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We had 43c here today, but it's OK as it's cooled right down now (21:40.... 38c). We're looking at a low overnight of 35c. (Perth, Oz). No wind. Actually, cloudy at some points.
Geraldton (north WA) smashed records. Was 49.3c there today.
Will have to go switch the retic on when I'm home and hope my chillis haven't gawn!
My surprising 12c in Stirling this morning suddenly doesn’t seem relevant…
About 14°c here in worcestershire which is just as well as this is the condition of the local bridleways this morning
We are flying out to Perth on Friday for our 8 month olds first trip to grandparents and family... I really really hope it cools down a bit before then!
I've not even needed a coat in Macclesfield this afternoon. Absolutely bonkers.
Way too warm in most of the world it seems!
Australia also proposing Middle Arm hydrocarbon plant (already passed two approval stages I believe), this project will release >15 million tonnes of carbon / year. Considering some part of Aus are nearly unlivable this will just get worse.
Had to cut the grass today , it was getting stupidly long 😕
Lovely weather for some digging at Southern4X
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First time this year topless on the Turbo!
I found a peacock butterfly in the garden yesterday. It's still winter!
See your butterfly and raise you the real thing* at the new Soutern4X track at Freespace.
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*This is an old photo of it as I didn't bother stopping digging just because the local disco chicken was strutting its stuff in the undergrowth.
Was 14c in Tilly as I waited for rugby training to end, this morning - a decent wind but it felt really warm...properly odd as I wasn't expecting it and didn't bother checking the weather.
Went into Stirling this afternoon and it was nice weather for walking about.
Weather seems to be doing the oddness just now!
Yup, it's been about 5°C over what we were used to even ten years back in the Pyrenees. There have been many more temperature inversions than usual to with warmer air in teh mountains than on the plain.
The world is about +1.5, Europe about +3 and the mountains around +5
14c here in North Northumberland.
If Facebook weather reports have told me about wet, cold or snowy weather that’s it’s called winter and so much for global warming.
Just bought some plastic cloches to put over some vulnerable plants which normally get frosted. Not forecast to get near freezing for next couple of weeks. Probably had the last frost knowing my luck.
Windy and it rained this afternoon, temp about 14°, so I was wearing my old Danish Army field jacket with a fleece underneath, but I was/am wearing shorts, and have been since last month. I think I stopped wearing shorts through that cold spell in December. Probably December before I need to think about wearing longs again this year.
Mid 30’s here in the Barossa - an hours drive north of Adelaide in South Australia. No doubt we’ll get the Perth heat in the next day or so!
We’re not getting the insane temperatures over East currently… but the humidity means it feels like we are. Furniture going mouldy etc. Hitting 30 by 9am most days but at least it’s under 20 overnight now.
According to Mrs R (who works in related fields) we had a “flash drought” in late 2023… something we’ll be getting often in future.
I'm getting 45c today on my weather app, and daaamn don't it feel warm? Unusual cloud cover which essentially puts a big blanket in the sky and traps the warm air in.
I did manage to get the bike out, albeit just for an hour, but was quite hard to breathe such dry air (and even riding there's no wind). Now stuck in an office until 10pm. At least I'm not paying for the 'leccy.
The leccy is the problem. 65% of Australian electricity is generated from fossil fuels. You'd think a country that's stuffed if it gets any hotter would limit its CO2 emissions but instead it burns and exports coal.
A friend in Austria was posting pics and video from what is normally ski runs at this time of year. There were a few scattered patches of snow but it was warm enough for her to be walking around in a T-shirt.
She's riding trails that aren't normally rideable until April/May time.
The leccy is the problem. 65% of Australian electricity is generated from fossil fuels. You’d think a country that’s stuffed if it gets any hotter would limit its CO2 emissions but instead it burns and exports coal.
That’s a good point, but there are reasons for the inertia.
Firstly the predicted impacts vary, so it’s not simply heat that’s an issue even if the energy from the heat causes the problems
Secondly, Australia has the highest uptake of solar PV systems globally (as you would perhaps expect/hope) so domestic usage isn’t as bad as would seem
Thirdly there’s a historical mistrust of anything nuclear, because of the bomb testing, the disasters elsewhere, the impact on Traditional Owners landscapes so it rules out that option.
Fourth the electrical distribution network in Australia is bonkers. The distances really don’t help so the costs sunk into infrastructure take longer to recoup.
Fifth, Tasmania. 100% renewables (when not importing)
Sixth, the political excuse has always been that we contribute such a tiny amount of the world’s fossil fuel usage so it doesn’t matter. Happy to sell to addicts, but they’re the real problem not us.
Solar in Aus generates something like 15GW from close to 3 million installations.
But I think coal is one of our bigger exports.
I missed out on signing up for decent feed in rates. A few mates get 40c per kWh fed back!
I get 10c from 3pm to 9pm
2.25c from 9pm to 3pm. Though how anyone gets solar feed back at night.... lol
Spent some time walking around Edinburgh on Saturday. Mostly mild and rainy, but when the sun peaked out on a rare occasion it was properly warm, felt more like May than mid Feb.
I know that there are naturally warmer spells in any winter and one day is not an indicator - and I am sure there will be one more cold snap to come this winter. But the general tone is quite alarming this winter. I was away weekend before last in Torridon hoping to climb some snowy munros, but it was about 12 degrees and pissing rain the whole time. Only snow left was remains of cornices or in gullies very high up, and that has been the case for 90 percent of the winter.
I'd recommend anyone to Check out Iain Cameron's book "The Vanishing Ice" about tracking and realising the decrease in lasting snow in recent winters. It is pretty grim stuff if you read between the lines.
In South London is been mild, wet, cloudy. It is forecast to cool a little but it does feel like spring. I normally take a warm spell in Feb as fleeting and am sure winter will return. I'm not so sure this year. On the positive side, its mood lifting to see some colour, cherry blossom, daffodils, snow drops, peonies, primrose.... lots out.
It might not be global warming just yet.
I remember roughly 15 years ago having a meal sat outside a pub in mid February with my Grandma who was about 85 at the time. It was T-shirt weather, and even warm enough that she was just in a cardigan.
Global warming hadnt properly been invented then.
T-shirt weather in mid Feb? Always used to snow in Feb iirc (My birthday's in Feb and I recall many snowy birthdays riding new bikes in slush).
Oh..snow. Love a bit right now!
Just saw a butterfly.
We got the Beast from the East to come yet.
Just bought some plastic cloches to put over some vulnerable plants which normally get frosted. Not forecast to get near freezing for next couple of weeks.
My veg patch is an absolute swamp and I haven’t been able to start digging it over since November.
All the insects have just woken up in North Yorkshire. Pedalling through clouds of the things. Probably caused by the flooded roads courtesy of our esteemed farmers squashing mud into every single drain thanks to the eleventy million tonnes of machinery driven over the verges by a 14 year old on his phone.
I remember doing rides in 38-40C when I lived in Melbourne. Was manageable as it was a dry heat (though I hear it's humid as hell there at the moment).
I live in the very south of the UK now and we've not really had a winter this year. Only worn tights for four or five rides. May as well call it the wet season now or the mud season. Frankly, the speed of the change is terrifying. On the other hand, I'm benefiting personally: there's a longer growing season, lower heating costs etc.
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I’m on Salford today and have seen blue sky and sunshine.I can only assume I set the satnav wrong and there is another Salford that is not near Manchester
Was absolutely miserable rain, especially second half, watching the Bluebirds at Salford on Saturday afternoon, but not cold! Last two days riding in the DRibble Valley have been warm enough for shorts and two layers....... great!!
We got the Beast from the East to come yet.
Rude, I'm not coming out to play this year!