old man emu Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Is that 38 degrees anti-clockwise from the horizontal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 (edited) Degrees and hours are the same on a planetary measurement. And can be expressed in degrees or minutes . spacaesailor Edited February 9 by spacesailor A little more ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 1 hour ago, old man emu said: The figure I used was close enough for the point I was making. I wasn't trying to diagnose a malady. I know. Just thought I'd mention it in case someone takes their temp at 38 and thinks it's normal after reading that. At 38 it's a fever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 When I was undergoing chemo for cancer, the oncologist told me, "If your temperature gets to 38, call me, any time day or night, and get yourself to the hospital." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 12 hours ago, spacesailor said: Degrees and hours are the same on a planetary measurement. And can be expressed in degrees or minutes . spacaesailor Your knowledge of angular displacement is radian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Some video from Victoria this week. Wait for the caravan. Melbourne storms 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Didn't have the wheels chocked . We have had a couple of our chocks stolen. Just have to keep replacing them . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I remember the 2011 floods in Toowoomba where they got 6" of rain in less than an hour. Toowoomba is 2,000' above sea level and higher than all surrounding country, but it's a big bowl shape with two parallel north/south creeks running through it. From the east, the land slopes from the rim of the range down to East Creek, then rises up before falling down to West Creek, then rises again to the west. When it floods, which is extremely rare, the runoff comes off four slopes into the centre of the town. This video shows the runoff coming from the west and flowing to West Creek. Two people died in Toowoomba that day, but a heap more drowned around Murphy's Creek and Grantham at the bottom of the range. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 And they build towns in those flood area's. Always on the best farmland, the best because it gets a good silting by those floods . Look at Egypt's Aswan dam , the farmland is degrading . No floods . spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I've got some pretty good storm cells in my local area at the moment. But not drop of rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I'd love to just see some storm cells. I cannot believe the total lack of storms here on the left coast, despite the relentless heat. I'm going to forget what rain is, soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 (edited) 7 hours ago, willedoo said: I remember the 2011 floods in Toowoomba where they got 6" of rain in less than an hour. Toowoomba is 2,000' above sea level and higher than all surrounding country, but it's a big bowl shape with two parallel north/south creeks running through it. From the east, the land slopes from the rim of the range down to East Creek, then rises up before falling down to West Creek, then rises again to the west. When it floods, which is extremely rare, the runoff comes off four slopes into the centre of the town. This video shows the runoff coming from the west and flowing to West Creek. Two people died in Toowoomba that day, but a heap more drowned around Murphy's Creek and Grantham at the bottom of the range. I was living in Buderim at the time and am still amazed at the photos I took of our back yard and pool areas. We had just listed the house for sale and were having an open home the following week. The pool ended up with over 450mm of sand & debris in the bottom from the empty block above us that was starting development. All the shoes, mats etc at the back door were swept around the house and down the drive on to the road. Most were never seen again but I picked up a thong that had ended up in a pile of rubbish about 500 metres away down 2 roads. I've never seen such intense rainfall before or since. Edited February 15 by kgwilson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 There's always a lot of jokes about the BOM weather forecasts being inaccurate, but where I live they have been generally about 90% correct. That is, until the last few months where they have been uncharacteristically inaccurate. Usually around here, whatever the BOM says will happen does happen. But I don't know what's wrong with them lately; they seem to be all over the shop. Just one example - yesterday's forecast for today was possible showers. Today we woke up to torrential rain that hammered down for most of the morning. For the last hour it's eased to steady rain. There's a severe weather warning out for the area just south of here to expect a sea borne thunderstorm to move onshore bringing more heavy rain. The BOM site has now changed today's forecast to rain, after the fact. 'Possible showers' will probably end up being a few inches of rain. I haven't braved the trek to the rain gauge yet, but I'd guess I've had maybe 3" so far today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Maybe I'm too hard on the BOM. Their original forecast of possible showers might come true if the heavy rain stops. It doesn't look like it will at this stage. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 They don't get the "AIR mass" analysis like they used to with the weather ballons. The actual "Lapse Rate' has a lot to do with hail and severity of rain, Vertical development of up currents in Cumulus Clouds. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 (edited) The BOM has been steadily defunded by successive Govts, until it has become a shadow of what it was even 30 years ago. We used to get weather forecast upgrades 3 times a day, now we get just 1 update a day. When we had the massive damaging storm that swept through the W.A. Hills region, Wheatbelt and Goldfields in mid January 2024, we got around 45 minutes warning of the severe storm approaching. We had no SMS alerts, even where people were subscribed to warning alerts. My stepdaughter, who lives in Stoneville in the Hills above Perth, only noticed the threatening storm when she went outside for a work break from her office in the house. She became alarmed, and only just had time to round up her chooks and lock them away, before the storm hit in an especially violent "mini-tornado" manner. She had no time to put anything loose away, nor tie anything down. When the mini-tornado hit, it shredded huge trees on her 5 acre bush block, picked up her 10-seat glass patio table and flipped it upside down, and hurled it into the bush. The chairs got hurled up to 40 or 50 metres and buckled out of shape, and her large patio incurred substantial damage. Edited February 16 by onetrack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 How can you defund things and still expect them to STILL deliver the "GOODS"? . You can tell when the ISOBARS are computer generated = GUESSED. They have weird little wiggles in them that just could NOT be right. The further out a forecast is the more of this you see. It's projection . But some of the current one must be too..Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Our 'possible showers' forecast for today is a bit of an understatement. It's been raining solid for 12 hours or more and starting to flood down in the floodplain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 A "Sea Borne" thunderstorm is a STRANGE term to use. You ARE getting a PROPER WET in the North.. of the state. It's STILL Summer. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 (edited) Well, we got thoroughly pounded with the heat today, some areas of the Central Sahara are starting to look like a place to take a cool break, to us. They wrote up the article before the heat peaked, they said Perth had 42.5°C, we actually reached 42.9°C at 3.58PM today. https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/western-wa-town-cracks-australias-top-ten-hottest-temperatures/1805026 Edited February 18 by onetrack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On 16/02/2024 at 6:28 PM, facthunter said: A "Sea Borne" thunderstorm is a STRANGE term to use. Nev, I thought it was a short way of saying a thunderstorm that formed out over the ocean and moved inland to the south west. I'm all ears for a more appropriate term. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Most of our thunderstorms come overland from the interior, from the south west, west or occasionally from the north west. The ones over the ocean normally stay there and don't head inland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On the weather map, Geraldton Western Australia Was up for 45 degrees centigrade. That is Hot . spacesailor 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 21 minutes ago, spacesailor said: On the weather map, Geraldton Western Australia Was up for 45 degrees centigrade. That is Hot . spacesailor Fairly normal inland at this time of year, but that's hot for the coast. Too hot for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 And Geraldtons maximum temperature today was 49.3° - an all time record for the town - and the weather records for the place go back to 1877! http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml#CW 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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