weather

[vankarhi]

Feb 29, 2012 22:27:48 GMT 10 Gerard said:

Has been humid, stormy and wet here for the last week or so, but as soon as we have some nice weather I'll take some pics and post them. I know you and Tracey can associate with the humid and wet bit. We haven't had the amount of rain you've had, but the soil, being clay, wouldn't be able to absorb it either.

I'll jump back on the book thread soon, but I'm in the middle of negotiating something at the moment.

Gerard.

Ok I decided to split this thread and start a new topic..........

So...........what part of the world do you live in Gerad?? I am thinking NSW. They have had their fair share of wettness lately.......sort of like us this time last year and this time the year before also. So far this year we have had in our town of Nagoorin over 20inches of rain........has made the ground very very wet indeed and even though our temps are relatively low......in the 30's the humidity is horrendous at times.

I think where Mike lives has had more rain than us though.

Our land here is black soil.........clay.......which means it is very easy to get bogged out here and we did a few times on our block this time last year when we first put the removal home on the block...........we now have a crusher dust driveway of 4 x trucks with 4x trailers attached all crusher dust for our driveway.......we no longer get bogged as long as we stay on the driveway lol ;D

I took some pics on the 21/2/12 and even emailed one to WIN tv weather and it made it on the weather for the night and one of Stephen's aunties who lives in Maryborough Qld (which is about 4 hours south of us) saw it on tv and it said my name and the town I live in..........so I am famous now lol

Here are some of the pics of the clouds I took........we got the storm 5 mins later







My husband had called me to look at the clouds and this is what we saw......it looked like an evil black blanket about to be thrown over us......awesome actually ;D

[mango]

Those are stunning pictures!

[Aimie]

Those pictures are awesome.

We have sand here in WA. Sand, sand and..... yep you have guessed it.....more sand.

[Robyn]

We have been coping some good storms & rain up in Cairns as well. Seems the grass grows 1 inch over night. It had been raining since the weekend & I only just got a chance to cut the grass this afternoon. There is more to come, rain that is. It's nice when it rains at least it cools things down a bit. 28 today.

[Gerard]

Well Tracey, to be honest I'm surprised you and Mike haven't started one on wedding anniversaries. And yes...somehow I sort have seem to have bypassed the intro section
I live in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and all this humid weather has funneled down mainly from Queensland via NSW, but it is not unusual to get a good lot of rain from a cyclone sitting off the West Australian coast via either an upper level disturbance or jet-stream activity. Normally this time of year it's 30-40 degrees and about 10% humidity. This summer it has barely got above 30 degrees and been between 65 to 100% humidity. And I spoke too soon about not much rain because North-Eastern & North Western Vic copped about 160mm yesterday. We only got about 40mm in Melbourne. However, having gone through 13 years of drought where we literally didn't see any rain for months at a time (yes...despite the rumours you hear, I am talking about Melbourne) we don't complain about any rain too much any more. Your pics are fantastic. We quite often see cloud formations like that when we have a strong cold front sweep in from Bass Strait. Apart from rain and thunder they are usually accompanied by very strong winds.

It is very leafy with big tall gum trees here. Common birds I see in the garden here include YTB2s, SC2s, Galahs, Crimson Rosellas, Eastern Rosellas, Powerful Owls, various Lorikeets, Kookaburras, etc. Tawny Frogmouths are a funny bird. They have excellent camouflage and will sit in a tree that has bark which is very similar in texture and colour to their feathers and will sit perfectly still. Even when you get to within a few centimetres of it, it will just remain perfectly still. Only when you touch it will it fly off. We are very spoilt for natural fauna considering it is certainly suburbia that I live in. We had a flock of RTB2s come in after the bush fires in 2010, but I haven't seen them this summer, so the bush must have recovered enough for them to go back. Very destructive and can strip a hard green pine cone in a few minutes and seemed to take great delight in throwing them on the nearest car when they'd finished with them. Charming, funny, playful, noisy, nosy and cheeky, but definitely evolved to be one of nature's own demolition machines.

Had a look at Nagoorin on an overhead and it looks like a nice quiet little place at the base of the hills there Tracey, but it also looks like an area that could funnel the weather a bit. Should be lots of birds there.
I can't quite tell from the overhead, but it doesn't look like that they've stripped the trees from the hills there. If that's the case I would think that it is a very pretty place to live.

[vankarhi]

it is a beautiful place Gerard.........there are mountains on either side of us and we are in the valley........the Boyne Valley we actually don't have the best views here.......the best ones are up the road in Ubobo and Builyan and Many Peaks..........I love it here

In winter we get heaps of frosts and the temps do get to minus 2 degrees give or take a few degrees at times. But the days warm up to mid twenties in winter........so slightly different to what you would be used to in Winter lol. Most people are shocked when they see me say minus 2 degrees in Sunny Qld lol but we are inland and even our hoses and taps get iced up

In summer however we get temps in the low to mid 40's but his year has been relatively cooler ......... but very humid.

We get heaps of wedge tails and hawks and there are some yellow tail black 'toos and some red tails also, along with king parrots and pale headed rosellas and we saw a jabiru while fishing at awonga dam last weekend..........heaps of other types of birds too........spoonbills, water hens, shags/cormorants etc etc oh and pelicans too and black swans............gee I might be able to go on forever lol

[Gerard]

Robyn, I know exactly what you mean about the grass. Warm, humid & wet is definitely the recipe for making grass gallop out of the ground. I used to love going to Trinity Beach just north of you. Be glad you get all that rain in the wet season, because it makes me very envious of all the wonderful flora with those great big green leaves that you can grow there. If I tried to grow them here the frost would kill them in the winter if the sun on a couple of 40 degree days didn't scorch them to death in summer first. Sounds funny to talk about weather extremes here when you guys cop cyclones up there.
Speaking of which, when one does approach, do the birds leave the area a day or half a day before one hits?

[Gerard]

Tracey, I have a Mac running Safari as the internet browser and therefore am finding it very difficult to upload a couple of photos of my feathered friends. Would you mind if I sent them to you via email so you can chuck them in the other thread? The weather is going to be wet, wet & wet for the next week so I'll just post the ones I have taken already. I was hoping for some better weather to take some in better light, but what can I say...the weather in Melbourne...well it's a bit like bloody Volvo drivers at the moment lol. ;D

[avinet]

Mar 1, 2012 20:47:32 GMT 10 Gerard said:

Tracey, I have a Mac running Safari as the internet browser and therefore am finding it very difficult to upload a couple of photos of my feathered friends.

Safari shouldn't be a problem - just upload the photos to a service like ImageShack, and then from the image information just copy and paste the forum code that comes up when you click on the "i" tag for the photo.
Browser or platform shouldn't come into it.

cheers,

Mike

[vankarhi]

or you can use photobucket to host your pics too..........but if you want to email them to me if you are still having problems then I can post them here no problems

[meandem]

Wedding anniversaries and weather...............mmmmmmmm........I'm just not gonna go near the wedding anniversary thing. And talk about the weather. Your shots are absolutely amazing Tracey. You are quite the professional photographer now girl! And famous too! Next time we see each other I will be surely asking for your autograph ;D

We haven't been gettiing a lot of bad weather, have been getting rain on and off, but the clouds have just been spectacular at sunrise. We went away last weekend - to another dam - and I took a few happy snaps whilst I was there. This is just one of them.

[Laraine]

Wow you gals are going great in the photo department. In Sydney we have had rain and storms all "summer". It is raining today and hasn't stopped since last night. I was hoping to mow the grass this weekend, but even if it stops by Sunday my yard gets boggy. Warragamba dam is expected to top 100% soon and they are talking about opening the gates (which they had to fix as they hadn't been opened for 12 years).

I would rather have this weather than the constant heat over in WA though.

[vankarhi]

now THAT photo is spectacular Ellen........you dont need to ask me for tips (but I will sign an autograph for ya lol........just in case lol)

[Gerard]

Spent most of the weekend deploying traffic management crews out to central Vic to assist with road closures for the floods. Just when you think it's all finished, down it comes again. Well at least it's now cooler and a lot less humid at last.

[anzac]

While over here in the West we have been sweltering through 38 degrees for day after day. We have a short respite tomorrow and Thursday (it will "only" be 33 and 32) then back up to the high 30s with Sunday being 39! Some how the birds are managing to survive the heat by all sitting at the bottom of the aviaries.

[vankarhi]

not sure what the temp is here......I should actually get up and have a look but the humidity is HOT and the sweat is running off me.

[Gerard]

Well the weather here is slowly improving, but boy have those floods kept my crews busy. Just enough humidity to keep it warm at night. All this rain has bought the rats out though...and big ones too.

[vankarhi]

our nights are quite cool again now........big change from this time last year when we were the ones getting flooded.

[Gerard]

Lucky you. We're back to warm, wet and humid. Storms all over the place the last couple of days...and the grass is just galloping out of the ground.

[vankarhi]

rain rain go away come again another day............14 ml so far and still raining.......not pouring but just enough to be annoying. At least it is not so humid again .......... for a few days at least I suppose.