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The new BOM site wants to be part of social media, that seems to be the main problem. You can still access all of the old BOM site at - https://reg.bom.gov.au/

https://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/synoptic_col.shtml?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I'm happy now!

For several days now I have been getting constant winds of about 15 kts from the Southeast. It is an unusual situation since air coming from that direction used to bring rain, but the sky has been completely clear. I wouild have liked to see a synoptic chart, but it seems that the BOM thinks they are not worth posting.

How all this scanning started was that an old close mate I'd known since 1971 passed away recently and I've been looking for photos of him from the old days to scan and forward on to his daughters. Scanning old photos is a bit like letting the genie out of the bottle, then down the rabbit hole you go.

Season's greetings to all 🍾

Big enough when I ride my bike to do the paper round before school.

Mary & Joseph were going to name him Jerry. Just as the scribe started to write, Mary stubbed her toe. Christmas Adam comes before Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve isn't happy.

We all know about the English mathematician, Alan Turing. He's the bloke who was very instrumental in developing a machine to decode German military messages created using Enigma machines. But what did he do after the war ended? Well he want back to being a mathematician working on developing computers. However, he must have got bored with that field of study. When Turing was 39 years old in 1951, he turned to mathematical biology, finally publishing his masterpiece "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" in January 1952. "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", which describes how patterns in nature, such as stripes and spots, can arise naturally and autonomously from a homogeneous, uniform state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern Turing proposed a model wherein two homogeneously distributed substances (P and S) interact to produce stable patterns during morphogenesis. These patterns represent regional differences in the concentrations of the two substances. Their interactions would produce an ordered structure out of random chaos. There's an explanation of this process in the attached video. Go to timestamp 3:18 It is interesting that the stripes of an individual zebra are unique to that zebra, in the same way as your fingerprints are unique to you. This individuality is also the basis of eye pattern recognition used in security systems.

In 2022 when I moved here, it rained and rained and the country was Ireland green. In 2025 it barely rained at all and the country is brown. That's a depressing scene.

That link gets me into the BOM site. I did see that I could get to other places, but some of them display information in the new format, which it not as quickly seen as it was in the old format. I don't mind looking at tabulated data, or black & white charts. I want facts, not pretty colours. The BOM site should be a source of information. It does not need to be infotainment.

Were you a Juvenile Deniliquint red? A mate of mine was posted to the Primary school as Headmaster in 1959. Name of Jim Perrry. Nev

I was driven in a Landrover from Tumut to Gundagai to watch the torch runner go by.

I use Paint a lot to resize photos down in size; I find it really easy to do in Paint.

A random thought struck me when I woke up this morning. 2026 is the 70th anniversary of the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. I attended one day of those games on a school excursion from Deniliquin High School. I was 12 at the time, in Year 7. We went by bus from the school.

Incidentally, the brother has only recently found this D6C, the very first Cat, and the first new bulldozer we ever bought (out of about a dozen dozers in total), and it belongs to an old prospector in the W.A. Goldfields, and it's still fully operational! It's probably done around 50,000 or 60,000 hours by now. We bought this tractor new in November 1966, and sold it in 1972 (traded on a new D7F), and it had done over 13,000 hrs, back in 1972.

I am never amazed at how gullible people can be

There has always been much said about the USofA having the world's greatest military might. But times are a-changing. A new kid on the block is catching up. And at the same time, warfare and weaponry is changing whilst USofA don't appear to be keeping up. Think how Ukraine has rapidly changed the whole approach to war, and doing very well at it. And the chinese are building a bigger military threat of their own.

https://www.twz.com/sea/chinese-cargo-ship-packed-full-of-modular-missile-launchers-emerges Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons.