The old adage that Melbourne suffers from a Permanent Nuclear Winter is true.
warning... don't look if you're squeamish, the following link is extremely graphic and could send you catatonic like Ned in South Park if you live in this subarctic maritime climate and look at it.
Didn't stop me imaging, even took pictures through the earthquake! The seeing wasn't that bad, I never trust those maps, use the Mk I eyeball, look up and see what you can see. The AOL wasn't working overtime, so it all worked out well.
Didn't stop me imaging, even took pictures through the earthquake! The seeing wasn't that bad, I never trust those maps, use the Mk I eyeball, look up and see what you can see. The AOL wasn't working overtime, so it all worked out well.
Cheers
Stuart
Last time I set up in such conditions, I was back inside within the hour. The only thing worse than being under a massive jetstream is being on the boundary of the jetstream and stable skies. Conflicting airmasses, turbulence galore.
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Originally Posted by tlgerdes
Just looks like normal Melbourne weather
It looks like Melbourne weather in the ice-age. Seems to get worse with every passing year. In the 20 years I lived in this putrid climate, I've never seen a forecast as cold as that, nor the amount of cloudiness so far this winter. Currently browsing SEEK for jobs in Darwin, WA and Queensland. I'm done with this endless subarctic drizzle, constant overcast slate-grey layer cloud sunless crap
Really going to hit it head on now, more determined than ever to get outta this rut
Last edited by pgc hunter; 21-06-2012 at 01:58 AM.
I actually look forward to your nuclear winter posts each year Sab .
Not because I personally wish crap weather on anyone , but because it signals change , the endless summer rain ( pretty much 5 months of it )
up in the north has eased and gone somewhere else (south), take care mate and get out when you can
Seems to get worse with every passing year. In the 20 years I lived in this putrid climate, I've never seen a forecast as cold as that, nor the amount of cloudiness so far this winter. Currently browsing SEEK for jobs in Darwin, WA and Queensland. I'm done with this endless subarctic drizzle, constant overcast slate-grey layer cloud sunless crap.
Subarctic? Melbourne?? You should try growing up near 60 degrees north, where I come from! Here there's hardly a frost to speak of and I've had several excellent transpararent clear nights this past New Moon. That's several more than in grey weather back home, where typical cold grey daytime winter maxes are <4C and can last several weeks under stalled weather systems (Australian weather systems almost never stall for more than a few days). Good nights would always be frosty ones (see below). And when it clears up here, there's the centre of the Galaxy overhead!!
Pour yourself a wee malt to warm yourself this cold rainy midwinter's day, don't forget we're just 38 degrees from the equator and have lots of warm clear skies to look forward to in the coming spring and summer. Clear skies .
It looks like Melbourne weather in the ice-age. ......
Actually I think you'd like the ice age better. Not that much colder but much much drier. So dry that there were sand dunes blowing about in northern Tasmania. It used to be thought that it was windier but we now know for sure that peak wind speeds were no higher and winds may not have even been more common.
And for the committed carnivores there was all that megafauna running about (or lumbering about).
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Originally Posted by pgc hunter
Really going to hit it head on now, more determined than ever to get outta this rut
It sounds like you should. If it's getting you down and you can make the move then do it. If you don't you could wind up like me, and I'm sure many others, where moving is not an option.
The bad weather outside is called winter. It happens each year around this time . Global warming is (of course) something else entirely, and continues, unaffected by cold rain in Melbourne! May was the second hottest for the globe on record, a wee bit concerning for an ENSO-neutral month following La Nina. The coming year will be "interesting".
I doubt Darwin's wet season is cloudier than Melbourne's winters. I'd rather the 3-4 months of thunderstorms, lightningg and heavy tropical showers. Far, far more exciting than Melbourne's 3-4 months of cold drizzle and slate-grey overcast boring layer cloud.
Last edited by pgc hunter; 21-06-2012 at 11:30 PM.
You should try growing up near 60 degrees north, where I come from! Here there's hardly a frost to speak of and I've had several excellent transpararent clear nights this past New Moon. That's several more than in grey weather back home, where typical cold grey daytime winter maxes are <4C and can last several weeks under stalled weather systems (Australian weather systems almost never stall for more than a few days). Good nights would always be frosty ones (see below). And when it clears up here, there's the centre of the Galaxy overhead!!
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