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fermi de Sousa

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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #630 on: January 19, 2011, 07:51:47 AM »
Victoria also has had some flooding and you can understand when you see the volume of water going through the area!
Here are some shots fo the Campaspe River near us, the first pic on 14th and then after the flood on the 18th
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In the last pic you can see the fence which is now "thatched" with debris!

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Edit by Maggi: fermi, I've moved the pix to be each in their own space.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #631 on: January 19, 2011, 05:27:55 PM »
Fermi, all water holes filled to the brim then? ;)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #632 on: January 19, 2011, 07:49:18 PM »
Fermi,
on your pictures it seems your terrain did not get so much rainfall and the floodwater came from far away.
Am I right?
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #633 on: January 19, 2011, 11:21:22 PM »
Quote from: Armin on January 19, 2011, 07:49:18 PM
Fermi,
on your pictures it seems your terrain did not get so much rainfall and the floodwater came from far away.
Am I right?
Armin,
the area where I took the pics probably had at least 4 inches of rain the day before I took the pic, but a lot more rain fell further upstream (about 10 inches at Kyneton). That huge volume of water is continuing downstream and is now engulfing towns many miles away. Mother Nature is a mighty force.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #634 on: January 19, 2011, 11:27:38 PM »
I was thinking today that the floods will also be very bad for wildlife but on the other hand seed eating birds will have a lot to eat in the near future
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #635 on: January 21, 2011, 07:56:17 PM »
The drive to work a few days ago- images taken from the vehicle in motion (I wasn't driving!) which makes it look just a little worse than it was ..
since, we have warmed up from highs that were around -17 to below -20C for most of the first half of the month, highs now above freezing!! and will be for some days, so its brown and slushy in town and some of the highways, gravel roads and everything on the acreage still pure white...
a few more shots at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/January142011#
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #636 on: January 21, 2011, 08:14:27 PM »
cohan, your pictures reminds me of the wearher I can "enjoy" when I cross the mountains ;D

Here is from north Norway, this bus has been parked with all doors and windows tightly shut to no benefit when the blizzard hit.



http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7468086
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #637 on: January 21, 2011, 08:32:47 PM »
Snow and strong winds - what a frost! ;D
The bus driver seemed to have some humour.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #638 on: January 21, 2011, 08:38:02 PM »
Trond, I have seen plenty of blizzards but what's remarkable there is a vehicle with such poor door seals!   :o
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #639 on: January 21, 2011, 08:52:25 PM »
Quote from: Lori Skulski on January 21, 2011, 08:38:02 PM
Trond, I have seen plenty of blizzards but what's remarkable there is a vehicle with such poor door seals!   :o
Lori, I fully agree! However they write that the door seals were OK but the strong wind (32m/s) forced cracks in the sealings  ;D
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #640 on: January 22, 2011, 07:42:21 AM »
Quote from: Hoy on January 21, 2011, 08:52:25 PM
Quote from: Lori Skulski on January 21, 2011, 08:38:02 PM
Trond, I have seen plenty of blizzards but what's remarkable there is a vehicle with such poor door seals!   :o
Lori, I fully agree! However they write that the door seals were OK but the strong wind (32m/s) forced cracks in the sealings  ;D

Yikes! I am happy to have the snow remain outside of the vehicle! We get a little snow on the floor inside one unused door at work, but nothing like that...lol

I've come to realise that here in the country--although we may have lengthy private driveways we have to clear ourselves, our public roads are cleared more than residential streets in the cities--Edmonton news has been full ever day of the problems on residential streets: the plows have been busy on main thoroughfares, and have not made much progress on residential streets where many people are having difficulty to even get their vehicles out to go anywhere; now that it is getting warmer, the snow is getting softer, and even some of the snowplows were getting stuck!
Here, the gravel road I live on is usually cleared within a couple of days of snowfall over a couple of inches, often within one day or less! The highways are cleared even more, and usually most of the snow is blown off the highway by heavy traffic anyway, except of course for warmer heavier snowfalls...
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #641 on: January 22, 2011, 10:09:34 AM »
Fermi your photos of the flood near your place and then the snow in Europe - what a world we live in.
I can't get my head around the idea that the flood in Victoria Australia is still heading north to the River Murray. I heard it was 90 ks long and 40ks wide. There is so much flat countryside - it is the middle of summer - how come the water has not soaked in more and petered out. It must have been hellish where the rain originally fell. There is a few rivers joining up after being nearly dry - I heard the salt levels in some rivers after years of drought were something like  3 x sea water level.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #642 on: January 22, 2011, 11:42:02 AM »
The New Zealanders were rattled by another 5.1 strength earthquake the other day..... I can't imagine having to cope with that stress.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #643 on: January 27, 2011, 04:50:30 AM »
Howdy All,

A balmy 37oC yesterday here, and 34oC today.  High 20s for the next couple of days and then back into the mid 30s.  Summer has definitely got here properly now. ::)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #644 on: January 27, 2011, 08:51:28 AM »
Quote from: Paul T on January 27, 2011, 04:50:30 AM
Howdy All,

A balmy 37oC yesterday here, and 34oC today.  High 20s for the next couple of days and then back into the mid 30s.  Summer has definitely got here properly now. ::)

Sounds really good to me. Nice day here I suppose, dry sunny and supposed to reach a balmy 5c.( I can't find the degree key on my iPad )  ::)

Angie :)
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