Thread: Climate Change and our Land of Fire, Flood and Drought.

Originally Posted by Eevo

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I did, thanks!

Originally Posted by 101RRS

As I know nothing about all this - I would believe the BOM statisticians over you Arthur.

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Not sure how to answer this.
The implication there is that somehow I'm wrong, or lying, or messing with the facts, or something.

All I've said is that there are more stations that report the weather than previously and that the weather stations report more regularly(ie. the data now is at a higher level of precision).
Both of those statements are true, yet somehow you will look to doubt basically anything I say .. simply because you seem to think I have some opposing philosophical difference to yours?

Not hard to accept .. there are far more weather stations now, historically speaking.
Back in the early days of measurements, they never measured every half hour. Stations were (manually)recorded either hourly, or daily, or somewhere in between.

A lot of stations are modern, many closed down, and that data may or may not be used.

As the latest link to the latest hottest day on record says ... "takes the maximum temperatures recorded in about 700 locations...."
Back in the early 1900's there weren't 700 weather stations to record from. Now there are(in fact over a thousand, IIRC).
How does correlate to my point that the precision of data is higher now than it was previously?
So they don't have the same level of data recorded from the late 1800's basically to the 1960-1970's.

As another example, there are gaps in the records too. A lot of data missing from 'Adelaide' too. Adelaide is recorded from multiple sites, that changed over time too.

Scientists fear surge in supersized bushfires that create their own violent thunderstorms

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Originally Posted by Eevo

having hot days in summer. never have we experienced this before.

When i lived in Melbourne, we had a hot day, a cold day, a wet day, a dry day and then a dust storm day, all in the same day.

Surprising that Vic didn't declare today a Code Red(Catastophic) considering the potential.
Weather in the mid 40's across the state, and strong N-NW winds.

Just had a quick peek, and only a couple of grass fires out close west(near Ballarat) .. thank god!

With the Gospers Mountain fire cutting the Great Western Highway this afternoon, and the Bells line of Road and the railway already closed, and with thick smoke causing intermittent flight cancellations, communications between the Central West and Sydney are getting a bit precarious. You can still get through via the Golden Highway and going via Newcastle, but this route is likely to be cut at any moment in a number of places either on the Golden Hwy or the Pacific. The Putty Road has been closed for some time.

Going south to Yass and via the Hume is still viable but the Hume has been closed intermittently by the Green Wattle Creek fire, and may well get closed again - and as of an hour and a half ago, there is a new fire right on the highway. The RFS and RMS maps do not show the highway closed there, but this may be simply because the maps are not quite up to date.

Continuing on to Cooma and down to Bega and up the Prince's is still possible, but the Prince's has been closed by the Currowan fire and is likely to be again.

With a lot of businesses relying on daily transport from Sydney, this could lead pretty rapidly to serious supply problems.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

With the Gospers Mountain fire cutting the Great Western Highway this afternoon, and the Bells line of Road and the railway already closed, and with thick smoke causing intermittent flight cancellations, communications between the Central West and Sydney are getting a bit precarious. You can still get through via the Golden Highway and going via Newcastle, but this route is likely to be cut at any moment in a number of places either on the Golden Hwy or the Pacific. The Putty Road has been closed for some time.

Going south to Yass and via the Hume is still viable but the Hume has been closed intermittently by the Green Wattle Creek fire, and may well get closed again - and as of an hour and a half ago, there is a new fire right on the highway. The RFS and RMS maps do not show the highway closed there, but this may be simply because the maps are not quite up to date.

Continuing on to Cooma and down to Bega and up the Prince's is still possible, but the Prince's has been closed by the Currowan fire and is likely to be again.

With a lot of businesses relying on daily transport from Sydney, this could lead pretty rapidly to serious supply problems.

Maybe Bathurst, Goulburn, Sydney. Turns 2:45 into a 4:30 trip to Sydneys north. 5:20 if you have to go via Wollongong.