@Ron_E said:
You can have ours. We had a couple of days of single digit highs (F) and tonight we expect a couple tenths of ice from freezing rain.
Yeah, yuck. While it still isn't very light out, everything I can make out here in Ankeny looks like a mirror. 31F and hopefully that keeps creeping upward.
We had sleet before it turned to freezing rain last night. We replaced the patio light this year with a LED floodlight and it was acting as a strobe light for the sleet bouncing off the roof. I captured a frame from the video I took.
Our Winters have never been as harsh as most places in the US: we don't get the blizzards, 6" snow drifts etc.
Snow only falls on our 'Australian Alps' on the east coast above about 800 metres. With climate change, ski resorts sometimes need to use snow making equipment and the ski season is getting shorter each year.
In the 1960s and before, Melbourne used to get 30F and frost on some Winter mornings, but the coldest it gets now is around 35F-40F in urban areas. I don't think we would cope with the sort of conditions you guys get.
I thought Melbourne would be bad tomorrow with 105F, but I just heard the weather forecast and Mildura (inland on the Victoria/NSW border) will be 114F, sheesh.
That sort of heat can kill people and animals; bush-fire danger will be extreme.
Ron, was that video clip made with your Google Pixel 8? I just picked up a Google Pixel 8 Pro on sale and am currently running it through the gears. What software did you use to pull the still frame from the clip? Just wondering, because I am thinking about trying to do something similar at DIY speaker events. Shoot a bunch of extremely short 4K 60fps video clips and then pull a bunch of stills from the video later.
Yes, I used my Pixel 8. I pulled the image using VLC media player. It will play just about any video file format. I had to rotate the image 90 degrees and then crop it with Photoshop Elements.
Despite the climate, we can get black ice here and it's, as you say, challenging.
I couldn't believe how tricky it was until I hit a patch coming down a hill, on a sharp bend: thank the aeronautical engineers in the 1950s for inventing anti lock brakes! The freeway near that spot now has black ice detectors which give drivers warnings as they approach, but the system isn't perfect.
Lucinda Williams has released a Beatles collection to add to her Dylan and Stones albums: some tracks don't grab me that much yet, but I really liked this one:
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Melbourne weather is renowned as um, 'challenging', with "four seasons in one day" a favourite saying.
However, this weekend is a real doozy, with today 25C, Sunday 32C and Monday - - 41C (105F). Eek...
I don't understand the science, but we get hot winds from inland Australia, whereas Sydney and Brisbane, for example, generally don't.
Bring back Winter!
Geoff
You can have ours. We had a couple of days of single digit highs (F) and tonight we expect a couple tenths of ice from freezing rain.
LOL , my sentiments exactly Ron !
Yeah, yuck. While it still isn't very light out, everything I can make out here in Ankeny looks like a mirror. 31F and hopefully that keeps creeping upward.
It's a sheet of ice here in CR too. The sand trucks are backing up the hills in our neighborhood.
Pretty slick here, too. Not as bad as I expected but I will still likely be bunkering down for the day.
We had sleet before it turned to freezing rain last night. We replaced the patio light this year with a LED floodlight and it was acting as a strobe light for the sleet bouncing off the roof. I captured a frame from the video I took.
Ron
Our Winters have never been as harsh as most places in the US: we don't get the blizzards, 6" snow drifts etc.
Snow only falls on our 'Australian Alps' on the east coast above about 800 metres. With climate change, ski resorts sometimes need to use snow making equipment and the ski season is getting shorter each year.
In the 1960s and before, Melbourne used to get 30F and frost on some Winter mornings, but the coldest it gets now is around 35F-40F in urban areas. I don't think we would cope with the sort of conditions you guys get.
Geoff
I uploaded my sleet video to my Google drive. You can see the strobe effect better if you slow the speed down.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rEC3IUQpqGKTYwCwx1BEs5IvGeWfspsR/view
Ron
I thought Melbourne would be bad tomorrow with 105F, but I just heard the weather forecast and Mildura (inland on the Victoria/NSW border) will be 114F, sheesh.
That sort of heat can kill people and animals; bush-fire danger will be extreme.
Geoff
Ron, was that video clip made with your Google Pixel 8? I just picked up a Google Pixel 8 Pro on sale and am currently running it through the gears. What software did you use to pull the still frame from the clip? Just wondering, because I am thinking about trying to do something similar at DIY speaker events. Shoot a bunch of extremely short 4K 60fps video clips and then pull a bunch of stills from the video later.
Yes, I used my Pixel 8. I pulled the image using VLC media player. It will play just about any video file format. I had to rotate the image 90 degrees and then crop it with Photoshop Elements.
Ron
I just drove 40 miles home from my inlaws. Crazy spots of black ice. Not fun.
Despite the climate, we can get black ice here and it's, as you say, challenging.
I couldn't believe how tricky it was until I hit a patch coming down a hill, on a sharp bend: thank the aeronautical engineers in the 1950s for inventing anti lock brakes! The freeway near that spot now has black ice detectors which give drivers warnings as they approach, but the system isn't perfect.
Geoff
Lucinda Williams has released a Beatles collection to add to her Dylan and Stones albums: some tracks don't grab me that much yet, but I really liked this one:
Geoff