How's Your Weather Today?

[Lancpudn]

Sunday was nice. Sunny with a high of 88° and low humidity. It's nearing 4:00 am and we're at an overnight low of 56° but headed back into the 90°s later today. Should be warm this week with no rain in sight.

Very warm for September in fact. We had snow as early as Sept. 15th before whereas this year we'll see temps in the high 80°s and low 90°s.

Blimey! The swings in temp there are huge Paul, your overnight low is our high for today. Most people were pinning their hopes on an Indian Summer after a rubbish Summer here, but it looks like we're carrying on with the crappy weather

Wet & windy this morning with a few sunny intervals forecast for this afternoon, Top temp of 14C/57F. I think I can put my shorts away for next year.

 

[Digger]

Max and late rain. Just after 6AM and the dam is covered in mist and looks lovely!

 

[soulman969]

Blimey! The swings in temp there are huge Paul, your overnight low is our high for today. Most people were pinning their hopes on an Indian Summer after a rubbish Summer here, but it looks like we're carrying on with the crappy weather

Wet & windy this morning with a few sunny intervals forecast for this afternoon, Top temp of 14C/57F. I think I can put my shorts away for next year.

It's rare when we don't see 30° swings between daytime highs and overnight lows and not only in the summer. It's like that pretty much all year round. It's why we always advise visitors to dress in layers.

The morning could start out in the 40°s and by mid afternoon it's in the high 70°s or low 80°s. At this altitude the sun's heat is pretty powerful. Even today where yesterday the high was predicted to be in the low 90°s it's only gonna make it to 87° due to some cloud cover.

By tonight we'll eventually be back in the 50°s again and that cycle repeats itself year 'round.

 

[Lancpudn]

It feels like a real Autumn day today, Grey skies & heavy showers throughout the day, Top temp of a paltry 11C, My bell peppers & chillies aren't going to ripen in the greenhouse with these temps & low light levels. What a rubbish growing season it's been this year.

 

[soulman969]

Just to reconfirm our 30° swings in temps we're at our overnight low of 55° right now but looking for a high of 84° later today with cloud cover much of the day and 50% chance of rain. Kind of a typical summer day.

 

[Paruwi]

we're getting lots of rain
temps are in the 14-16°C range

 

[Digger]

Heading for a cool one today with a maximum of just 15C. The fire had some coals when I got up at 6 so I chucked another log on. Heavy rain last night and more expected today.

 

[Lancpudn]

Looks like lots of rain around, The ground is sodden from the deluge we got yesterday & overnight.
It looks like another day of it again, judging by the forecast & the stormy looking sky that greeted me when I let the cats out this morning. Top temp of 12C/53F with more of the wet stuff.

 

[Otto99]

We’re being knocked about by the arms of Hurricane Francine as she poops out and moves up the Mississippi. Calls for 3-4” of rain and possible wind gusts to ~30-40 mph/~50-65kph. 7 years ago today we were being bathed in Hurricane Irma’s dying tears.

 

[soulman969]

Wow, lots of rain and other nasty weather elsewhere.

Here we're seeing partly sunny skies but with some smoke haze from the western fires in California and Oregon. High of 91° forecast with an overnight low of just 49° so more like a 40° swing tonight. By this time of year the sun really has an impact. Temps cool quickly after sundown.

 

[Digger]

Cool like yesterday, maximum of 17C. Cloudy!

 

[Lancpudn]

It's a cloudy day with a chance of some sunny intervals forecast for later today, It's damp & cool with a top temp of 14C/57F today.

 

[Paruwi]

around 12°C today.....

south eastern part had some snow.....

 

[Digger]

Even colder than you Peter!
Today its a visit back to winter conditions with a maximum of 11C and wet-wet-wet!

 

[Lancpudn]

Overcast warm day here with no rain forecast, Top temp of 18C. I'll take that.

 

[soulman969]

Still in the sunshine with temps in the high 80°s both yesterday and today. It's still unusually warm for this late in the summer.

 

[Digger]

Another winter-like day here today with some rain though nothing like yesterday! It pretty much rained all day yesterday, sometime it was really heavy! Today is expected to be 13C top.

I was at the sink shelling prawns yesterday afternoon when I noticed birds landing on the dam, a lot of birds! I didn't think much of it as there have been loads of birds there all the time recently, Ducks, Grebes, Swamp Hens etc, but then it dawned on me that these were Cormorants! Heaps of bloody Cormorants!

I moved quickly to get my shotgun out but that isn’t something you can do quickly here as the guns are locked up, and ammo also locked up in a separate storage area. It was pouring rain still so I slapped my hat and boots on and went out to find maybe another 50 birds wheeling around overhead. As I approached I reckon 50 more took off from the dam!

BIrds everywhere overhead so I snapped off a couple of shots but the narrow spread of the .410 didn’t allow me to hit any at distance whereas my old 12 gauge would have. Later back at the sink cleaning prawns there was one big black Cormorant down on the bank, so I repeated the exercise. My use of a flowering fruit tree as cover for my approach was thwarted because Ducks that were in my line of sight took off en masse and the Cormorant followed them.

These birds are native but exist in unnatural numbers! You used to be able to go to the council to get shotgun shells free to thin their numbers out but then the greenies...you know the story. Now where I live is close to the longest beach in Australia, we also have 4 major rivers in our area, and then there are the Gippsland Lakes, the biggest salt water lakes in Australia just a few kilometres away, and yet these mongrel things have to come here and strip my dam of fish.

I’ve seen flocks of about 300 flying overhead at times!

 

[Lancpudn]

Sounds like they need a culling mate, especially with all the feeding grounds they have in the vicinity.

It's a grey gloomy rainy day here with a top temp of 15C. I was going to chop up all the branches to fit in the green waste wheelie bin today, but they will have to wait for another day.

 

[soulman969]

Pretty much the same here today but with a 50% chance of some rain. High around 87° with some light winds. It's 58° right now at 3:30 am.

 

[Digger]

Sounds like they need a culling mate, especially with all the feeding grounds they have in the vicinity.

It's a grey gloomy rainy day here with a top temp of 15C. I was going to chop up all the branches to fit in the green waste wheelie bin today, but they will have to wait for another day.

Chuckle....I thjink I need an anti aircraft gun, or killer drones, a flock of them! They’d be well and truly flocked then!