Everyone wants to talk weather part 2

[johobbit]

The heat is on!

Here too, it sure is! Tomorrow may be the hottest day of the summer, with an air temperature of 34C/93F, and the heat index sitting swelteringly at 45C/113F. Oh, joy! Today, I just read, is 91% humidity.

We had a long, lovely rainfall all yesterday morning, which was needed, and with this unstable weather now, thunderstorms are likely to develop later each day. We are to get relief from this oppressive weather on Sunday. Thankfully, this is not one of those 10 day, 2 week heat waves that often accompany this hottest of our months. In fact, next week is supposed to be quite comfortable. Quite amazing for us here in July. Sunday through Monday should bring a fair bit more rain, yay!

[waggawerewolf27]

Lovely to hear you are sufficiently warm in the middle of summer. . Though 45 degrees C does sound a bit too hot for Canada.

Meanwhile, in a continent far away, crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn, in states like Queensland, Northern Territory & Western Australia, up along the Great Dividing Range, as far north as Toowoomba or Kingaroy in Queensland, & even further north, there are temperatures of -10C, -9C, -7C & colder. Your nicely typical North American weather, I presume. Wow! 2C down here, which is a degree colder than yesterday at 7.00 am. Snow in the Snowy mountains actually, which is something to be happy about, the only place where skiing is possible here. But not a trace of a shower, snow or anything else, unfortunately anywhere. Drought is a horrible thing. At least it is too cold for what water storage we have left to evaporate uselessly.

[stargazer]

Sorry to hear about your drought, wagga, but those temperatures sound lovely.

The heat index here today is one of the highest temperatures I've ever experienced, at least here in Minnesota. The high July 19 was 35°C (95°F). With a near-record dew point of 27°C (80°F), the heat index was 46°C (115°F). Whew!

At least the heat will break here soon, unlike areas to the south that may have more days like this.

[Puddleglum]

Hope you have some relief soon wagga.
The heat has broken
At least for today.
The Mrs., and I enjoyed a pleasant evening out side birdwatching of all things. We have a very active pair of Cardinals as neighbors, and the fellow does enjoy breaking into song on occasion. We had a rabbit come rather close while we simply enjoyed the 75F temps with a faint breeze to keep most of the flying pests away. If the weather people are accurate we shall actually see mid 50'sF tonight.
Alas. It will slowly come to an end as the week progresses. The climb in temps to the mid 80's, with humidity is to culminate in storms on Friday

[stargazer]

The spectacular thunderstorm last Friday night barely missed this area, though I had the interesting sight of watching lightning flash all around but seeing stars overhead.

There were 5 tornadoes in the area yesterday afternoon, a little unusual since one of the usual drivers (heat) wasn't really present. But there was plenty of moisture in the air and spin aloft. They were determined later to be EF-1.

One of them went through a small town near the state park we'd been visiting just hours before. No injuries have been reported yet.

The storm then moved into western Wisconsin where more tornadoes damaged areas that had been hit just days before.

[Cleander]

This evening we were subjected to a somewhat vehement thunderstorm which managed to cause an hour-long power outage... which in turn caused us to have to devour an undercooked roast (that had unfortunately been sitting in the oven when the lights went out) in order to keep it from going to waste. Eating underdone roast in the dark isn't my idea of a fun night, but I'll admit it was interesting!

[aileth]

When I was growing up, we quite frequently had power outages, Cleander, (we were reasonably remote, and drivers seemed to have an affection for the utility poles along the highway (or a heavy snowfall or thunderstorm would do it)). Then out would come the box of candles (after rushing to fill buckets and jugs of water); it became quite a pleasant tradition.

At least we had a wood cookstove for our food--was the roast still mooing when you ate it?

[Cleander]

At least we had a wood cookstove for our food--was the roast still mooing when you ate it?

No, it wasn't mooing; it was a pork roast, actually.



It just wouldn't stop squealing!!

[stargazer]

If summer weather was always like what we're having today and tomorrow, I'd be thrilled! Low humidity, highs around 75F/24C, with clear blue skies sometimes dotted with fair-weather cumulus clouds...

Earlier this week summer showed its uglier side, with extremely humid air leading to explosive thunderstorms, heavy rain, and hail. Here we only had a few minutes of pea-sized hail, but only a few miles away much larger hail was smashing car windows and damaging houses.

[waggawerewolf27]

You could try our winter weather, in its last month. Really cold, down to 2 degrees Celsius this morning at 6.00am, but there is more than a hint of spring in the air. The midday temperatures, however go up sometimes as high as 25C, though yesterday it was only 20C. The wattle has bloomed, though not the orange blossom, yet. Two months ago our tree produced these wonderful oranges, many of them looking perfect, a large juicy variety, a freebie from our pet orange tree. We gave them away to charity.

It is a good time to check the plumbing & ensure there are no leaking taps. We are on level 2 water restrictions & we have to dismantle our old swimming pool, still half-full of water, despite emptying it entirely last August.