what's your weather currently like?

Tropical Cyclone Albert is due to hit Brisbane in the next day or so, the rain we've been getting this week, and will get till mid next week, is all coming from this storm system. We're far enough south to not be in any danger, but it is a big slow moving system, Category 2 is what's being reported, wind speeds up to 120kph near the centre.
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Texchappy said:
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LOL, I have a trampoline story, if you fellers will indulge me...people who live behind me had a trampoline in their back yard. No fence between my yard and theirs. Their kids got older, trampoline went unused, starts falling apart, etc. One day I come home from work, trampoline is gone, I figure they had someone take it away.

Day or two later, doorbell rings, it's the police. Asking me if I know anything about the trampoline that was stolen, I say no, nothing, figured they got rid of it. Few days later, the trampoline is back. I forget how I got the story, apparently the people across the street from me were renting a trampoline, and they wanted to turn it back in. Crew who came to pick it up, went to wrong side of street (my house), rang doorbell, no answer, looked in back yard, see trampoline in what they think is my backyard, dismantle it and take it away.

It seemed funnier when I remembered it than after I typed it out. Sorry.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
LOL, I have a trampoline story, if you fellers will indulge me...people who live behind me had a trampoline in their back yard. No fence between my yard and theirs. Their kids got older, trampoline went unused, starts falling apart, etc. One day I come home from work, trampoline is gone, I figure they had someone take it away.

Day or two later, doorbell rings, it's the police. Asking me if I know anything about the trampoline that was stolen, I say no, nothing, figured they got rid of it. Few days later, the trampoline is back. I forget how I got the story, apparently the people across the street from me were renting a trampoline, and they wanted to turn it back in. Crew who came to pick it up, went to wrong side of street (my house), rang doorbell, no answer, looked in back yard, see trampoline in what they think is my backyard, dismantle it and take it away.

It seemed funnier when I remembered it than after I typed it out. Sorry.
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During the big storm we had a couple of months ago multiple trampolines escaped. There were posts up on the local FB page asking if anyone suddenly found trampolines in their backyard, so I guess not all of them found their way home.

Also, we've got mid 90s with high humidity both Saturday and Sunday, so I don't think I'll be doing much this weekend.
 
I never thought about this before, but is the ozone thinner in the Southern Hemisphere? I know the ozone hole is down your way (Antarctica), or it used to be if it's closed up now. But I don't know if it was there partly because the whole layer is thinner down there. BTW, if it is, I'm sure it's because of us up here in the North, and I personally apologize for all the times I vented out an R-12 A/C system...cuz that's what you did back then. Not to mention all those aerosol cans of Raid and brake cleaner and spray paint.
 
I did a little research, we do still get a hole in the ozone layer, but it's seasonal, it opens up between August and December, it did open earlier this year because of some volcanic activity in the Pacific, so it's not all your fault. Also, it is smaller then it was in the early 2000s, the changes they made to spray cans and AC refrigerants and whatever else they did has started to make a difference.
 
Big Dave said:
I did a little research, we do still get a hole in the ozone layer, but it's seasonal, it opens up between August and December, it did open earlier this year because of some volcanic activity in the Pacific, so it's not all your fault. Also, it is smaller then it was in the early 2000s, the changes they made to spray cans and AC refrigerants and whatever else they did has started to make a difference.
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So do you have higher UV levels in the Southern Hemisphere, based on the ozone being thinner?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
So do you have higher UV levels in the Southern Hemisphere, based on the ozone being thinner?
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Yeah, that's a good part of it. Australia is considered the skin cancer capital of the world, a compounding factor is that the earth is closer to the sun during our summer, when people are more inclined to wear less due to the heat. My family is fair skinned, so most of us get skin checks every year, my brother has had a few small ones removed, I had something removed about 10 years ago, it wasn't a melanoma, but he decided to remove it before it possibly became one. Since then it's hats , suncream, sunglasses any time I go outside, even if it's mostly overcast. Also why I love the FJ, it's very good at keeping the sun off me with it's upright windshield.
 
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