Permanent Nuclear Winter - Page 2

pgc hunter · #21 09-09-2012, 03:59 PM

Well, after week after torturous week of nothing but solid Melbourne Cloud and rainy drizzle muck, tonight was FINALLY supposed to be clear, and well it is at the moment. So I make up an observing list. Check the southern horizon, what do I see? High cloud. Check the satpic, and sure enough, yes there is a mass of high cloud moving right in.

'Scuse me while I go and break something on my way to Dan Murphys.

DavidU (Dave) · #22 09-09-2012, 04:13 PM

Melbourneites are cursed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pgc hunter · #23 09-09-2012, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidU

Melbourneites are cursed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just got back from Dan Murphys and the high cloud is now twice as high above the horizon

Yes, arrives just in time.

Well, this abortion of yet another promising session was the last opportunity for another googolplex centuries I am sure of that.

pgc hunter · #24 11-09-2012, 12:07 AM

hmmm, tonight was forecast to be clear, so why am I seeing full overcast? Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot that Melbourne is the world's largest Antarctic reseach station and has been annexed by Macquarie Island (along with its 300 days of rain per year)

But I guess there is no point it being clear, as there is a 300km/h jetstream overhead according to Skippysky (burgandy with Melbourne at the epicentre on the jetstream map).

pgc hunter · #25 12-09-2012, 11:57 PM

The weekend was supposed to be sunny, now they've downgraded the forecast to the usual stupid rain, while Perfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff and Sydney will remain sunny and hot as per usual.

Time to sell my stuff and use the proceeds to GTFO of this cold subarctic maritime oceanic cold front factory before every last hair on my frayed noggin gets bleached slate-grey like Melbourne's skies?

mental4astro (Alexander) · #26 13-09-2012, 12:29 AM

Even if Sydney is "perfect", I've got a wedding to attend. May as well be cloudy.

But it will be a blast dancing with the kids! THAT I'm looking forward to!

pgc hunter · #27 13-09-2012, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by mental4astro

Even if Sydney is "perfect", I've got a wedding to attend. May as well be cloudy.

But it will be a blast dancing with the kids! THAT I'm looking forward to!

Compared to Melbourne it is a paradise. Fair chance it'll be sunny going by Sydney's current track record. If it were in Melbourne, you'd be knee deep in mud, and that's if you were lucky enough not to get washed out by the incessant rain here just like I am when I attempt to walk my dog in the park (for the last 4 months nonetheless)

Mudbourne ftw! Used to love playing in mud as a child, little did I know back then that I lived in Australia's best climate for mud. Anyone that lives anywhere else in Australia (except coastal Vic and Tasmania), count yer blessings...

mental4astro (Alexander) · #28 13-09-2012, 10:30 AM

By the way, Sab, you still have a long time still left owing on bad weather because of your new SDM! You've brought it upon yourself my friend,

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Fellow melbournites, you know who to blame. It's gonna take a few sacrifical telescopes to be smashed up to deal with Sab's folly

If all you've got is mud, then use it to make an observatory/windbreak with mudbricks! Use it to your advantage,

. Nothing will peeve the weather gods more!

andyc (Andy) · #29 13-09-2012, 01:44 PM

Not sure where all this bad weather is? Seen several pretty nice evenings in the last week or so, had the little scope out a couple of times to enjoy the sights of the Milky Way (including that lovely evening where there was rumour of high cloud). But maybe my standards of clear sky are lower than Sab's! And definitely a decent chance of some clear skies at the weekend, looking at the forecast.

As they say, clear skies to all!

goober (Doug) · #30 13-09-2012, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by pgc hunter

hmmm, tonight was forecast to be clear, so why am I seeing full overcast? Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot that Melbourne is the world's largest Antarctic reseach station and has been annexed by Macquarie Island (along with its 300 days of rain per year)

BoM was saying on Monday that rain was coming into Melbourne on Wednesday evening/night. Bang on, as usual

You should check out ecmwf.int ... you can see the weather coming 7-10 days out, and the do have the best model.

andyc (Andy) · #31 13-09-2012, 10:34 PM

It's clear outside again, get your scope out, Sab!!

(sorry, couldn't resist

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pgc hunter · #32 15-09-2012, 03:50 PM

Alex, I guess my new scope curse debt is a year per inch of aperture. Should've just ordered a 1 incher

Doug I check skippysky and BSCH's satellite loop to predict the night ahead,. Skippysky's cloud prediction is accurate for a good 24 hours ahead. BSCH's hi res satellite loops are great for predicting where incoming cloud bands will be in the next few hours.

Example - today. Lots of high cloud near Adelaide blooming faster than a 50 megaton mushroom cloud and moving towards yours truly

Estimating the distance covered by this filth over a time period of 4 hours on the satpic loop for example, I estimate it will be over Melbourne by midnight.

The BOM's predictions of sunshine a few days ahead invariably degenerate into "cloudy with showers" by the time the day actually arrives. Probably just because it's Melbourne though.