what's your weather currently like?

OMG...we're above zero
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Just before midday, 29C/84f with humidity at 61%. We were supposed to hit 40/104 but that's been corrected to a high of 39/102, what a relief. I took this shot while hosing down the lawn, particularly the brown patches, I think you can tell the heat gets pretty intense here just looking at all the cars, mostly all white or light silver.PSX_20260125_113008.jpg
 
Hey Dave, which flag is your neighbor flying? At first I thought it was a University of Oregon flag due to the colors.

I’ve worked outdoors in similar heat, with UV index at 8 or 9, but not the levels you have. Brutal. Ice water all day with small amounts of Powerade or Gatorade from time to time.


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JDGolden said:
Hey Dave, which flag is your neighbor flying? At first I thought it was a University of Oregon flag due to the colors.

I’ve worked outdoors in similar heat, with UV index at 8 or 9, but not the levels you have. Brutal. Ice water all day with small amounts of Powerade or Gatorade from time to time.


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Boxing Kangaroo for Australia day 26th
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I was just looking it up and Australia is much closer the the equator than the US is, which is why those temps seem so hot to us, the northern half of Australia is at an equivalent latitude of southern Mexico, and only the southern tip near Tasmania is at a latitude equivalent to those of us in the "middle" of the US.
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We are close to the ozone layer and that's why we have high UV damage.
 
Big Dave said:
Just before midday, 29C/84f with humidity at 61%. We were supposed to hit 40/104 but that's been corrected to a high of 39/102, what a relief. I took this shot while hosing down the lawn, particularly the brown patches, I think you can tell the heat gets pretty intense here just looking at all the cars, mostly all white or light silver.View attachment 139864
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28c today and 30c on Wednesday.
 
JDGolden said:
Hey Dave, which flag is your neighbor flying? At first I thought it was a University of Oregon flag due to the colors.

I’ve worked outdoors in similar heat, with UV index at 8 or 9, but not the levels you have. Brutal. Ice water all day with small amounts of Powerade or Gatorade from time to time.


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Ayden is correct, boxing kangaroo flag for Australia Day, January 26, our national day, and a public holiday of course. Could also be supporting the Aussies doing well at the Australian Open in Melbourne, as it's our national sporting flag. Boxingkangaroo.svg.png
 
We HIT 30c BUT driving 15 minutes to Devonport the temperature drops off but heaps of people at the beach ⛱️ still
 
It is currently 17 F and sleeting. The roads are iced up but the ground has not been covered yet, The moisture was late arriving and apparently warmer air is coming in so the 3/4 inch ice forecast has been reduced to 1/2 in max. As it often happens, the worst is running north east of us.

The upcoming days are going to be warmer. Being Sunday helps since less traffic and churches have cancelled services.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Oh, you mean close to the hole in the ozone? Or where it used to be.
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I just looked it up, the hole in the ozone layer still forms every year, between August and December, over southern latitudes, which is why Tasmania, both the place and the person, gets it worse. Also, because of the Earths elliptical orbit, we are closer to the sun during our summer, another reason we get higher UV levels.

But here's another counterintuitive fact, the mean temperature across the whole northern hemisphere during the northern summer is higher than the mean temperature of the southern hemisphere during the southern summer, despite the distance from the sun. This is because the northern hemisphere has more land mass, and the southern hemisphere more ocean, and water is a great insulator and doesn't absorb heat the way the land does.
 
Oh, I thought we closed the hole, finally, 50 years or so after we got after the CFC's. I thought there were just thin areas now.

It's funny how the ozone action was pretty quick and decisive (banning CFC aerosol propellants, phasing out refrigerants, solvents, and blowing agents), while still taking a long time to have any real effect on the ozone, while the greenhouse gas argument has been ongoing and indecisive, and that's going to take even longer to correct itself, if ever at this point.

There was some overlap in the solvents and refrigerants between ODP (ozone depletion potential) and GWP (global warming potential) in that some of the things they switched to for low ODP then had to go because they had high GWP. It's still ironic to me that they are now using CO2 in refrigeration systems, unless I have that wrong.
 
Big Dave said:
I just looked it up, the hole in the ozone layer still forms every year, between August and December, over southern latitudes, which is why Tasmania, both the place and the person, gets it worse. Also, because of the Earths elliptical orbit, we are closer to the sun during our summer, another reason we get higher UV levels.

But here's another counterintuitive fact, the mean temperature across the whole northern hemisphere during the northern summer is higher than the mean temperature of the southern hemisphere during the southern summer, despite the distance from the sun. This is because the northern hemisphere has more land mass, and the southern hemisphere more ocean, and water is a great insulator and doesn't absorb heat the way the land does.
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What Dave said SA 🙃
 
Got about 14 inches of snow/sleet this past weekend. Had to dig a pit toilet for the dogs. The snow was up to Gus's belly.
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Also watched the Australian Open play get temporarily suspended due to hitting 99F.
 
It is 22 F here and a chance of snow again this weekend. The back roads are still icy from the last storm.
 
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