This is worth reading on traveling to Perth ( don’t know where they are taking the Km from on this link ) cause we’ve traveled over and back to Perth via this highway that’s many many miles of nothing but tree less plains. and very few fuel stops https://www.australia.com/en/trips-and-itineraries/perth-and-surrounds/crossing-the-nullarbor.html as well as one they longest straight roads in the world where you have to be carful just incase the flying doctor needs to land on the road in a case of an emergency. The cliffs of the great Aussie bite is stunning to say the least …got to see whales there right up close to the cliffs @John Brunner
I have them. It will go down to -15F tomorrow. I got myself alpaca socks after my daughter lent me a pair. They Really Work. But for your 5 day winter they might make your feet sweaty.
That's amazing. I've never seen whales. Blue whales or orcas? I was gonna put up a topographical map so folks could get a sense of those vast expanses. There are only a couple of places in the states like that; otherwise, you are mostly in civilization.
Black ice shining in the street. Temperature in the low 20s and not getting above freezing 33 degrees per Alexa. It's 19 degrees now. I called my DIL and told her I won't be picking up my grandson for school today. Granted some main roads are probably salted but to get to them is a risk I don't want to take.
We weren't planning on going anywhere either. Thank the Lord my wife's job is at home. We even have brand new all-terrain snow tires on our vehicle. We haven't got black ice, but it is snowing pretty heavily as I post this.
The occasional light snow predicted last night has turned into snow falling at an inch an hour now. 4-5 inches on the ground at the moment. I will get out to plow in a little while. Wife won't be home until after 1500, so I can put it off until later.
Grey , Humid ….. 88% humidly at 7.45 am …. there was thick fog when I got up an hour ago. It’s very rare for us to get humid weather, we’ve had these conditions for a whole week , I’m not a fan of this type of weather ..love the rain tho Remember its mid Summer in Australia . Photo of the rain catchment ponds that were flooded a few days ago, Most of the water has evaporated
Down to +7 F. this morning. We are still heating with the woodstove until we can get a new furnace installed. It is relatively easy to heat the house when the temps were in the 30s and 40s, but it get progressively more demanding and the temps drop. I just hope we can get things fixed before it drops into the minus 30s or 40s. We can still heat with the stove, but it demands a lot more trip to the woodpile for us old folks. I have enough wood cut to last several weeks even at the low temps, but I just don't want to do it. Wife said she had forgotten how cozy it is to heat with wood, and I had forgotten how big the stove in the house is, as I have been heating my shed and large greenhouse with wood for years, but the stove in the house will take 2 foot logs and a lot of them. I just had forgotten how much wood it would hold at one time.
Here in North/Central Florida we're having a cold streak: daytime upper 50s/lower 60s. We have a few upper 40s/lower50s then some 40s/50s and lower 20s/30s. We are about 70 miles north of citrus and other tropical things. We live on 6 wooded acres; oak, wild cherry, and pine. We too have a (small) wood burner which keeps the house warm. I'm just recovering from some upper body exercise chopping up some of the wood I chain-sawed over the past year. I might add that we had the wood stove installed immediately when we moved here in 2004.