Go Back   IceInSpace > General Astronomy > General Chat
Register FAQ Calendar Today's Posts Search

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread
  #21  
Old 01-09-2009, 02:17 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidU View Post
mmmmm yep. We can't swear here can we?
only if you want to forfeit your forum membership....

To rub the lemon juice into the stab wound, the entire state is covered in Melbourne cloud

Tomorrow the forecast says "sunny", although I'm sure it'll cloud up right on sunset as it always does, as the forecast for thursday is already cloudy and ofcourse for the whole week thereafter

you know it's bad when there is wall to wall cloud and rain forecast during full moon

Last edited by pgc hunter; 01-09-2009 at 03:47 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #22  
Old 01-09-2009, 04:22 PM
DavidU's Avatar
DavidU (Dave)
Like to learn

DavidU is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: melbourne
Posts: 4,835
Quote:
Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
only if you want to forfeit your forum membership....

To rub the lemon juice into the stab wound, the entire state is covered in Melbourne cloud

Tomorrow the forecast says "sunny", although I'm sure it'll cloud up right on sunset as it always does, as the forecast for thursday is already cloudy and ofcourse for the whole week thereafter

you know it's bad when there is wall to wall cloud and rain forecast during full moon
I think I may have to go online and use one of those remote telescopes, it is becoming way to frustrating weather wise.
Reply With Quote
  #23  
Old 01-09-2009, 05:00 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Maybe we should recruit the inventor of insecticide to invent some Cloudicide.

Melbourne weather is cruel and unusual punishment.
Reply With Quote
  #24  
Old 02-09-2009, 03:40 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Weeeellll well well, just as I predicted, a whole stack of cloud is tearing into Victoria at supersonic speed, crossing the SA border at 14:30, just in time to reach Melbourne by nightfall 7Timer backs up my theory, showing full overcast from midnight thru till 22:00 Thursday.
Reply With Quote
  #25  
Old 02-09-2009, 07:16 PM
Jen's Avatar
Jen
Moving to Pandora

Jen is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Swan Hill
Posts: 7,102
Quote:
Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
only if you want to forfeit your forum membership....
woah i could never do that
Reply With Quote
  #26  
Old 03-09-2009, 08:42 AM
mithrandir's Avatar
mithrandir (Andrew)
Registered User

mithrandir is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Glenhaven
Posts: 4,161
Last night was a bit cloudy (understatement for the Melburnians) with no wind at ground level. A few thousand metres up was another thing.
This is six stacked frames taken through what was the closest I saw to a hole, each 0.1sec with total elapsed time about 3 seconds. The clouds are aligned, not the Moon or Jupiter.
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (clouds-20090902-222553-56s.jpg)
184.3 KB33 views
Reply With Quote
  #27  
Old 03-09-2009, 08:47 PM
MrB's Avatar
MrB (Simon)
Old Man Yells at Cloud

MrB is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Rockingham WA
Posts: 3,435
Aligned on the clouds? Thats pretty cool!
Reply With Quote
  #28  
Old 03-09-2009, 08:54 PM
DavidU's Avatar
DavidU (Dave)
Like to learn

DavidU is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: melbourne
Posts: 4,835
The moon is so bright tonight I think I need sun screen. At least it's not cloudy.
Reply With Quote
  #29  
Old 09-09-2009, 02:11 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
had lots of stupid ugly drizzle for days now, Melbourne style.

Continual overcast for the last several nights now. No wonder I've been smashed for those last several nights.

I hope summer is extremely hot and sunny everyday for months on end, hopefully we get several 40-45C days. I don't want to see any rain or damn cloud for hundreds of days on end.

Nothing less will compensate for this hellhole of a winter

IYA2009 = cloudiest year on record (unless ofcourse if you live in Sydney, where its been the sunniest and warmest winter on record as per usual)
Reply With Quote
  #30  
Old 09-09-2009, 02:22 PM
toryglen-boy's Avatar
toryglen-boy (Duncan)
Scotland to Australia

toryglen-boy is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Canberra
Posts: 1,645
i feel your pain mate, but there are others less fortunate than you. try being an amateur astronomer from the UK, i come from a place where it rains .... 300+ days of the year.

Reply With Quote
  #31  
Old 09-09-2009, 02:24 PM
astronut's Avatar
astronut (John)
2'sCompany3's a StarParty

astronut is offline
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Eagle Vale
Posts: 1,249
"IYA2009 = cloudiest year on record (unless ofcourse if you live in Sydney, where its been the sunniest and warmest winter on record as per usual) "

But Sab..................would you believe that almost all the 3/4 moon and New Moon weekends have ended up cloudy!!
"NOT HAPPY, JAN"
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old 09-09-2009, 02:58 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Quote:
Originally Posted by astronut View Post
"IYA2009 = cloudiest year on record (unless ofcourse if you live in Sydney, where its been the sunniest and warmest winter on record as per usual) "

But Sab..................would you believe that almost all the 3/4 moon and New Moon weekends have ended up cloudy!!
"NOT HAPPY, JAN"
Well here every bloody 1/4, 1/2 3/4 moon full moon and new moon has been cloudy for the last 5-6 months straight

Wish we had Death Valley's climate, wish it was 45C with NO RAIN and NO CLOUD for months on end
Reply With Quote
  #33  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:15 PM
AstralTraveller's Avatar
AstralTraveller (David)
Registered User

AstralTraveller is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 3,814
Quote:
Originally Posted by toryglen-boy View Post
i feel your pain mate, but there are others less fortunate than you. try being an amateur astronomer from the UK, i come from a place where it rains .... 300+ days of the year.

And yet has less total rain than Sydney - 1200mm vs 760mm. Melbourne is even drier with only 650mm rain per year. Cloud is another matter. For Sydney the number of 'officially' clear days and cloudy days are 103 and 133 respectively while Melbourne is 49 and 179.
Reply With Quote
  #34  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:19 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
The difference is Melbourne gets hundreds of days of insipid ugly drizzle year round, which amounts to next to nothing while Sydney (aka heat,sun and storm capital of the universe) gets its rainfall from heavy showers and thunderstorms

Melbourne is analogous to Scotland while Sydney is a carbon copy of Tunisia
Reply With Quote
  #35  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:21 PM
Moon's Avatar
Moon (James)
This sentence is false

Moon is offline
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,158
Quote:
For Sydney the number of 'officially' clear days and cloudy days are 103 and 133 respectively while Melbourne is 49 and 179.
Thanks for cheering me up.... NOT!
Reply With Quote
  #36  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:21 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Quote:
Originally Posted by toryglen-boy View Post
i feel your pain mate, but there are others less fortunate than you. try being an amateur astronomer from the UK, i come from a place where it rains .... 300+ days of the year.

In Melbourne it's cloudy 365^9999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999 days a year

It cant get worse than this, it really cant. Even my grandma from Hungary who was here from December to June noticed the crap overcast weather here.
Reply With Quote
  #37  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:22 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Quote:
Originally Posted by Moon View Post
Thanks for cheering me up.... NOT!
I'm on my way to a quadruple bypass aswell.

What makes it worse is that this crummy year, Sydney would have a hell of alot more clear skies and us here in Hell would have a hell of alot more cloudy skies.

International Year of Astronomy......I think I'm gonna hurl.
Reply With Quote
  #38  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:30 PM
AstralTraveller's Avatar
AstralTraveller (David)
Registered User

AstralTraveller is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Wollongong
Posts: 3,814
Quote:
Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
The difference is Melbourne gets hundreds of days of insipid ugly drizzle.......
Some might say it matches the residents .... but I wouldn't be so cruel.
Reply With Quote
  #39  
Old 09-09-2009, 03:33 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,988
Quote:
Originally Posted by AstralTraveller View Post
Some might say it matches the residents .... but I wouldn't be so cruel.
Some might say that the residents' mood are a direct product of the evil insipid drizzly grey british weather here. While people in Sydney and Bribane frolick in Bikinis and shorts in the sunshine, we are stuck in trench coats and hoodies like the grim reaper under lead skies and drizzle

Lemon Juice and salt rubbed into flayed skin? This is much worse.
Reply With Quote
  #40  
Old 09-09-2009, 04:03 PM
DavidU's Avatar
DavidU (Dave)
Like to learn

DavidU is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: melbourne
Posts: 4,835
I can't even get a photo of me & my scope for Omaroos compendium.
It's bloody raining all the time.
I might just have to set it all up in the rain and get a pic with an umberella.
Jeezzzzzz
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Tags
jen's ironing, melbourne


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +10. The time is now 08:42 AM.

Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7 | Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Advertisement
Bintel
Advertisement