Its snowing, and i mean snowing

[Ace]

well its eased off now but 20mins ago it was a sea of white, and it was propper snow not that sleet stuff, full on perfect snow flakes.

Jeez i love lithgow.

[29dinosaur]

snowing on and off in crookwell too

[JDNSW]

well its eased off now but 20mins ago it was a sea of white, and it was propper snow not that sleet stuff, full on perfect snow flakes.

Jeez i love lithgow.

BOM forecast "some early snow possible about higher ground" - not sure I would have called this early, nor would I have classed Lithgow as "higher ground". Methinks a bit cooler than forecast!

John

[long stroke]

global warming or should i say global cooling:D

[incisor]

its that new ice age they were on about in the early seventies finally getting here!

[Bigbjorn]

Oh Dear. Poor cockroaches. I am sitting here in shorts and short sleeved shirt. Bright sunshine and 28 degrees today in Brisbane. You can always move house.

[simonr23]

i wish it would snow here :(

[Utemad]

Yep it was a hot day today but supposed to be a cold one tonight. Spent the day working on the FILs sail boat. Might go sailing Wednesday :)

However it would be awesome to live somewhere it snowed too.

[Tank]

Oh Dear. Poor cockroaches. I am sitting here in shorts and short sleeved shirt. Bright sunshine and 28 degrees today in Brisbane. You can always move house.
Gee, a couple a weeks back in Qld, it was p......g down and Fraser island nearly got blown away, perfect one day, Cyclone the next, LOL, Regards Frank.

[master chief]

Hello all,its snowing here to,went to work but cant do much with pine trees covered in snow!.beautifull weather,i hate the hot days.:cool:

[RonMcGr]

Wow, lots of white fluffy stuff that we don't get in Brisbane :D
Would have liked that today, my bald head spot was getting burnt and I was working up a "lather" just checking the wiring on a mates Caravan!!

Thankfully it is now sorted out.
Previous owner thought extending the wires by twisting them and putting plastic tape over it would do... :mad:

I hate the mess "dodgey DIY" guys do..

Ron

[d3funct]

Put this under your Greenhouse gases and smoke it...

'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age' | NEWS.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23583382-38198,00.html)



SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.

Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.

"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3C higher than the long-term average.

A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.

Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.

But scientists from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.

The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.

Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "

My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.

[simonr23]

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age. i forget the details now, but a few years ago i studied up on it for an assignment. it's something to do with the melting ice caps release cool water into certain ocean currents and it has an effect on evaporation or something, which effects clouds-rainfall-sun penetration,etc. one of those visious(sp?) cycle setups. i'm sure someone here can elaborate and correct my erors. :)

i still wish it would snow here in adelaide though.

[RonMcGr]

Well, the earth will probably go through another ice age :D

Scientists have found million year old human fossils with very good dental work :D

We just send ourselves into self destruct mode and start again...

Do do do .. bring on the X Files :eek:

[LandyAndy]

You know the drill Ace.
Without pics it didnt happen!!!
Andrew

[lro11]

Oh Dear. Poor cockroaches. I am sitting here in shorts and short sleeved shirt. Bright sunshine and 28 degrees today in Brisbane. You can always move house.

It is supposed to be the coldest night in nine years in Brisbane tonight

[cookiesa]

I'm with LandyAndy.. where's the pics

as for wanting snow in southern Adelaide HELL YEAH! (You should see our street and how steep the drive is!)

[disco2hse]

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age.

Harhar. So global warming will cause an ice age now :rolleyes:

And its all because I keep driving that dirty big V8 and diesel, and I insist on using a wood fire to keep warm - in fact I insist on staying warm and not shivering in the dark but guilt free :mad:

Sheese I remember the dire warnings in the 70's about how we were all going to freeze to death, or starve to death, or run out of water,...

I don't so much mind the guilt mongers. You can ignore them like the Joho's who knock on the door, but I get :censored: damned annoyed when politicians take that as an excuse to slap another flamin' tax on :wallbash:

[LandyAndy]

Interestin this global warming etc.
The southwest of WA has had record rainfall so far this year.
Everything down here is so green,the sod busters are going to have a bumper year if it keeps raining,much of the crops are almost all in around here and its alot earlier than their normal start up!!!
Andrew

[simonr23]

i'm a weather nerd, not from having an abundance of knowledge, but just that its something that interests me. i was saying to my gf that since we had such an extreme end to summer here in adelaide, i think we'll likely get an extreme winter. so far, while its only mid-autumn, i have a (hopefully correct) feeling that we will get a cold and wet winter down here. we need it, and now that i'm a LR owner, i want it! well maybe it doesnt need to be too cold(unless it means snow!!!) :)

[Debacle]

It is supposed to be the coldest night in nine years in Brisbane tonight

Maybe the coldest APRIL night in nine years maybe.

I am sitting here in shorts and tshirt having an ice cold beer, no heaters on.

Whats this snow stuff these guys are on about ????

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Maybe the coldest APRIL night in nine years maybe.

I am sitting here in shorts and tshirt having an ice cold beer, no heaters on.

Whats this snow stuff these guys are on about ????

HEY ARE YOU FROM VICTORIA? :wasntme: I'm only a few k from you and it's 16.4 now and going to get down to 10 overnight.

It might as well be snowing as far as this queenslander is concerned! :D:wasntme:

[LSBob]

Our temperature tonight will drop to 21C. If it gets any colder we will have to turn the fans off.

[dragonwagon]

Yesterday morning, Dargo High Plains. Beautiful:)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/04/32.jpg

[Debacle]

HEY ARE YOU FROM VICTORIA? :wasntme: I'm only a few k from you and it's 16.4 now and going to get down to 10 overnight.

It might as well be snowing as far as this queenslander is concerned! :D:wasntme:

Maybe I am just in denial.

Got to admit it is starting to get chilly now.

We might actually have a winter this year, havent had a proper one in ages, not that I am looking forward to it mind you.

[Slunnie]

well its eased off now but 20mins ago it was a sea of white, and it was propper snow not that sleet stuff, full on perfect snow flakes.

Jeez i love lithgow.
Sounds like you got some nice stuff happening. Down town Orange had some minor hail like snow, but nothing to change the colour of the grass.

[p38arover]

You're making me feel cold. I had better put some clothes on. :eek:

[EchiDna]

yawn - it's 28 degrees and 93% rh here right now... after 11pm at night

I find anything under 24 degrees COLD now... except when I go skiing, then -5 feels just right :)

[Slunnie]

It was 4 when I was driving home from work today. :o

[Chilly]

Hi,

Seems like a nice cool ENGLISH summers day to me....cold??!!! Not yet!!! HA HA!

On a more serious note.....

Being new to Australia...1st winter...I have a few concerns about going out in the Highland. Especially with the snow.

So looking for some advise.

What should I carry in the car with me?
What should I do to the car before leaving?
Etc Etc.

I know all the basics of checking oils, water, antifreeze etc...but what more should I be doing.

Long time since we had a decent snowfall where I lived in te UK.

Thanks all for tha GREATttttttttttt advise that I know I will get....O and the funnies too.

Cheers

Chilly

[disco2hse]

You're making me feel cold. I had better put some clothes on. :eek:

Eeewww thanks for the thought Ron :p

[amtravic1]

Yesterday morning, Dargo High Plains. Beautiful:)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/04/32.jpg

You were not far from me on Sunday. I spent most of the day around Humphrey River, Water Spur and Tea Tree Range where it started snowing early morning and was still snowing around 8pm when we left. No pictures yet as my camera like everything else I took with with me is wet, muddy or both.

Ian

[HAK]

it explanis why it called around my way

[rick130]

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age. i forget the details now, but a few years ago i studied up on it for an assignment. it's something to do with the melting ice caps release cool water into certain ocean currents and it has an effect on evaporation or something, which effects clouds-rainfall-sun penetration,etc. one of those visious(sp?) cycle setups. i'm sure someone here can elaborate and correct my erors. :)

i still wish it would snow here in adelaide though.


IIRC the melting of glaciers feeding huge amounts of fresh water into the North Atlantic was diluting the salt levels in the major deep ocean current that runs from the South through the North Atlantic.

This current feeds a lot of warm water north and it keeps Europe's weather temperate. By changing the salt levels in the current it changed its behaviour (can't remember how now, think it ran deeper due to lower salt levels) and so the current stopped feeding this warm water so far north.
As a consequence, Europe starts to freeze over, voila, a mini ice age.
It was proposed this was a natural cycle, ice ages are anyway, we were just speeding it up with our greenhouse gasses.

[Bigbjorn]

Snow is cold. Snow is wet. Snow is a PIA. Try living through a winter in the USA & Canada snow belts and you will loathe and hate snow to the greatest depth of human feelings. Snow affects all aspects of life in these areas, closes roads, schools, businesses, social events, etc. Makes extra work for the health system with illnesses, injuries, frostbite, hypothermia. I don't know anyone amongst friends and acquaintances in these regions who likes snow. One friend in Yonkers, NY, told me that in the 2005-6 winter there was not one working day from late November to mid March that 100% of his staff were able to get to work, and when they did, they have to shovel snow from the doors, vehicle gates, and driveways to open the shop.

[solmanic]

SNOW = FUN :banana:

[agrojnr]

Well since getting back from the UK its done nothing but rain here in WA but I did see snow for the first time in the UK (Warwickshire West Midlands) see below
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/04/27.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/04/28.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/04/29.jpg

Adam

[cookiesa]

Great photo's everyone!

But see we dont HAVE to live in the snow for weeks on end... we go for a play

We're thining of taking the kids to the snow (probably just Mt Buffalo.. cost) during the school holidays (twins 5 and daughter 2) for a play

[The ho har's]

Hi girls & guys

this morning was the first time I put a jumper on to go to work. It was 5 dec on my verandah at 4.30a.m. but......this afternoon is lovely.


Mrs ho har :)

[EchiDna]

jackets, jumpers.... geez haven't bought/worn one of those on 12 years :)

I feel unlucky I have to wear a long sleeve shirt to the office, but the bloody aircon makes it so cold you need sleeves!

[Captain_Rightfoot]

My nephew just sent me some photos of snow in Redmond (US). It's snowing everywhere apparently. It must be that global warming again :eek::wasntme: