Old Weather Forum

Good, as long as everyone wears their their thermals, I will quite worrying. We have been having 16 degree diurnal swings in temp and mid-day humidity of 14%.

Had a bright and sun-shiny day. Then it clouded over, then it got cold, now it's dark and snowing. Oscar says 'perhaps my moggy friend won't miss me tonight' and has removed himself to bed. Don't blame him!

What we have to look forward to this week in Sunny wet Australia. I must be good for someone, but with crops ready to harvest (if the farmers can find them) it is not good for them.
https://www.facebook.com/bureauofmeteor ... 7668905485

And at the other extreme we had Bushfires.



And just for a bit fun and an Australian perspective I offer you this link.
https://www.happylogic.online/australia ... erspective

From the ABC.net.au web site.



There has been plenty of rain about over the past few days, including over Arlparra Country in the NT on Monday. (Supplied: Niamh Geoghegan, Arlparra Country, NT)

I hope the flooding isn't too bad. Nice picture, though!

Ditto!

Stuart, You make my perspective of the world so much bigger, deeper, personal and obviously colorful! I really enjoyed the link to the maps. I often wonder if Australians might dismantle their globes and reassemble them south end up.

Morgan wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 1:12 am Stuart, You make my perspective of the world so much bigger, deeper, personal and obviously colorful! I really enjoyed the link to the maps. I often wonder if Australians might dismantle their globes and reassemble them south end up.

We already do that?


See also
https://thomo.coldie.net/travel/norwegi ... the-world/

Oh, Stuart! This one is going to have me thinking and realigning for a loooong time! Don't know about all the "Proofs" however, but I read more ridiculous things put out as truth all the time. I will have to keep an open mind.
Thank you so much! Morgan

Your welcome Morgan.

When I look at it my brain says it's all wrong, even though it really isn't.

We had cold weather and my apartment was nice and warm - in fact a tiny bit too warm.
Now we have warm weather and my apartment is a wee bit too cool

Not quite sure where to put this. I've been worried about the change to VOIP phones rather than the landline system which is used by my current phone. This tale of the problems after our recent storm Arwen is a salutary lesson in the limitations of current technology and the indifference of technology suppliers to the plight of their customers. It's very rare to have such major outages so when you really need to communicate you'd better have a handy pigeon to pass on the message. As someone who may, in the future, rely on an alarm bracelet to continue to live safely in the community it is a worrying thought that in real emergency involving a power cut IT WON'T WORK and BT DON'T CARE.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-59564480

What a mess!

If only the people who designed a system were forced to rely on it!!!

This is why I still keep my landline phone even though I never use it. I have not heard of any plans by my local phone company to switch the landline phones over to VOIP, but it wouldn't surprise me if that does happen sometime soon. Would my landline phone continue to get power from the phone company if it was switched to VOIP?

I expect there would be a strong resistance here if plans were announced to switch the landlines over to VOIP because that would require everyone to switch to new handsets. However, that is what is happening now as my cell phone company is switching to VOIP. They are requiring everyone to replace their phones to be compatible.