is very strange...
Mid 50s today, high is 73 tomorrow, 23 Celsius. Really not excited ab that
1 week into summer here, it was 35C yesterday and 18C today and has rained non stop since 9pm last night, i was going to mow the lawns but its far too wet.
If i drove north for 8 hours to where
Friller2009
lives it is a scorching 44C, i think i would rather be here in Melbourne today to be honest2,
If i drove north for 8 hours to where
Friller2009
lives it is a scorching 44C, i think i would rather be here in Melbourne today to be honest2,
Here, let me help you out. This was August 2022. It was very hot that day and me and young Esox needed to cool off. I wish to god it was that hot today. It's cold and piss**g it down.
You'd think I would know better...but noooooooooo....
I just had to post my earlier comment about our unseasonably mild and snow-free weather...thus jinxing myself. The forecast called for temps to fall last night and continue colder for a week or so. It even grudgingly admitted that we might see a few flakes this morning...
Last night, the wind picked up, gusting into the 60-kph range, bringing a blowing, stinging, eye-watering mini-blizzard with it. Temp -12C, windchill don'tknowbutdangcold Celsius. We got probably 3 inches of that dry-feeling, tiny-flaked hard snow, the kind that doesn't fall but rather migrates straight sidewise directly from the North Pole and feels and looks like it would make excellent aquarium sand. I rose from the fire to take Duke out for his end-of-the-evening ablutions, and when I opened the door he flinched from the wind, looking up at me as if to say "Can't you please teach me to use the toilet like a civilized being?" He trudged outside unenthusiastically, and while hunching over to do the deed he was watching me at the door like a hawk, making sure that it would be open for him to run immediately back inside...but I then had to go with the scooper and shovel to pick up his fresh turd before it became covered over to lie in wait for an unsuspecting boot next summer. He waited inside watching me; I could almost hear him thinking "See? See? Not much fun out there, is it?"
That snow was never on the forecast, which I had checked only a couple hours before it started, and it still wasn't mentioned while it was pelting down because I looked again and they just kept saying the same thing. How can the weather geniuses not know about a storm like that?
I'm gonna blame it on AI, which apparently never looks out the window before telling me what the weather is like.
I just had to post my earlier comment about our unseasonably mild and snow-free weather...thus jinxing myself. The forecast called for temps to fall last night and continue colder for a week or so. It even grudgingly admitted that we might see a few flakes this morning...
Last night, the wind picked up, gusting into the 60-kph range, bringing a blowing, stinging, eye-watering mini-blizzard with it. Temp -12C, windchill don'tknowbutdangcold Celsius. We got probably 3 inches of that dry-feeling, tiny-flaked hard snow, the kind that doesn't fall but rather migrates straight sidewise directly from the North Pole and feels and looks like it would make excellent aquarium sand. I rose from the fire to take Duke out for his end-of-the-evening ablutions, and when I opened the door he flinched from the wind, looking up at me as if to say "Can't you please teach me to use the toilet like a civilized being?" He trudged outside unenthusiastically, and while hunching over to do the deed he was watching me at the door like a hawk, making sure that it would be open for him to run immediately back inside...but I then had to go with the scooper and shovel to pick up his fresh turd before it became covered over to lie in wait for an unsuspecting boot next summer. He waited inside watching me; I could almost hear him thinking "See? See? Not much fun out there, is it?"
That snow was never on the forecast, which I had checked only a couple hours before it started, and it still wasn't mentioned while it was pelting down because I looked again and they just kept saying the same thing. How can the weather geniuses not know about a storm like that?
I'm gonna blame it on AI, which apparently never looks out the window before telling me what the weather is like.
Okay, I am not completely sure that I understand the thought processes of Homo sapiens californicus so I will just ask: what on earth don't you like about that?
As mentioned earlier in the week I am at a friend's house animal sitting. Last Tuesday we got an atmospheric river come thru. Flooded the whole town. Stopped traffic flow in both directions on Hwy101. I was planning my evacuation cause the water was nearing overflow point. Luckily I didn't have to. Well guess what round two in coming in today.... Thankfully my friend is coming home today and I should be driving home by time it starts raining bucket loads. Two inches of rain a day on an already flooded city is no fun in my book.
