As someone who has lived in Bris for ages wondered if you think the climate has got hotter?

I am sure it has, summers seem so long now....... I mean it was getting over 30 back in September, it just seems to drag on . Surely OZ cant have escaped the global warming thing can it?

I mean if you look back at temp charts for here, they seem very mild? Old meg posted one and the dates were 1960 to 1991:scared: wondered how relevant that is now

That IS hot, i've only seen mine get to about 32-33C so far, though I think today's ongoing hot weather may create a new pool record.

My pool has been out of action since the storms when half the soil in the garden washed in. The pool man (who seems to visit a lot but I've never seen??) emptied it and we've just been refilling with a hose for THREE DAYS (around the clock). He's supposed to be back today to make it go blue again.

I'm looking forward to jumping in with the inflatable whale and some beers this evening...

Yep Meg, didnt know it was called crack the whip but yes, have played that in the past. Dunno the chimney one though.

It just hit 35 in my bedroom, I have to wonder why Im sitting in here when I have an a/c office to go & sit in.

34 is hot, its often 32 but not 34, but its positioned NW to get as much sun as possible so on very hot days it does get a bit too warm, I think the fact its not cooled down much at night is really keeping the temps up in the water.

Pool guys do have a funny habit of charging for work 'done' and chemicals 'added' while you were out. I cant believe what they charge.

Blacky Up The Chimney:
"He" (Blacky up the Chimney) standing on the rainwater tank with eyes covered counting silently to 10, then quickly looks around - "he" points/names the first one seen moving then that one becomes "he"; if none then "he" must repeat. The first one to creep up and touch "he" had the honour of becoming "he". A chosen "he" was a failure; a sneaky "he" was a success.

Banned by a Headmaster for the "racist overtones". Took a while for us to work that one out.

What extra servicing are you paying for Dotty?

Good to see not all are reduced to wilted vegetables:

Neighbour's 20 year old son just running passed the front gate in footy gear: did seem a bit off the pace.

I see you've just got your 5k!

And its a Finbar Saunders post. Phnaar Phnaar.

Dotty, sometimes the problem with charts is that they only show mean or average temps which dont always correspond to the reality. Take here for an example a few weeks back when it was raining it was WAY down, 23/24 degrees for a few days, if you had taken the average temp for that week or whatever it would have been lower than this weeks. Also it depends on whats measured, mean & average arent the same thing.


The global warming thing from what I remember is only actually a small amount, maybe a degree or so over the last decade or more? If Im wrong, someone please correct me (cue in Megs obligatory graph or URL ). But I think this year is FAR hotter than last year, from memory we only had a handful of days that it got over 32 in our house last year, this year it seems to be 34/35 a LOT. I think just about every day for the last 2 weeks
:scared: . I remember last year that I got the pool guy to come out to look at our spa at the end of Feb/beginning of March because we thought there was something wrong with the solar heating cos it wasnt warm enough to get in, I couldnt get in the spa now unless I wanted to impersonate a mudcrab being boiled alive .

All I know is its bloody hot!

Megs, yes, a variant on that theme, no name.

Palindromic remediation?

Glenelg:
Was it a rat I saw.

http://www.viz.co.uk/latest/125finbarr/page05.htm

"During the Tertiary (approximately 65-1.8 million years ago), the climate in southern Australia generally deteriorated. Mean annual temperature declined and seasonality became more pronounced, particularly at the end of the Eocene (around 35 million years ago), with the initiation of the circum-Antarctic current and the glaciation of Antarctica (Kemp, 1978; Christophel, 1995; Hill 1994). A brief warming cycle in the Middle Miocene (about 15 million years ago) was followed by cooling that has generally continued to the present (Christophel, 1995). During the last 2 million years the maximum mean global temperature was at most 1-2 degrees Celsius warmer than at present (Huntley, 1995), less than the predicted increase for this century."

Yesterdays Weather Results

Ta Meg, know I know OZ has always felt like a gorillas armpit

Seriously today is indescribable, steam room perhaps. Going for a swim.

6,500BP:

"Closed forest covers most of Britain. This is probably the most forested that Britain had been in the Holocene. Mesolithic man was mainly a strand loper, foraging for fish, shellfish and coastal birds along the coastline and leaving evidence of flint working on the hoof. There is evidence of occupation at a number of sites in the West Country, but as sea level was lower than at present most of the evidence on the shoreline is covered by water. Low tide exposes some midden remains at Westward Ho! and St Ives. Midden in this context means rubbish dump rather than dunghill."

Those were the good old days