What's the temperature where you are???

[janiedoe]

12:00hrs 27 April 2024
South central Ontario Canada

10C and just pelting down rain calling for rain all weekend - what a shocker




I am waiting for it to abate some so I can empty the wheelbarrow at Mount Poopmore. Late doing chores today playing with the chooks and the new chicks.
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Time thieves

Cute little time theives!

 

[janiedoe]

Very sad
But glad the tornado warning systems in some towns worked well to warn people. Need to have more warning systems in place.

We have warning come over our cell phones and TV but many of us don’t have our cells with us and TV is an evening thing. I missed a tornado warning here one day, the tornado hit not 10 min from me. I had the alerts turned off on my phone.

Im glad you are okay. Keep that alert on!

 

[kikiruru]

Texas is most definitely hotter than mobile

 

[Ponypoor]

Im glad you are okay. Keep that alert on!

Yes I do now, I live in the middle of tornado zone here, every year one rips through along the path between the Great Lakes from the severe thunderstorms that develop from the cold water and the warm air, and also big storms coming up from down in the southern US mixing with cold air from the north here - some real crackers of thunderstorms!

We had a real glorious thunderstorm on the 9th of April here - right at dusk, the lightning was ferocious - I was at the barn and really a bit scared of the lighting it was hitting everywhere. I didn't want to go out in the paddocks to put out hay for the horses (and just as well I didn't the wind blew the Hay-Hut away down the paddock), then I didn't want to go back to the house it was so intense. But I also didn't want to get stuck at the barn for a couple hrs at night, so I made a mad dash for the house - covered those 400' in no time hahaha. And down came the rain woohoo! and the wind! and there went my hay hut....

Gone with the wind!

 

[Debbie292d]

74F. Wind advisory AGAIN. 25-30 with 40-50 mph gusts.

Too bad I didn't get here to say what it was in Cancun! Usually highs in the mid-80s and humid, lows in the high 70s/low 80s. Just got back last night.

 

[Ponypoor]

74F. Wind advisory AGAIN. 25-30 with 40-50 mph gusts.

Too bad I didn't get here to say what it was in Cancun! Usually highs in the mid-80s and humid, lows in the high 70s/low 80s. Just got back last night.

Welcome back

 

[janiedoe]

Yes I do now, I live in the middle of tornado zone here, every year one rips through along the path between the Great Lakes from the severe thunderstorms that develop from the cold water and the warm air, and also big storms coming up from down in the southern US mixing with cold air from the north here - some real crackers of thunderstorms!

We had a real glorious thunderstorm on the 9th of April here - right at dusk, the lightning was ferocious - I was at the barn and really a bit scared of the lighting it was hitting everywhere. I didn't want to go out in the paddocks to put out hay for the horses (and just as well I didn't the wind blew the Hay-Hut away down the paddock), then I didn't want to go back to the house it was so intense. But I also didn't want to get stuck at the barn for a couple hrs at night, so I made a mad dash for the house - covered those 400' in no time hahaha. And down came the rain woohoo! and the wind! and there went my hay hut....

Gone with the wind!

You have such a way with words

74F. Wind advisory AGAIN. 25-30 with 40-50 mph gusts.

Too bad I didn't get here to say what it was in Cancun! Usually highs in the mid-80s and humid, lows in the high 70s/low 80s. Just got back last night.

It's good to see you back, Debbie! I'll bet the silkie babies are thrilled.

 

[Nym]

Yes I do now, I live in the middle of tornado zone here, every year one rips through along the path between the Great Lakes from the severe thunderstorms that develop from the cold water and the warm air, and also big storms coming up from down in the southern US mixing with cold air from the north here - some real crackers of thunderstorms!

We had a real glorious thunderstorm on the 9th of April here - right at dusk, the lightning was ferocious - I was at the barn and really a bit scared of the lighting it was hitting everywhere. I didn't want to go out in the paddocks to put out hay for the horses (and just as well I didn't the wind blew the Hay-Hut away down the paddock), then I didn't want to go back to the house it was so intense. But I also didn't want to get stuck at the barn for a couple hrs at night, so I made a mad dash for the house - covered those 400' in no time hahaha. And down came the rain woohoo! and the wind! and there went my hay hut....

Gone with the wind!

Wow, i didn't know Canada got tornadoes. My dogs love seeing me suddenly running to the chook house and back lol

 

[Nym]

Sunday 28th April 8.56a.m. Sunny, calm, very heavy dew. 3.7 / 5.5kph N, Hg 59%, 20.4C / 68.7F top of 23C / 73F. Mostly sunny.

Moon is 84.7% sighted setting WSW

East Kimberley desert channel systems come to life following biggest wet season in decades​

23 hours ago​

East Kimberley channels have left a green mark on the desert landscape. (ABC Kimberley: Alys Marshall)

On the verge of two deserts in Australia's remote north, channels that usually lay dusty and dormant are alight with green.

They splay out across the red dirt of the Paruku Indigenous Protection Area in WA's Kimberley region like veins, pumping life into the country.

The land here is fed predominantly by dry floods that begin hundreds of kilometres to the north-east, when wet season rainfall fills the Sturt Creek in the Northern Territory.

This water slowly flows southwards, branching out into watercourses spanning kilometres and eventually reaching Paruku, or Lake Gregory.

Jamie Brown has been a Paruku Ranger for nearly 20 years. In his time living and working on the edge of the lake, he's never seen it this full.

"This water brings life, it just regenerates the whole country," he said.

"We've seen it in its bad times, where the lake really has no water at all.

"And now to see this water again, everyone's really happy, getting out on country more, fishing and swimming and taking the kids out."

Birdwatchers' paradise​

It's not just people that revel in the thriving freshwater environment.

More than 100,000 birds will visit the lake system in wet years like this.

"They come with the monsoon rains when the big storms come and they migrate across the ocean with the winds and end up on the shores of Lake Paruku," Mr Brown said.

With Paruku located 600 kilometres from the nearest ocean, the journey for many of these birds is especially epic.

"Asian plovers and even the seagull make it this far on winds to the lake," Mr Brown said.

"And then we have all our normal birds that live here like the pelicans and swans and ducks nesting too."

Ongoing benefits to the land​

Those on surrounding cattle stations have also welcomed the overland flow.

Hayden Sale manages the pastoral company that subleases Lake Gregory station, which borders the Paruku IPA.

"It is somewhat similar to the channels of Queensland that make their way to Lake Eyre, and a similar arid environment," Mr Sale said.

"You've got to have the right conditions, and this year we've got them."

But managing cattle in a waterlogged environment comes with challenges.

"If you're not right on top of it [the cattle] can get stuck on islands and run out of feed," he said.

"So we are regularly checking them and walking or swimming them to where they need to be to make sure they're safe."

As the water recedes, the land continues to benefit.

"When it becomes very shallow, only a couple of feet deep in a lot of spaces, the grass underneath actually greens up and grows," Mr Sale said..

"That water provides us with probably a couple of years worth of feed behind it."

But for now, Mr Brown and other traditional owners who call Paruku country home, the water is there to enjoy.

"We are all back on the diet of eating fish," Mr Brown said.

"There's a lot of people out fishing now and catching a bucketload of spangled perch, enough to feed their family.

"And it's free and it's fun, out on country."

ABC

 

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