The Weather Thread
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- BradleyH131
Yup. I can hardly remember the last time it rained properly. We had a few drops last week, but not a proper shower.
Where I live, Melbourne (Bottom right of the mainland), is introducing Stage 3 Water Restrictions on the 1st of January. Which are:
- Lawns cannot be watered by residents, businesses and local councils. There are some exempt playing surfaces that can be watered. (Pretty much all the lawn around here is completely dead already)
- Manual dripper systems can be used between 6am - 8am and 8pm - 10pm*.
- Automatic dripper systems can be used between midnight - 4am*.
- Hand-held hoses fitted with a trigger nozzle can be used between 6am–8am and 8pm-10pm to water gardens.*
- Vehicle washing. Hand-held hoses or high pressure cleaning devices cannot be used for vehicle washing, at any time. A bucket filled from a tap can be used to clean windows, mirrors and lights; and spot-remove corrosive substances. A commercial car wash can be used. (My car is so dirty, I haven't washed it in about 2 months)
On the what is the weather like today, well, It's not raining. And it's about 36C.
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Is it pretty rare to have those restrictions? We just had them two years (or was it three...?) ago when there was a serious drought and forest fires were rampant. Reservoirs drained down to their last 10% before we got rain. On that year, in the end we were not allowed to sprinkle lawns anymore, at all.
The restrictions suck, really. Big businesses and golf courses still waste lots of water, if what I've seen is correct in Australia.
The restrictions suck, really. Big businesses and golf courses still waste lots of water, if what I've seen is correct in Australia.
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- BradleyH131
We've been at least on Stage 1 restrictions for years, possibly late 90s, Stage 2 came in a couple of years ago. It's only Stage 3 in metropolitan Melbourne though as well. I was down at Phillip Island a couple of weeks ago (Where the MotoGP and V8s are held), and they're on level 4 restrictions, where basically you can't use water outside at all, because the dam capacity was down to 11% or something.
Down here at least they've got pretty tight. Golf Courses are only allowed to water greens as far as I'm aware. Most sporting grounds aren't allowed, I've heard they're already canceling next years football season in some areas because the grounds are just too hard and can't legally be used. My brothers league is talking about doing the same also.
It just has big knock on effects. Farmers are losing everything, a couple of weeks ago they were saying how many farmer suicides their have been this year. Crops just can't be grown, which in turn bumps the prices up higher, then it causes more farmers to struggle just to feed their families. In addiction, the everything here is so dry, that fires just go on forever. This fires which I posted about on the 9th of December are still burning. And have burnt down 800,000 hectares of forest and houses.
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Okay then, at least you guys manage the water better than us. But when I talk "restrictions" its only for the summer beginning June ending September. Outside of that period, you can water as much as you like. (Not that you'd want to give more water to an already-watered lawn from rain, anyway.) We have never had restrictions going on for years.
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It's confirmed, that there will be no snow at all before or even after christmas here....This will be the first christmas in all my life without snow. Last year at this time in Ontario Canada, we were digging our cars out of the snow. Its too awkward.
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- GTP_Thiele (PSP only)
- nope
Yup. I can hardly remember the last time it rained properly. We had a few drops last week, but not a proper shower.
Where I live, Melbourne (Bottom right of the mainland), is introducing Stage 3 Water Restrictions on the 1st of January. Which are:
*Even numbered houses can water on Saturday and Tuesday; odd numbered can water on Sunday and Wednesday.
- Lawns cannot be watered by residents, businesses and local councils. There are some exempt playing surfaces that can be watered. (Pretty much all the lawn around here is completely dead already)
- Manual dripper systems can be used between 6am - 8am and 8pm - 10pm*.
- Automatic dripper systems can be used between midnight - 4am*.
- Hand-held hoses fitted with a trigger nozzle can be used between 6am–8am and 8pm-10pm to water gardens.*
- Vehicle washing. Hand-held hoses or high pressure cleaning devices cannot be used for vehicle washing, at any time. A bucket filled from a tap can be used to clean windows, mirrors and lights; and spot-remove corrosive substances. A commercial car wash can be used. (My car is so dirty, I haven't washed it in about 2 months)
On the what is the weather like today, well, It's not raining. And it's about 36C.
same here, we're getting level 3 restrictions 1st January aswell
i live on the Yorke Peninsula (the small foot at the bottom in the middle)
here's a satelite image:
here's the Yorke Penuinsula:
half of it's in the Summer, but still, it's very dry
some silly people were watering a golf course in 35+ heat C yesterday
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Its cold in detroit right now buddy, Ill tell you what.
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- Melbourne
- GTPr01 (GT); TheGTAFather (GTA)
Yep, and with us guys in Melbourne soon recieving stage 3 restrictions, it's a good thing we have a permit for our pool early enough. I couldn't imagine not being able to use my pool, having just one massive hole in my backyard and staring into nothingness. (Though, skating it could prove dangerously fun)
To be honest with you, these fires are a waste of time to be fighting seriously; as soon as you've spent days and days on end coming out on top with one front, another one just as large will start somewhere else. We might as well just let Australia burn and have it all done over with. (I'm sick of this smoke...)
To be honest with you, these fires are a waste of time to be fighting seriously; as soon as you've spent days and days on end coming out on top with one front, another one just as large will start somewhere else. We might as well just let Australia burn and have it all done over with. (I'm sick of this smoke...)
Again, where in for some nasty, unheatly (air polution) winter weather today but luckly not too cold though.
completely off topic: I just found out if you click on the amount of replies in the GTP forum thing, you can see how many replies you've entered in that particularly thread, hehe.
completely off topic: I just found out if you click on the amount of replies in the GTP forum thing, you can see how many replies you've entered in that particularly thread, hehe.
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- GTPr01 (GT); TheGTAFather (GTA)
yeah, that's for sure...
well, we did get a good shower of rain and thunder, i would go and check the rain guage but it's too dangerous with lightning
i forgot what rain smells like, and what thunder's like
Let alone what green grass feels like under your feet, or rather the taste of something non-frozen. (Damn it's hot...)
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- BradleyH131
According the the Bureau of Meteorology. It got to 37.4 today
(and remember that's shade temperature,in the sun it's about 10C hotter, that's why they were saying it read 53C in the middle of the ground in Perth last week during the test.).
Which isn't that bad. The bad thing is that it's almost 10pm and it's still 33C.
Just curious, which part of Melbourne are you from?
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- VIPERGTS01
yeah, that's for sure...
well, we did get a good shower of rain and thunder, i would go and check the rain guage but it's too dangerous with lightning
i forgot what rain smells like, and what thunder's like
Yep the heavy rain, lightning and thunder has just reached Adelaide in the last 10 minutes.
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Yeah, that damn storm turned my computer off. I forgot all about the damn affects storms can have on electricity. 
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Yeah, that damn storm turned my computer off. I forgot all about the damn affects storms can have on electricity.
Yep turned mine off too, as we are powered by the same grid.
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- BradleyH131
11:10PM and it's still 30.7°C in Melbourne Australia...looks like I wont be sleeping comfortably tonight
The lowest it got to was 27C overnight at 12:40am, but don't worry, it was back up to the current temperature of 30C by 6am.
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yeah, but our Front lorn is still Brown
hmm, it reached us at 7pm, we got 7mm in the rain guage
Yeah, that damn storm turned my computer off. I forgot all about the damn affects storms can have on electricity.
the power didn't go out here, but the lights flickered a few times
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