Just making sure that I'm on the right board and making sure I'm not getting into a clique, ;)
Weather here in Australia has been crazy over weekend.
Cyclone on Bealette in Darwin
Heat wave here
Devastating bushfires in Victoria and Southern NSW
Snowing in Hobart!
This is a land of extremes. :thumbsup:
Land of drought, flood, and fire (and cyclones just to round things out). My buddy has a house in Tathra. His house escaped, but the house next door has burned to the ground.
Webbo
Whoa. Is everyone OK? Bushfires are random. So glad his property is OK.
Tathra is a disaster. 700 people affected?
Awful.
Apparently, 20% of the houses in Tathra destroyed or damaged, but no one hurt physically at least. Beautiful little town on the coast it was. There will be a fair few hurting after having lost their houses there and in Victoria too.
Yes, it's heavy. As I say, we live in a land of extremes.
At least your mate is OK.
Just try to stay safe and retain your great sense of humour, guys!
I trust the bus stop (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=39693.0) is safe?
Light rain, mild temperatures here in Tokyo,
Typhoons, or more precisely the extremely heavy rain they bring, are the major weather hazards here. Though we did have a 40deg C difference in day time temperature between the extremes of the archipelago the other month. And plenty of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis to add to the excitement.
Just as long as you don't have any in May ;)
We had a bit of snow here in the U.K. this month. So much worse than anything anywhere else in the World - or so it seemed from some of the comments on the TV news programs. ::)
When that (and I hate the name) 'Beast from the East' hit us I really thought the BBC believed Armageddon was on it's way and we'd end up like the film 'The Day after Tomorrow' ::)
Quote from: Bealman on March 19, 2018, 08:11:14 AM
Just making sure that I'm on the right board and making sure I'm not getting into a clique, ;)
Weather here in Australia has been crazy over weekend.
Cyclone on Bealette in Darwin
Heat wave here
Devastating bushfires in Victoria and Southern NSW
Snowing in Hobart!
This is a land of extremes. :thumbsup:
Judging by the comments made regarding the cliquey side of the forum im glad I don't know about the Facebook side of it and if they have such a problem id rather they stick to their own clique on that and not hassle this one with their comments.
As for the weather, flooded fields, 2ft snow drifts, as low as -17 in the winds 2 weeks ago, relentless burst water pipes and now no lush green fields to tip our week old lambs out. Still they say that by easter when we have another siberian driven cold snap things should improve.
Can't come soon enough
:NGF:
Quote from: exmouthcraig on March 19, 2018, 10:18:50 PM
Quote from: Bealman on March 19, 2018, 08:11:14 AM
Just making sure that I'm on the right board and making sure I'm not getting into a clique, ;)
Judging by the comments made regarding the cliquey side of the forum im glad I don't know about the Facebook side of it and if they have such a problem id rather they stick to their own clique on that and not hassle this one with their comments.
Before the 'clique' question gets banned... If I look around a forum and don't see a clique, does that mean I am in one? Oh NO! ??? 8)
Just a little snow and a lot of cold here. Not as bad as the last lot and nothing like as bad as elsewhere in the world.
Getting our 4th Nor-Easter here, projecting about an inch to 3 of snow in the first wave, 4 to 8 in the second wave, shouldn't be too bad, they said we might lose power and some areas will get more than the projected 8in, will make the commute a little longer though.
Quote from: Zogbert Splod on March 20, 2018, 12:02:10 AM
Before the 'clique' question gets banned... If I look around a forum and don't see a clique, does that mean I am in one? Oh NO! ??? 8)
Fear not I am by your side
The thing that astonished me about the 'other' topic about clique/farcebook*/ that got locked ( moments after I posted 'what a hoot' owl)
Was that - a collective COBRA, or just a one-off mod. decision ?
No problem, --- it was a topic that had long outlived its porpoise and needed to be discontinued, in time, but many such similar threads will die eventually, do they do harm meanwhile ? Are we so fragile that we need to be thus protected ? I thought it was an enormous great hoot^ ,
but ,,
really !
Just making sure that I'm on the right board and making sure I'm not getting into a clique,
Judging by the comments made regarding the cliquey side of the forum
Before the 'clique' question gets banned...
What are you guys talking about? Haven't seen anything. ???
PS: Lovely weather here in Wellington, NZ.
Now it is pouring down where I live!
Welcome in the UK to the first day of spring, not the fake spring the Meteorologists claim was 3 weeks ago before the Beast from the East and the snow...
Quote from: Bealman on March 20, 2018, 08:00:01 AM
Now it is pouring down where I live!
Half your luck, George.
Here's my weather radar from a few minutes ago. You can see George is getting a tiny patch of rain in Wollongong (at about 1 o'clock on the outer circle in the image).
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR402.loop.shtml#skip (http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR402.loop.shtml#skip)
For me in Canberra (near the centre of the image) - nada! with zero prospect of anything happening soon.
Webbo
I went for a walk in the sunshine yesterday. It was cold, the wind was biting, and I had to take care on a patch or two of snow, but I had a spring in my step for the first time this year, so for me yesterday was the first day of spring. :D
I do recall going to a post TT motorcycle race meeting at Mallory Park in early June and it snowed then.
Can't remember what year, although it would have been in the 1970s.
You can't remember back that far.
Oops, sorry, being cliquey :uneasy:
It snowed 2nd Jun 1975, in many areas of the country.
It also snowed 1978 in May, in some part of the country, for all of the first 9 days, which is the one I particularly remember as the RAF at Coltishall wouldn't turn the heating on...
As for the weather with the Beast from the East part 1 and part 2, it's had some very bad effects almost in sight of my house...
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/drone-footage-of-hemsby-cliff-1-5442267 (http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/environment/drone-footage-of-hemsby-cliff-1-5442267)
The line of concrete blocks was the old cliff line before the storms
Although I do have sea defences where I live...
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/63/6067-200318110408.jpeg) (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=63137)
Thanks for that. :thumbsup:
I've been monitoring that story because in the 1960's my Mum and Dad took we kids on holiday to the Norfolk coast for a number of years. We always stayed in a little chalet, and I learned recently that it had succumbed to the sea. Very sad and tragic to see people's homes and property destroyed by the weather and the march of time.
(The chalet was somewhere between Hemsby and Scratby)
The Department of the Enviroment have a formula where they will only spend £1 for there is a possibiliy of £10 of destruction. Since the Hemsby destruction is slow enough for that not to happen in the requisite time period nothing is done.
Whereas just up the road where I live is very low lying ground, and if the sea Broke through there it could flow up the rivers as far as Norwich causing mass destruction. So 20 years ago we got the rock sea defences to Protect the concrete sea defences that were built after the 1953 floods...
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/205529 (http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/205529)
My house isn't quite in shot in one of the squences of this film.
A few years ago I hiked the Norfolk Coastal path, very enjoyable by the way
if you like staying in ye old inns etc, a week before there had been gales and
a very high tide resulting in seashells, seaweed , dead crabs etc in fields
half a mile from the water's edge.
Seeing that video, and particularly the long sea wall that was built, reminds me of the current situation at and near Sutton On Sea.
A similar wall was built, probably at around the same time, standing high above the beach level. My wife used to come on holiday with her mum and dad as a child and remembers it well.
In recent years someone has had the bright :hmmm: idea to protect the area better by dredging up sand and fine gravel from the sea floor and depositing it on the beach between the normal tide line and the wall. In some areas this sand, tons and tons of it, has been colonised, probably intentionally, by grasses etc, so that small dunes have formed. Beach level is now only a few feet below the wall top.
But outwith these areas it's just sand. Sand that rarely gets covered by the sea except on exceptional tides.
So what have we had lately? Wind. Lots of it. From the east. For days and days on end.
Result? Sand everywhere, on the Promenades, in back gardens, on caravan roofs (just a few caravans on this coast ;)), and Council workers and others are struggling to remove it all with tractors and diggers and all manner of implements and put it back on the beach. The problem, as far as I can tell, exists from Skegness to Mablethorpe. These clear ups must cost a fortune.
Now I know next to nowt about how you prevent coastal erosion, but using sand seems a bit of a non-starter. A humble worker I chatted to last week said they are now considering raising the sea wall to limit the sand incursion. And the guy whose family have run a nearby cafe for over 60 years said the sand problem was not a problem before they came up with this scheme.
Does anybody know what they are doing? :hmmm:
Great Yarmouth also had the diggers out clearing the sand from the roads, since thats the way of the longshore drift it's probably the sand from Hemsby.
Quote from: newportnobby on March 20, 2018, 09:51:50 AM
I do recall going to a post TT motorcycle race meeting at Mallory Park in early June and it snowed then.
Can't remember what year, although it would have been in the 1970s.
I remember it well. I was working at Silverstone, covering the British Grand Prix and it snowed on the way home. Probably 74 or 75.
Apologies for bumping up an old thread, but I thought it might be the place to mention it. I'm sure some of you have seen the news about Kentucky getting slammed by tornadoes last night. The sirens went off at my work twice last night but fortunately nothing was too close. A lot of other areas got hit in the state though. My home/general area is fine. Nothing damage-wise to report.
We had one tornado that was on the ground for over 200 miles, which will undoubtedly be a new record.
(https://i.imgur.com/4UIotQV.png)
I work in Hardin County, far right in the image, for reference. It seemed like this thing was coming our way for awhile before it dissipated.
Jeff, in Europe we have had a lot of heavy weather this week - storms in UK/ireland and flooding in south west France.
You are not alone.
My best wishes go out to our southern neighbours with their recent Tornados. We're still recovering here in BC from our flooding. Where I am wasn't affected particularly but we still only really have one route out of the lower mainland open, and still only for essential traffic. The rail lines up through the Fraser finally opened this week but there is still a big backlog of trains. We're still restricted to purchasing 30l of gas (I have a small car but we have a *lot* of huge truck drivers, maybe this will prompt them to get more appropriate vehicles!)
A friend of mine posted drone photo shots today out in western Kentucky. The long-track tornado hit a train on the Henderson Subdivision as it passed through Earlington. The devastation is insane. *Link to photos posted below*
Unable to see the Facebook images as not a member, but have seen drone images in a Huffpost news item of the utter devastation in Mayfield, Kentucky taken by Brandon Clement .
May help come fast to help those who have been made homeless, and care and comfort for those who will have lost loved ones to this indiscriminate destroyer of lives and livelihoods.
Quote from: daffy on December 11, 2021, 09:06:07 PM
Unable to see the Facebook images as not a member, but have seen drone images in a Huffpost news item of the utter devastation in Mayfield, Kentucky taken by Brandon Clement .
May help come fast to help those who have been made homeless, and care and comfort for those who will have lost loved ones to this indiscriminate destroyer of lives and livelihoods.
Same photos are here: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/news-photos-train-derailed-by-tornado-in-kentucky (https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/news-photos-train-derailed-by-tornado-in-kentucky)
It's certainly a mess over there. I've been watching on the news here this morning. Good to hear that you're ok. :thumbsup:
Must be one of the most terrifying things imaginable to have a tornado coming towards you.
Strange weather in eastern Australia too. Lots of rain and flooding this supposed summer. We've hardly had a warm day yet. Two years ago, the place was covered by smoke from raging bushfires. This year we're looking like Ireland it is so green still.
Webbo
That's the way I like it, Ian! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Jeff_W on December 12, 2021, 01:34:56 AM
Quote from: daffy on December 11, 2021, 09:06:07 PM
Unable to see the Facebook images as not a member, but have seen drone images in a Huffpost news item of the utter devastation in Mayfield, Kentucky taken by Brandon Clement .
May help come fast to help those who have been made homeless, and care and comfort for those who will have lost loved ones to this indiscriminate destroyer of lives and livelihoods.
Same photos are here: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/news-photos-train-derailed-by-tornado-in-kentucky (https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/news-photos-train-derailed-by-tornado-in-kentucky)
Thanks Jeff.
'Derailed' seems such an inadequate term to describe what has happened to that train. Thank heavens it was not a crowded passenger train.
Lots of wheel sets and bogies on/near track. Amazing. :o :(