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Old 31-01-2009, 09:53 AM
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the heat continues, yesterday in the shade on my deck it cracked 46.6 , even though melb should get under 40 it will go over here.

Melb is on the edge of the bay the slightest sea breeze drops a few degrees for a few K's inland ( only a few) so it can be decieving.


Adelaide....... apart from the fishing offshore why would anybody live there ?
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Old 31-01-2009, 11:04 AM
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Look on the bright side footy starts soon then winter will be apon us then we can all start heating our rooms up to stay confortable again.

In the middle of june everyone will be saying its to cold it just goes round and round.
Cheers Kev.
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Old 02-02-2009, 02:04 AM
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^^^ winter nights are the ultimate for stargazing Nothing beats a crisp clear june night under the Sco/Sag milkyway with a flask of Hot Chocolate and Coffee

Some weatherwatches are saying that Saturday could be very hot in Melbourne.

I havent had the scope out at all during this heat, despite clear skies, as seeing and transparency are usually shoddy in such conditions. A few nights ago however, transparecny was beautiful, but unfortunately I was too tired to go out.

Give me a crisp cool autumn night hunting galaxies any day
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Old 02-02-2009, 01:47 PM
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I think I am living on Venus... even the sky is like pea soup. I don't agree on winter being good for observing though. Even on clear nights it usually still looks a bit foggy.
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Old 02-02-2009, 03:20 PM
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^^ Not here. Fog isn't an issue as much as cloud is, but from my own observations, winter is a winner when it comes to transparency.
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Old 02-02-2009, 03:41 PM
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^^ yep I hate John Brumby, hate him like hell. Everytime I see him or Lyn Kosky on TV, my blood pressure triples. He and his bud Bracksy had 10 years to fix these transportation issues, bloody 10 years. Ofcourse, they did absolutely nothing except using lip service to make it appear they are doing something.

I'll leave it here, because the stuff I could say about this mob will no doubt get me banned!!!!
These sort of comments a the greatest pile of crap I have read in a long while. It is extremely easy to blame Government for every woe and heart ache we have but when it all boils down to it we would be the first to complain if the government of the time increased costs to each and everyone of us to cover the type of situations we are having at the moment. Public outcry would dwarf the outcry at the moment if we were each charged an extra hundred dollars a year to prevent these once in a hundred year events.

It is also easy for government to turn around and blame the corporate sector for failing to meet unrealistic targets during unusual events such as this. Corporate Australia will only invest money if it can see a return on expenditure and government were the first ?corporate entity to sell off all these services, rail, water, electricity etc because they couldn't afford to keep it and in most cases couldn't afford to maintain it.
Take a look at Electricity supply. Some of you may remeber Jeff selling off the state electricity commission within Victoria because it had grown into an entity which was bigger and more powerful than government. It also was the only state instrumentality which made an operating profit each and every year and propped up several other instrumentalities. It was the logical thing to sell as a profit could be expected from it's sale. In the process, the expansion and future planning for the states electricity supplies were forgotten. No corporate entity is going to feed money into future supply protection, ie building new stations until such time as a new station will show a profit on it's balance sheet.
Privatisation was good from a point of keeping costs down and government regulation has done this, but to future proof the state is the exact opposite.
No body complained about public transport until petrol prices and parking costs drove them onto the trains and trams. Support and use is the only way to justify upgrades to a very expensive and quite vast system which was sold in a very poor condition. At least the government of the day imposed some performance targets on the public transport network.

All these events are short lived. Will be forgotten about by most people in a short period and when it all boils down events such as this are unexpected and near impossible to fix or prevent without you and I paying very dearly for it.
Australias infrastructure is screwed and the blame must lie with all governments old and new. Compared to the rest of the world our public networks are a joke.
Who can we blame if blame must be apportioned. NO ONE BUT OURSELVES. We vote them in ,we wear there stuff ups.
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Old 02-02-2009, 04:51 PM
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Whats amazing is Tasmania temperature records that have been broken

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Thursday, 29 January 2009

MEDIA RELEASE - TASMANIA / ANTARCTICA REGIONAL OFFICE

Tasmania records all-time record high temperature for the state
The hot conditions currently affecting southern Australian mainland states extended to Tasmania by 4pm today.

A northerly airflow brought all-time record maximum temperatures to northern Tasmania in particular, with temperatures up to 19 degrees Celsius above the January average.

At 3.39 this afternoon, Flinders Island airport reached 41.5 degrees, an all-time record high temperature for Tasmania. The previous record was 40.8 degrees set in Hobart on 4 January 1976. The previous record for Flinders Island was 38.8 degrees, set in January 2003.

Other extreme hot spots around Tasmania today included the Fingal Valley, where Fingal recorded a maximum of 40.6 degrees, the town's highest since records began in 1986.

Launceston recorded 36.9 degrees, the highest for the current site which opened in 1980. The temperature didn’t quite reach the record of 37.3 degrees recorded at the Pumping Station in 1908.

Launceston airport recorded a maximum of 37.2 degrees, its hottest day since 1943, while Marrawah in the northwest of the state reached 33.0 degrees, it’s hottest January temperature since 1972.

The outlook for tomorrow is for similar conditions, while hot conditions are expected to persist in the central northern areas on Saturday.

Thats just astounding, how land so far south and surrounded by ocean , particularily places like Flinders Is. Airport.
Scott
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Old 02-02-2009, 06:15 PM
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Was bloody hot in Launceston; I think it was actually hotter here on Friday (39 degrees) and was again ~38 degrees on Saturday. Yet just north of Launceston at Low Head (~50km) it was only 25 degrees

On the East coast, Scamander, Fingal and St Helens all recorded 41-42
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Old 03-02-2009, 01:10 AM
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Scamander had a high of 42.2ºC on Friday, now officially the record highest temp in Tasmania.

Saturday looks ripe for another blast of heat for the southeast. If it's not cloudy, temps of 45C could occur in Melbourne and indeed across much of northern and eastrn Vic.
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