Transcriber Weather

[Michael]

Weather summary for the past ten days from my weather station:

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                 High    Low  Gust  Precip Solar
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Daily Average     8.6    2.5
Extremes/Totals  10.8   -1.7   33.0   47.5    69
Normal Values    10.6    4.9          50.2

Temperatures in degrees Celsius, maximum gust kmh, rainfall in mm and solar power kilowatt hours.

[Randi]

Snow !

[pommystuart]

Cool.

[Randi]

Unsurprisingly, the small amount of snow that fell didn't last.
When I got home from dinner at a friend's last night the sidewalks were dry, but the wood-slat steps up to my apartment were icy!
I decided to use an old trick. I took off my shoes and went up the stairs in my wool socks. It worked very well!

[AvastMH]

Snow?! Wow! Though Scotland's due some tonight, though North and East I think, and the Highlands of course. Very clever to use the sock trick Randi!

[pommystuart]

All due to
The coefficient of friction (μ) is the ratio defining the force that resists the motion of one body in relation to another body in contact with it.

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

All due to
The coefficient of friction (μ) is the ratio defining the force that resists the motion of one body in relation to another body in contact with it.

Is it the rough nature of the wool fibres that make the difference when walking on ice please Stuart ?

I understood that the same trick works well when walking on snow because the flexible wool surface prevents sheets of ice building up as snow is compressed by your weight on our shoe sole.

[pommystuart]

Sounds good to me Joan.

[AvastMH]

Sounds good to me Joan.

Then I'll give it a go
Though we rarely get snow
When it gets cool
I'll pull on the wool
and hope not to slip
when taking a trip.

[Michael]

It's easier to get these:


If you're in a place with serious winter, you want these:



Your feet will be warm even at -50C, and you won't slip or slide on anything, other than smooth ice that is wet on the surface. In that case, you need logging boots with cleats. But, if things are that bad, you're best to stay indoors.

[Randi]

Raining and about 11C at the moment.

[Michael]

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DD HH | Pres/   TT/   TD/DDD/FFF GGG  RH   PCP PRATE
22 18 |  122/  6.2/  5.3/000/000      94   0.0   0.0

Summary:      12    24 Hrs
Maximum:     6.8   6.8 deg C
Minimum:     3.7   3.7 deg C
Precip:      2.0   2.0 mm
Max Wind:      7     7 kmh

[pommystuart]

It's easier to get these:


Your feet will be warm even at -50C, and you won't slip or slide on anything, other than smooth ice that is wet on the surface. In that case, you need logging boots with cleats. But, if things are that bad, you're best to stay indoors.

Remember to take them off before you walk on the parquetry floor.

[Randi]

Very sound advice!

I'm not sure how useful they would have been on the wooden steps.

[Michael]

Great on wooden steps!!! Not so great on smooth concrete floors. Not that many years ago, in smaller logging towns, you would see signs on the doors of some businesses saying that you could not enter if wearing boots with cleats.

[pommystuart]

Date/Time EDT , Temp °C, App Temp °C, Dew Pt °C, Rel Hum , Delta-T °C
28/03:00pm 39.4, 38.6, 15.1, 24, 15.4,
29/12:00am 22.8, 26.0, 18.8, 78, 2.5,
29/04:30pm 40.8, 38.1, 11.8, 18, 17.6,

I spaced the temps under the headings in edit screen and cannot align them in preview. Any help?

[Randi]

Try using the fifth button (</>) to put the whole thing in a code block, or use a fixed width font [font=courier][/font].

[Michael]

That was a little warm. I heard that Sydney had the least cool November night on record, something like 25C.

[Morgan]

I switched the app on my phone to read weather in Celsius to get a better feeling for it- used to working in F. I had to convert your 40 Degree C on the computer because my mental database did not go that high. WOW. It sounds like you will have quite a summer.
Speaking of Summer, I understand you start Summer Dec 1 and we in the US start winter on Dec 21. I understand the 6 month offset- but not the 20 days? Is it just a convention?